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Beast Wars: Transformers - Shout! DVD Producer's Tweets Chirp a Beast-ly Song
A pair of Twitter posts makes it pretty clear that new DVDs are in the works
Posted by David Lambert
2/08/2011



Following the classic '80s "G1" Transformers animated program came the 1996 series Beast Wars: Transformers, using GCI animation produced by Mainframe Entertainment (the folks behind the earlier CGI TV production, ReBoot). Tied to the continuity of the original show, Beast Wars: Transformers ran for 3 seasons and was followed up in 1999 by two seasons of Beast Machines: Transformers.

Shout! Factory has recently released DVDs of G1 Transformers, and after they picked up the rights to ReBoot there were a number of fans hoping that they would pick up the rights to Beast Wars: Transformers as well. The show was released on DVD before, from 2001-2004 by Rhino in the USA and Alliance in Canada. Those are long discontinued and hard to obtain, though, so fans who missed out have been looking for re-releases of the show. Now it appears that Shout! might have indeed negotiated with Hasbro to pick up the DVD rights to this series! A pair of Twitter posts by award-winning Shout! Factory DVD producer Brian Ward give us the hints we need to connect those dots. Here are his tweets from earlier today; the second one from about an hour ago:
Got back from a meeting where I learned of several titles going on the schedule. My 10- & mid-20s-year old selves are jumping w/joy.


So...uh...who knows a little something about TRANSFORMERS: BEAST WARS? Anybody?
Now, the list of new titles might not have included this particular show, of course...it's possible that this one was already "on the books." Either way, it's great to know that this is in the works, and we couldn't wait to pass it along. What about Beast Machines: Transformers from Shout! as well? We honestly can't imagine that Hasbro and Shout! would negotiate for one, and not the other. We'll have to wait and see, though. Stay tuned for updates, as further developments occur! In the meantime, if you want to answer Mr. Ward's request for help, feel free to directly reply to his tweet on Twitter.


Taken from: http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Beast- ... z1DQdWne2P

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Beast-Wars-Transformers-DVDs-Planned/15006

[Sabrblade]

Unless they add in a whole bunch of awesome bonus content, I'll pass. I own the Rhino versions and (even with one episode of season 1 being place out of correct order), they're satisfactory enough.

[El Duque]

It's starting to look like Transformers: Beast Wars may be getting a Shout! Factory release. TVShowsOnDVD.com is reporting the following:

Following the classic '80s "G1" Transformers animated program came the 1996 series Beast Wars: Transformers, using GCI animation produced by Mainframe Entertainment (the folks behind the earlier CGI TV production, ReBoot). Tied to the continuity of the original show, Beast Wars: Transformers ran for 3 seasons and was followed up in 1999 by two seasons of Beast Machines: Transformers.

Shout! Factory has recently released DVDs of G1 Transformers, and after they picked up the rights to ReBoot there were a number of fans hoping that they would pick up the rights to Beast Wars: Transformers as well. The show was released on DVD before, from 2001-2004 by Rhino in the USA and Alliance in Canada. Those are long discontinued and hard to obtain, though, so fans who missed out have been looking for re-releases of the show. Now it appears that Shout! might have indeed negotiated with Hasbro to pick up the DVD rights to this series! A pair of Twitter posts by award-winning Shout! Factory DVD producer Brian Ward give us the hints we need to connect those dots. Here are his tweets from earlier today; the second one from about an hour ago:

Now, the list of new titles might not have included this particular show, of course...it's possible that this one was already "on the books." Either way, it's great to know that this is in the works, and we couldn't wait to pass it along. What about Beast Machines: Transformers from Shout! as well? We honestly can't imagine that Hasbro and Shout! would negotiate for one, and not the other. We'll have to wait and see, though. Stay tuned for updates, as further developments occur! In the meantime, if you want to answer Mr. Ward's request for help, feel free to directly reply to his tweet on Twitter.

[Ravage XK]

I hope they do a better job than the Beast Machines DVDs. My PS3 gets halfway through those disc and then refuses to play the rest. The only discs I have that do that.

[Lord Onixprime]

PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!

I only have the Rhino season 2 dvd set and I so want to get the whole series as I'm as big a beast fan as you can be. The old Rhino dvd sets are so expensive now too. I want this so bad.

[First-Aid]

ANOTHER re-re-release? Sunnuvabitch...Transformers may be the new Star Wars when it comes to re-re-releases. I'll stick to my Rhino version thanks.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Interesting... but like Sabrblade, I already own the Rhino versions.

[T-Macksimus]

Can't speak for everybody else here in the States, but I don't see where this series is all that hard to get a hold of. Yeah I had to do a little bit of driving around during the tail end of it's last DVD run (around 2005) but now that there are more stores like Best Buy and Borders saturating all of suburbia, that running around is a thing of the past. They're over-priced no matter where you find them but I've had no trouble locating them.

[Heavy B]

i have the rhino sets, but ill need to see the special features to decide. im def getting season 1 tho as "Spiders game" and "Call of the Wild" are scratched to hell and wont play (sad face).


oh man, how awesome would it be if they were released on blu-ray to...

[Rodimus2006]

I hope more than anything that Shout got RID i havent seen RID since it last aired on the Fox Box back on Fox that was like in 1999 or 2000 or so I forget.

I have my Rhino sets of Beast Wars along with the Generation 1 also I have my set of Beast Machines still.

I need RID to have the complete saga cause I have my sets of the Unicron Trilogy + Animated as well as Movies 1 & 2 and then 3 when it comes on DVD sometime in 2012.

That is if we survive 2012. I am getting my Reboots later this summer I found the release dates they are coming out later with seasons 1 & 2 I havent seen those since they last aired on Cartoon Network.

I am super excited for them I loved Hexicdecimal and Mega-Byte and Bob, Dot and Enzo.

I hope other TV shows get remade such as Megas XLR one of my favs that were done by CN but it never go finished. Then I also hope for remakes of Sailor Moon I only liked the Queen Beyeral Saga didnt care to much for the Heart one.

Be cool if they localize the Japanese sagas of Victory, The Headmasters, Super God Master Force and the Japanese Beast Wars I forget which it is called Neo or Beast II.

But I will most likely still re-buy my Beast Wars if they are indeed being re-done by Shout as my Rhino sets are starting to age as I have had them since release.