News From BotCon 2006 Voicing the Beast Wars Panel

Among the many intersting panels at BotCon 2006 was the Voicing the Beast Wars Panel. This panel featured Blu Mankuma, Scott McNeil, Richard Newman, and Pauline Newstone. The panel proved to be rather interesting.

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Summary

- Mankuma spoke about how enjoyable playing contrasting characters in “War Planets” and “Beast Wars” was. He enjoyed playing such a beautifull character as Tigatron.

- Newman mentioned that the powes that be decided his voice was to reconizablle to do Tankorr.

- McNeil said Beast Wars was his favorite project because of the deep and complex character writing, and "never since" has another North American animated show come close.

- Newman siad he was 'more drawn to the shows weve worked on (Beast Wars/Machines), We don’t really get to see the finished product when were working. Just animated mouths'.

- Newman recalled the recording sessions for Beast Wars/Machines as having the feel of a radio drama - contrasted with the solo studio dub for Cybertron, on which he admits not even knowing all of his co-stars.

- Both said they haven’t been contacted about voicing for the movie.

- All four will be back for another "Voicing the Beast Wars" panel Saturday afternoon