There will be seven DVD volumes to be released in the Beast Wars Returns. The first DVD, Vol. 1 goes on sale Thursday November 25, 2004. There after they will be released as single volumes on sale schedule. All seven-volume releases will be offered by JIENE-on entertainment in two formats: DVD (GNBA-1080) price-including-tax 5,775 JPY or on VHS (GNVS-2061) price-including-tax 6,825 JPY.

The Vol. 1 DVD will include four episodes including: "legendary revival", "wild breaking", "the old wound of love", and "the transformation of an earnest wish."

Beastwars Returns Vol. 2 is 12 / 22 is scheduled for released on December 22nd. Episode details coming soon.

There will also be a special DVD box set that include the 7 volume set in specially made box. The set will include things like audio commentary with the and the members of a voice acting cast including: Director Iwanami, the people from child Yasutake, Katsuhei Yamaguchi, and the Takagi are mentioned in VOL1!

Starting on November 20th, ToyRUs Japan will be releasing Beast Wars Returns (aka Beasts Machines in the USA) toys in their stores and online at http://www.toysrus.co.jp/. Its not know at this time what toys will be availble, but we have already seen promos with the Blast Punch Primal figure shown already.

Transformers fans in Japan will be able to tune into the Beast Wars Returns show on TV starting in December 2004, and running through to January 2005. The show will be availbe on the Takarand network every week on at the following times:

We also have some preliminary information about the voice actors:

Convoy - Takehito Koyasu
Cheetor - Wataru Takagi
Rattrap - Katsuhei Yamaguchi
Blackarachnia - Yuzuki Ono
Megatron - Shigeru Chiba