BEAST WARS!

In 1995, I remember finding what at first seemed like a bad idea: animals that turned into robots. It seemed like something out of a Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers plot. They kind of looked like Lion King figures in their animal modes. The basic red scales around a yellow-green eye with the toy in the blister pack located there was all I could look at for a few moments before I realized that these were licensed Transformers from Hasbro. Bwah? Fleshy animal modes into animals? No way...

But then I happened to see the cartoon show on the day it debuted and it was flipping fantastic. 

The series was great. It was always the Maximals trying to get home from a pre-historic Earth while trying to stop the evil Predacons led by Megatron; who took his name from the G1 Megatron. Four three wonderful seasons of CGIness, we saw the likes of Optimus Primal, Cheetor, Rattrap, Rhinox, Dinobot with some additions fight Megatron, Terrorsaur, Waspinator, and a couple more. It was a series where the good guys were often outnumbered by the bad guys; but the casts were both kept small.

Sadly, it came to an end for the next post's topic.