Transmetal_Megatron.jpg/revision/latest?cbx3d20120228204122' alt='Transformers: Beast Wars Online' title='Transformers: Beast Wars Online' />Beast Wars Transformers toyline Transformers Wiki. Easily the most radical move ever made by Hasbro in Transformers history, Beast Wars Transformers abandoned over a decades worth of familiar trappings, to drastically re work the franchise in order to save it from a second and likely final cancellation. Now the robots in disguise turned into organic animals. The classic factions were even replaced with the new Maximals and Predacons. The initial reaction from the early online fandom was less than welcoming. The reaction from the far larger kid market, however, was strong sales the likes Transformers hadnt seen in a long time. Backed by a CGI animated cartoon, Beast Wars basically saved Transformers, and has become a beloved piece of the lines history. OAFE action figure reviews buy the toys, not the hype. Overview. With sales of the Generation 2 toyline proving unremarkable, Hasbro faced a choice end the Transformers brand for a second time, or drastically revamp the concept. They chose the second option, handing the reigns over to their newly acquired Kenner division. While beast mode Transformers had been around sincedayone, those were robotic beasts. Beast Wars characters took on the appearance of fully organic creatures, which also affected their robot mode looks while there were metal parts, the designs were much more rounded and organic in shape if not texture. Faces tended towards the bestial or just straight up inhuman, even moreso with the first year toyss secondary Mutant Heads. The old factions were replaced with Maximals and Predacons, with new faction symbols, though HasbroKenner werent prepared to completely abandon everything classic the new factions were led by new iterations of Optimus and Megatron, though their appearances were heavily altered. Transformers was still part of the toylines title, but it was shrunk down and placed below the huge, jagged Beast Wars logo. AOm_vUHeQ/0.jpg' alt='Transformers: Beast Wars Online' title='Transformers: Beast Wars Online' />The packaging too was distinctly organic, with red scaly skin as the backdrop, and a massive reptilian eye under the bubble for carded figures. The initial waves even used a craggy, rock like plastic bubble, though that was quickly replaced by a more normal rounded bubble. While these aesthetic changes were initially shocking to fans used to the classic series, the line had many features that got fans to warm up to it in short order. Watch Beast Wars Transformers 19961999 full episodes online. Other name Galaxy Monster Wars Synopsis Two spaceships, one manned by benevolent Maximal. Beast Wars took the popular features of a handful of Generation 2 toys and made them standards across the entire line. Heavy use of ball joints gave the figures unprecedented degrees of articulation, often greater than that of the normal non transforming action figures of the time. Robot mode weapons were either part of the toys alternate mode, or at least stored inside them rather than needing to be set aside and more easily lost. Both of these features would become standards for basically every Transformers line to follow. Another now ubiquitous line wide move was the introduction of a standard system of price points, dictated by a toys size, not its gimmicks. Beast Wars began with 5 Basics, 1. Deluxes, 1. 5 Megas, and 2. Ultras, each size class getting physically larger, and packing more and more play features into the toy. Ultra class Optimus Primal is friggin loaded with stuff. Though prices would fluctuate over the years due to inflation or rising production costs, the basic outline of the system continues to be used today. Beast Wars was an undeniable success, routinely making high sales marks through most of its life, according to toy magazines like. Tomarts remember when print magazines existed about this hobby. It typically hovered in the top five best selling toy lines each month, mostly bested by the newly revived Star Wars line, the still strong Power Rangers and the massive rise of toys based on professional wrestling, occasionally popping into the top three places. In fact, when Hasbro elected to revamp the franchise before it could go stale, leading to the direct sequel, same main cast having Beast Machines toyline, they also kept Beast Wars around in a smaller capacity, with a handful of new products and some recolors of classic characters. Hasbro Beast Wars toyline. The first year of the line was a shocker to fans, both for its drastic aesthetic change from what came before, and its technicaldesign changes that gave the toys far more play value. Basic class toys all have a spring loaded one step autotransformation. Deluxe and larger toys all have a secondary Mutant Head to change their robot mode appearance. Basic class. Deluxe class. Mega class. Wave 1. Polar Claw. Scorponok. Ultra class. Wave 1. The second year of the line was primarily a refinement of the first, though every class got changed in some broad strokes way. The Basic toys dropped the spring loaded autotransformation in favor of more complex manual conversions. The Mutant Heads feature was dropped from the larger size classes save for the old mod redecosretools, of course. Instead of hidden mini animal partners, this year the Mega class toys had extra attack modes that revealed new play gimmicks. The Ultra class toys are not super huge robots, but teams of three smaller robots who combine into a super huge robot. These were also the first new mold combiner toys in the US at least since 1. A new line wide minor gimmick was added, the energon chips which were basically just the old faction symbolrubsigns. Basic Beasts. Deluxe Beasts. Mega Beasts. Ultra Teams. Micro. Verse. Part of Hasbros short lived multi property micro play line before they swallowed Galoob, these slightly above Deluxe size beasts open up into playsets for the micro figures included. Arachnid w Megatron RazorbeastOrcanoch w Optimus Primal TarantulasExclusives. Fuzors Transmetals. This year, the line basically split into two sub groups. The normal beasts became Fuzors, robots whose beast modes were mashups of two different animals, leading to some fanciful creatures. Fuzors were limited to the Basic and Deluxe price points. The rest of the line was made up of the Transmetals, Beast Wars turned inside out robotic animals with fleshy inner robot parts. Further, the animal modes also had a third pseudo vehicle form, revealing thrusters or wheels or the like. These modes ended up largely replacing any other gimmicks in the Deluxe class Transmetals, leaving things like spring loaded missiles to the larger size classes. Basic Fuzors. Deluxe Fuzors. Deluxe Transmetals. Mega Transmetals. Ultra Transmetals. Depth Charge. Rampage. Super Transmetals. Optimal Optimus. VHS packs. Exclusives. 19. 99 Transmetals 2. This year was dominated by the Transmetals 2, where the beast bits and bot bits ended up in a mangled, monstrous, asymmetrical amalgamation of torn skin and jutting metal blades. The energon chips were replaced by spark crystals, colored glass domes with foil embossed faction symbols inside. Basic Transmetals 2. Deluxe Transmetals 2. Mega Transmetals 2. Ultra Transmetals 2. Fox Kids Deluxe Classics. Celebrating the move to the Fox Kids programming block, a series of special redecos were made available to get classic show characters back on shelves. Initial Hasbro solicitations gave the toys power up style descriptors, but these did not make it to their final packaging. Exclusives. 20. 002. Deluxe Beasts. 20. Deluxe assortment featured a mixture of Fox Kids branded redecoes, with large NEW call outs, and Mutants, which sported a unique Mutant Beast Wars logo. Exclusives. Takara Beast Wars Super Lifeform Transformers toyline. You left a piece out This article is a stub and is missing information. You can help Transformers Wiki by expanding it. Post Beast Wars releases. While Generation 1 is the undisputed king of the post series remake, Beast Wars clocks in at a pretty respectable second place, even having a few mini lines dedicated to it even when you discount its direct sequel. Beast Wars 1. 0th Anniversary 2. If you build it, they will play. Dinobots Wikipedia. Dinobots are a type of character in the fictional. Transformers Universe. The Dinobots group consists of several subgroups of robots, each of whose transformed mode is that of a dinosaur or similar prehistoric animal. Dinobots are referred to as Dinotrons in the Japanese version, and Dinobots ,Dainobotto in the Japanese dub of Transformers Animated. They were named among the top selling toys in 1. Playthings magazine. Transformers Generation 1editDinobots. The five original Dinobots. Publication information. Publisher. Marvel Comics, Devils Due Publishing, IDW Publishing. First appearanceS. O. S. Dinobots October 2. Created by. Hasbro. In story information. BasesThe Ark. MembersGrimlock. Slag. Sludge. Snarl. Swoop. The Dinobots are a group of Transformers, part of the Autobot faction. Their origins and abilities vary from one version of Transformers to the next, but they are generally depicted as powerful Autobots capable of sustaining heavy damage and wielding heavy firepower against their foes. They are the only known Autobot groupother than the Aerialbotscapable of flight in robot mode, a trait they share with the Decepticons. They are always portrayed as fiercely independent, and are prone to diverge from the main group of Autobots to pursue their own agenda. All Dinobots names except Grimlock begin with the letter S. Download Film Back To The Sea. Animated serieseditThe TransformerseditThe Dinobots in the original Transformers cartoon were built on Earth by the Autobots Wheeljack and Ratchet. Seismic activity near the Ark resulted in Ironhides discovery of dinosaur bones, and Wheeljack was inspired to build the dinosaur based Transformers Grimlock, Slag, and Sludge, collectively called the Dinobots. They were incapable of any cognitive reasoning, and even failed their first simple task assigned by Ratchet when activated as seen in S. O. S. Dinobots. 5 They immediately turn on the Autobots like wild animals, and nearly destroyed the Ark, forcing Optimus Prime to order their destruction. Wheeljacks magnetic inducer was the only thing that stopped them. Being nearly indestructible, the next alternative was to seal them away forever, deactivated. That same day the Autobots were caught off guard by a Decepticon ambush. Their friends having been captured and on the verge of destruction, Wheeljack makes a snap decision and installs the upgrades to the Dinobots brains just before sending them in to their initial engagement against the Decepticons. Upon their arrival and subsequent victory over the Decepticons, Optimus Prime agrees that the Dinobots shall remain among them. The Dinobots were the cartoon series first sub group of Transformers and made their first appearance in episode eight, S. O. S. Dinobots. Unlike all other sub groups that were introduced later in the series with the exception of the Insecticons, the Dinobots did not have the ability to combine and form one giant robot, but instead were designed to attack separately but as a unit using their strength and tremendous size to their advantage. Each Dinobot is roughly a third the size of a combiner, and together as a team they could at least challenge a combiner. This was first seen in the last episode of season one, episode sixteen, Heavy Metal War7 when the Dinobots faced the newly built Constructicons merged form, the Devastator. Each Dinobot has a different attack method and array of weaponry, but are most powerful and effective when in their dinosaur forms, using their build to their advantage. Slag is a Triceratops and favors a deadly frontal charge Sludge an Apatosaurus, with being so heavy, favors making earthquakes Snarl is a Stegosaurus and as such, favors using his dangerous spiked tail Grimlock, being a T Rex, favors any way to get his jaws on an opponent and Swoop, a Pteranodon, favors aerial attacks. The Dinobots were frequently given the task of sorting out situations such as that, and other tasks the Autobots were incapable of handling themselves, like forces of nature, which would otherwise destroy any normal Autobot such as giant tidal waves and massive earthquakes, seen in The Ultimate Doom Part 2 Search. Day of the Machines9 Torq IIIs mechanical drone army, and Nergils magnetic disfunction ray in Atlantis, Arise9 as a few shining examples during the series. Grimlock, the Commander of the Dinobots, noted as having no weaknesses save for arrogance. Slag is extremely rash in action, and Sludge is slow both physically and mentally. Optimus Prime later commissioned Wheeljack and Ratchet to build Snarl and Swoop to aid the Autobots. Megatron devises a plan for Soundwave to discover their weaknesses in War of the Dinobots. Upon finding out, each ones greatest weakness lie in their individual character flaw. With lies, Megatron convinces them to turn against the Autobots, allowing them to steal an unstable meteorite. They nearly kill Optimus Prime upon arrival at the meteorite landing zone. Only with their combined strength can they manage to defeat their former leader. After realizing that, despite their best efforts to destroy him, Grimlock himself may not be the stronger of the two and spares him. Much to the dismay of Megatron, Prime is brought alive to his camp and warns of the instabilities in the meteorite, and is scoffed at by Megatron. Only when it explodes and Optimus saves Grimlock, does he reject the lies told by Megatron. Grimlock is outraged having been manipulated by him, into fighting such a good leader, Optimus Prime. Even risking his own life to save them, despite the fact of having been nearly killed by them in battle earlier. Megatron fled in terror when confronted by Grimlocks rage. He then in turn apologized, in earnest, for his jealousy towards Optimus Prime asking for forgiveness. This is the one and only time in the series he acknowledges Optimus Primes superior leadership skills. From that episode forward, resentment grew among the Dinobots, as stated by Grimlock himself in Atlantis, Arise when asked to rescue Optimus Prime and the others after Nergil has used his magnetic disfunction ray on them. Dinobots are virtually indestructible in their dinosaur mode. Their robot modes on the other hand, are not. Only Decepticon Combiners could stand against the Dinobots in dino mode. They were defeated only once by the Decepticons in Desertion of the Dinobots Part 1. Due to their arrogance, and a boasting Grimlock, they converted to robot mode and were taken by surprise by Megatron, whom they believed to have defeated. It required Megatron and Skywarp, destroying 5 airline jets filled with jet fuel at once, with them at ground zero to do it though. In every other instance, where the non combining Decepticons faced the Dinobots, they were easily defeated. After consequently being rebuilt, the Dinobots dissention came to a culmination. When requested to return to immediate action, Grimlock snapped, absolutely refusing to do anything else for the Autobots. He sternly said goodbye, and left with the other dinobots in tow. They eventually ventured to Cybertron in Desertion of the Dinobots Part 2. Where they end up enslaved mining Cybertonium, a mineral vital to Cybertronians operational function, for the Decepticons, by having their personality chips disconnected by Shockwave. Swoop was the only one to have escaped imprisonment, due in fact to his assigned surveillance mission. Luckily the persistent Spike Witwicky and Carly Witwicky although only dating at this point, with the help of Swoop were able to rescue them. They were easily convinced to help the Autobots obtain the Cybertonium they needed, and return to Earth to rejoin the autobots permanently. Subsequently, for the rest of the series they are rarely seen in their robot modes. Grimlock is seen once on Menonia during Season 3, but was never shown transforming into robot mode, only briefly being in robot mode for about 2 seconds in Madmans Paradise.