Its not all playtime over at Takara, Japan. Most recently the cameras have been rolling on Takara's very own mobile cable channel, TAKARAND. The big news here is Beast fans in Japan will finally get to see Beast Machines in language! The show will go under the Japanese translated name of "Beast Wars Returns" and is set to debut in 2004. Check out the site for more info HERE.
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Re: Beast Machines Coming to Japan 2004 (Score: 1) by entropicana on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 @ 07:38:45 AM
For the first time ever, I feel sorry for Japanese Transformers fans.
Please, don't hold it against us! It's all Skir's fault!
Re: Beast Machines Coming to Japan 2004 (Score: 1) by teknoskull on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 @ 05:13:55 PM
I will no longer grace this site with my presence.
Now how the heck do I delete myself from this board, cause I don't even want my name associated with it.
Re: Beast Machines Coming to Japan 2004 (Score: 1) by maxconvoy on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 @ 08:46:56 PM
I don't feel sorry for the Japanese, I just want to hear them rant about this disgraceful show.
Beast Machines... HA! What a crap!
Re: Beast Machines Coming to Japan 2004 (Score: 1) by entropicana on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 @ 10:43:42 PM
I seriously doubt Takara will make all-new molds for the show, even if it turns out to be popular, which is doubtful. Beast Wars Metals bombed over there, and the only toys made for it were Japanese re-paints of the same figures we had.
Possibly, they might do repaints of the BM characters... it might be interesting to see the mega-size Tankorr in show colors. But new molds? Not gonna happen.
As for appreciating the story... I'm not even going to try to sum up everything that was wrong with Beast Machines. The debate would rage for weeks and in the end would give me nothing but a migraine.
Re: Beast Machines Coming to Japan 2004 (Score: 1) by J_Flare on Thursday, September 25, 2003 @ 12:21:44 AM
You know, I totally agree. A lot of fans say Beast Machines was a masterpiece. You know what? They're lapdogs affiliated with Hasbro. Beast Machines was the most boring Transformers series ever. The action was dull, the Maximals were fugly, the plot was crap and too intricate, the whole project was done hastily as a means of ripping children off their earned allowances. And the toys --- garbage on the literal side! The paintjobs were horrible and not even Supreme Cheetor was show accurate!
I feel sorry for Japanese people. I don't think Takara will redesign any of the toys. It wouldn't be worthwhile. I think the only reason Beast Machines is coming out in Japan is because of Transformers Universe.
Despite that, I feel glad Beast Machines will debut in Japan. Why? You'll just have to wait.
Re: Beast Machines Coming to Japan 2004 (Score: 1) by Rah-digga on Monday, October 06, 2003 @ 12:33:57 PM
Honestly, yeah Beast Machines was by far the worst story telling of the Transformers saga...made in the US that it. But come on, the Japanese episodes were horrible. The stories were juvinal, idiotic and with respect to the history of the first few years of the Sunbow produced American toys, completely off. If you take masterforce, they completely omit Transformer history. At least Beast Wars was faithful to the accounts on the Ark and Beast Machines (for it's horrible theme of mixing the organic with the machine) was a continuation and the little homages to cybertron were cool. All in all, Transformer episodes should be told by done this side of the Pacific. No offense to my Japanese animators, the story lines are garbage. RID sucked, Amada Sucks, I'm sure Energon will suck, Beast wars neo, and all that crap sucked. Victory, Masterforce, Headmasters, Zone, Crap, crap, crap. Here's hoping that after the live action movie takes off, a US animation house will acquire the rights, higher some quality writers and produce a better cartoon series. Hell here's a thought; In the New live action movie, Optimus DOESN'T die. I can live with that!
Re: Beast Machines Coming to Japan 2004 (Score: 1) by Tformers811(BeastMachines4life@Seedsofthefuture.com) on Thursday, October 09, 2003 @ 01:07:26 AM
Beast machines actually had some intelligence involved. It was a cartoon that made you use your brain. That is one thing about Japanese they are smarter at a younger age so they can grasp the cartoon. We dont give our kids in USA much credit so we let them focus on immature cartoons like the new Transformer episodes. Omg Have you seen how gay the Armada series is. The Toys might be nice but the cartoon is retarded. Not only was the Beast Machines an Awesome CGI Cartoon but they sounded intelligent. I think Japan will be able to grasp it better then we did. It was more focused towards kids with intelligence. Had a lot of technical words and phrases. I have just finished watching them again. All 26 episodes I think it was better then the first season of the Beast Wars. I just purchased the Beast Wars. I seem not to want to go back and watch it. I have been tryin to force myself too. I like the storyline though but I am spoiled by the Beast Machines graphics. Good Job Beast Machines in Japan
Re: Beast Machines Coming to Japan 2004 (Score: 1) by Curt_1300 on Sunday, January 04, 2004 @ 02:17:09 PM
This isn't a good day for the Japanese. I truly HATE BM, the plot was just plain......Stupid! In my view BM spit on every show that came before it. I personally don't count it's existence in the timeline. The fact that Megatron II magically , escape and ruin all of Seibertron (Cybertron) is ridiculous. I do fell sorry for all the Japanese people that have to suffer this indecency!
Re: Beast Machines Coming to Japan 2004 (Score: 1) by Effect on Tuesday, April 06, 2004 @ 04:34:35 AM
Honestly I love Beast Machines. I thought it was a great continuation of the Generation 1 storyline, as was Beast Wars. When it comes to writing Transformers the US series have always had the better story telling. Things were at least aimed at kids and adults that were fans of the show as children. They recognized that the fans have grown or were grown and kids are smarter now at younger ages then they were a few years ago. Its a shame Beast Machines isn't appreciated enough here in the US. I'd much rather have quality shows such as Beast Wars and Beast Machines then crap like RID and Armada. Energon seems to be shaping up but then again we've only had 3 or so episodes and Armanda was decent in the very beginning as well. The Beast saga have Transformer go through some real character development and I loved that. The organic and spritual aspects were quite refreshing and original as well.
I just hope that Beast Machines appreciated over in Japan the way some of the fans over here appreciate it.
Re: Beast Machines Coming to Japan 2004 (Score: 0) by Visitor on Tuesday, July 13, 2004 @ 03:51:24 PM
To the person who said ALL Japanese Transformers series sucked. You're kinda wrong.
I've WATCHED Zone , and I happened to like it , I agree that RID sucked , but it's predecessor , Car Robot , wasn't TOO bad (but it still sucked nontheless... as for Beast Machines , when that aired , I believe I only watched one full episode,and stopped watching after that ....it was dull , had ugly character deisgns , and a ridiculous plot. , and it just didn't have the appeal that Beast Wars had. Of course , G 1 is still probably the best (and I do indeed hope we get Headmasters , but they better leave Scramble City in Japan , I watched it , and I'm GLAD it was never concluded!)
I have on question though , were Beast Wars and Beast Machines set BEFORE G1 or afterwards? I never could tell because of certain things (BW being on prehistoric earth , the Ark not being reactivated yet , yet Ravage had been rebuilt and they said the Great War had ended , etc. )
and I need this cleared up...
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