Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
I have the previous Shout Factory release of the The Complete Transformers: Generation One Matrix boxset and GI Joe and it’s one of the gems of my DVD collection. Once I learned that Shout Factory was doing a Beast Wars: The Complete Series set, I was ecstatic. Shout Factory sold them during BotCon and I had to buy a set. I didn’t buy Rhino’s boxsets years ago so I can’t compare the releases’ quality.
I watched the first two episodes to see the quality and it’s perfect. The video isn’t as crisp as I’d like but it’s watchable. The audio is fantastic, which I think the series hinges on. All the voice acting, music, and sound effects sound amazing. The animation holds up really well considering where technology was at in CGI animation for television.
The bonus features are:
-Maximize! Creating a New Breed of Transformers Featurette
-Remembering The Spark Featurette
-Original Making of Beast Wars featurette
-Original Character Models
-Art Gallerys
There doesn’t seem to be a lot of bonus features for Beast Wars. Then I realized that there are only eight discs compared to the Generation One boxset with 16 discs, which makes sense given its size and number of episodes.
Remember The Spark documentary is the most interesting of the bunch. Bob Forward and Larry DiTillio talk about creating the Beast Wars mythology. It’s quite interesting to learn about how Forward and DiTillio didn’t know much about Transformers mythology and using old Transformers newsgroups to pull information. “The Great War” that was mentioned wasn’t originally the war between Autobots and Decepticons. Hasbro wasn’t even sure when/where the series took place so Bob Forward and Larry DiTillio made the world very vague and could change it as the series went on.
One of the other bonus features is the original character models, which shows Mainframe’s first attempt in animating the characters. It’s quite cool to see how they went from crude deisgns into the designs we all know and love.
The boxset also includes a small reprint of Transformers: Timeline’s Dawn of Future's Past comic, which takes place before the Beast Wars series where Megatron steals the Golden Disk and the Maximals chasing after him. It’s a fun comic.
I watched Beast Wars when it aired but there are a few episodes I still haven’t seen. I can’t wait to discover them over the summer. It’s a great series and a wonderful release for $50. I hope that this boxset does well enough so Shout Factory can release more Transformers sets.
Counterpunch wrote:FP sure does provide some F'd up head.
LiKwid wrote:How does this stack up to the season 1 set? Will the season 2 set be relased the same was Sea 1? Ugggh I wish I would have known about the complete series..I would have held off on the Season 1 set..
Counterpunch wrote:FP sure does provide some F'd up head.
Sabrblade wrote:Those special features are way more than anything Rhino ever gave us with their Beast Wars DVDs. Though, it must be confessed that those original character models were actually carried over from the Rhino DVD release of Beast Wars season 2. And, I'd be willing to bet that the Forward/DiTillio interviews were also carried over from the Rhino season 1 DVD set (unless it was one interview with the two of them together, instead of two interviews with one for each like what Rhino did).
...Also something none of my VHS tapes of recorded TV episodes had. I don't remember the Beast Wars end credits being like that.xyl360 wrote:A nice little bonus is that at the end of some of the episodes it does show the original credits from the broadcast which was a split screen of credits on the right and animation from the show on the left, something none of the episodes in the Rhino release had.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:This looks to be the superior release over the Rhino DVDs. Great review, Supreme Convoy.Those special features are way more than anything Rhino ever gave us with their Beast Wars DVDs. Though, it must be confessed that those original character models were actually carried over from the Rhino DVD release of Beast Wars season 2. And, I'd be willing to bet that the Forward/DiTillio interviews were also carried over from the Rhino season 1 DVD set (unless it was one interview with the two of them together, instead of two interviews with one for each like what Rhino did).
The season 1 featurette is terrible. The second one isn't much better but it at least has the Forward/DiTillo interviews from the Rhino set intercut. The original one filmed back in 90s during the making season 1 is the best of the bunch.Though, two special features that the Rhino DVDs had that Shout! Factory appearently did not carry over would be the deleted scene from "Nemesis Part 2" and the full animatic of the same episode.
Those should have been included.All these new special features and the included comic make this set a winner for me. I'm gonna be double dipping on this, efen though's still got the Rhino releases.
Supreme Convoy wrote:LiKwid wrote:How does this stack up to the season 1 set? Will the season 2 set be relased the same was Sea 1? Ugggh I wish I would have known about the complete series..I would have held off on the Season 1 set..
Judging by how Shout packaged the boxset, Season One is in it's own DVD case while Season Two & Three share one case.
Master Renegade wrote:Have they fixed the episode order in Season 1? Or have they still screwed up the sequence of episodes 9 and 11 by putting "The Probe" before "A Better Mousetrap?"
Sabrblade wrote:Also, does this set include the commercial bumpers? That was something missing from the Rhino sets that I do like and miss.
Dr. Heavy B wrote:does this set:
A) Have the original longer season 1 opening
B) Have the original season 3 opening that isn't basicly a copy/paste of season 2
Cyberstrike wrote:I'm really disappointed by the special features. The originanl featurette and the comic are the only good things (and the comic is OK at best) in this set. The rest are 2 crappy new featurettes, a bunch of 3D computer character models, and a bunch of character art on characters that never made into the series.
Combined with the same picture and sound quailty as the Rhino versions, no deleted scene, no animatic of Nemesis pt. 2, no bumpers, no audio commentaries, and no Beast Wars commercials. It's not worth paying more than $40 for.
Supreme Convoy wrote:I've given up hope for commentaries for Transformers and GI Joe as there hasn't been any for the previous DVDs. It would be nice but I'm not expecting them. Especially with potential future releases like Beast Machines, Robots in Disguise, etc as they don't seem to screaming for commentaries.
NemesisMonkeySupreme wrote:Actually the original Beast Machines DVD release has commentaries on S1Ep3 and S2Ep12-13, so you never know. I imagine it's more about cost (gotta pay for people's time) than that there's nothing to comment on…
Sabrblade wrote:Also, does this set include the commercial bumpers? That was something missing from the Rhino sets that I do like and miss.
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