Dinobot had the best line in the entire godddamn series. "I prefer to beat my enemies the old-fashioned way: BRUTALLY!" It just never got better after that.
So Beast Wars, and honestly the entirety of Transformers is really funny because, while it is a Japanese line of toy, the lore and almost all the characters were created over in America. The original cartoon was produced in America then localized in Japan. Now... over in Japan Beast Wars got like... I guess the 4kids treatment is the best way to describe it. What was this honestly really dark(for a kid's show) sci-fi tale got turned into a comedy show full of fucking character rewrites and fourth wall jokes. Optim- no wait! Convoy! Yeah, Convoy wasn't the stoic leader of the Maximals, he was an old man who'd always be looking for his banana. Ratrap would always be "smelling" what the viewer was eating. AIR RAZOR GOT HER SEX CHANGED POWER RANGERS STYLE. She essentially was turned into Tigertron's protoge shonen as he was kind of like a wandering samurai, which honestly made the sub plot of her and Tigertron's romance kinda awkward. Megatron was turned from a cunning, charismatic villain to a shrieking oaf. Needless to say none of the Japanese fans liked it, and stupid rewrites like this have been going on to this day. I do believe that Transformers Prime got the real serious treatment it deserved however. To give the Japanese version some credit however, I do really like the opening theme, War War Stop It.
It's always a weird time listening to people speak glowingly of a show you haven't seen that sounds _terrible,_ even when they're talking about how awesome it is.
+Matt Lee Oddly enough, they left Star Wars alone. Maybe because the Communist broadcasting standards of Canada wasn't established back in the late 70's.
Beast War's fun fact: The writers couldn't for the life of them figure out Scorponok's character traits, so his personality changes from episode to episode with him sometimes being normal, talking in the third person, being the technology expert, and other times he spoke like he had pieces of his brain missing, the only consistent element was he was the only one who wouldn't betray Megatron....... because that is massively boring, this is why he never got a story beat for himself and was killed off and replaced with inferno who essentially fit the same role but had more personality, making Scorponok redundant and replaceable.
It's really weird that Woolie brought up the early 2000s Transformers anime shows since those are the ones I grew up on and I remember them very fondly, Jetfire was the shit!
The even bigger reveal for me in that episode was that BW Megatron was acting under orders from G1 Megatron, he sent him a video saying "Hey, you should totally go shoot Optimus in the face while he's sleeping". That was a better plot than he had in all 4 seasons of G1.
The stealth panther was in fact Ravage, as in Soundwave's cat. He was given a new form after the war and switched sides to become a spy for the maximals.
+Gyro's Steel Balls and Ball Breaker All we know is he did something REALLY evil to get that beast mode skin, and it does not involve him loving you, me or a happy family
The "panther" was Ravage *Sigh* Although the best reveal/moment in Beast Wars was when Megatron blew Optimus Prime's head off, and fans everywhere cheered! Until they chickened out of that for season three
The panther guy actually was Ravage, as in Soundwave's lackey from G1. He even turns into a casset tape to play some music for a big battle, that was one of the hypest moments in my life.
21:45 I remember there was actually a White Wolf that looked absolutely badass but it was one of those toys that never ended up being in the show, I remember really wanting it as a kid but never got it.
having rewatched the show recently, I gotta say, there is a high amount of cringy false memories going on in this video XD Cheetor never was into any other cheetah, Dinobot never cared that he didn't get a transmetal body, Scorpinok never became smart, and Tigerbots deal was not harming nature he was still fine with violence (until a real tiger he befriended died in the crossfire and for one episode was shaken up into briefly quitting the beat wars)
The original Beast Wars toys(meaning not the metalic ones) where the coolest looking transformers toys. When they were in animal form, they really looked like just animal toys. I remember I blew my friend's mind when I turned my T-rex into a sick robot.
Oh man, I have this game on my pc. I haven't played it in like 15 years. I never thought I would ever see it again, thank god I'm not the one playing it this time.
+JackgarPrime Um no, one of the moons was not real but actually a weapons that aliens would use to blowup energon deposits on the planet. The aliens only took the form of Unicron's head because they thought that would be a form that Optimus would fear and respect.
Adam Christopher Yes I remember what actually happened (hence by Except not really part), and it led into the whole Vox thing. But seeing the reveal of Unicron's head in that episode as a kid blew my fucking mind.
+Adam Christopher Prime is pretty great. But unfortunately its version of Unicron is by far the lamest interpretation. Not only is the "the core of the Earth is Unicron" thing dumb, but his design is AWFUL. He just looks like a big ugly wooden bug, barely even vaguely robot. And I like John Noble (Denethor in Lord of the Rings, voice of Scarecrow in Arkham Knight), but his voice didn't fit Unicron at all, especially when you're trying to live up to bassed-out Orson Welles.
Holy shit, I was not prepared for this level of nostalgia. I had this game back when I was a baby who didn't understand the difference between good and bad games, and I never got past the first level, but by god I just kept on trying.
I remember watching a show where there were animals that could turn into robots when I was a kid. Only NOW, after 17 years, do I know that this was what I watched. I had no idea what the show was called for some reason, until now.
This game LITERALLY was the bane of my childhood. So many fucking hours spent playing trying to actually progress in this game, only to be rewarded with more suffering.
I am surprised that literally everyone I know who played Portrait of Ruin did the 'Charlotte/Jonathan' thing. I found out I could 10 seconds into the game.
So Bumblebee was fake killing all his friends to get revenge for Optimus, but Megatron windigos are actually trying to kill them all? But what about Jazz? and Guitar Dad?
@16:30 Yes, it was Ravage. He was the original Decepticon reprogrammed into a Predacon. Also, fyi, Blackarachnia's design was based on an exotic dancer. And Dinobot's tail weapon wasn't a shield. It was more or less just a saw blade for chopping people up. Dinobot and all wave One toys were released Before the show came out, so they had to make the characters based off of those, which is why the spinning weapon was basically worthless in the show. :/ Also, Woolie, did you know Hasbro released a pretty decent Rhinox figure about a year so ago? You should get that. While all the Beast Wars info is coming back to them while they play this game, I'm just sitting with dang near encyclopedic knowledge of the show and toys, like a massive nerd, and I'm okay with it.
Woolie, did you know some of those toys made it into the Japanese Beast Wars anime. That's right, there was a japanese Beast Wars that ran and used some the toys that were never in the canadian show
Armaan Sethi Sorry, not that I know if. I was just referencing based off when I was a child and saw it on air with reruns of Beast Wars and Beast Machines that came afterwards.
+nemesisnick66 Exactly, I remember trying the desert level over and over again and never really accomplishing anything and eventually just gave up on it entirely. I recently found the disc for this game again but didn't feel like trying it out. According to wikipedia this game is pretty rare and wasn't even sold in my country even though I can remember going to the store to buy it with my dad.
Nice to see someone on the crew getting sick of Liam's shit too. Christ. It's a strange world when Pat's harping has become endearing, because he diffuses the situation by just saying he's an asshole, causing Matt to realize there's nothing to get upset about, but Liam _doesn't_ know he's a pain in the ass.
Dinobot had also a Samurai thing with him, i remember in the episode he died to protect the "humans" had a moment where he is meditating and the looking at his sword and i remember he also talk a lot about honor
I watched exactly 1 episode of this. The first, in fact. I stopped not because I hated it, but because I was too lazy to dig around for the second. I could tell it would be, for better or worse, interesting when Optimus Kong stood in front of Stonehenge and shouted the title.
I actually had an Optimus Primal toy. I thought it was some sort of Transformers animal rip-off/bootleg, though, until I learned Beast Wars is an actual Transformers series when I was, like, 12. Also "Beast Peace" sounds like the draft name for an unmade 3rd Beast Wars series.
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Dinobot had the best line in the entire godddamn series. "I prefer to beat my enemies the old-fashioned way: BRUTALLY!" It just never got better after that.
So Megatron literally transforms into Barney the Dinosaur in this game.
Astounding!
+The Gentlesaurian Velocidapper this reminds me of a puzzle...
Yeeeessss!
Barney if he was a shakespearean villain
So Beast Wars, and honestly the entirety of Transformers is really funny because, while it is a Japanese line of toy, the lore and almost all the characters were created over in America. The original cartoon was produced in America then localized in Japan. Now... over in Japan Beast Wars got like... I guess the 4kids treatment is the best way to describe it.
What was this honestly really dark(for a kid's show) sci-fi tale got turned into a comedy show full of fucking character rewrites and fourth wall jokes. Optim- no wait! Convoy! Yeah, Convoy wasn't the stoic leader of the Maximals, he was an old man who'd always be looking for his banana. Ratrap would always be "smelling" what the viewer was eating.
AIR RAZOR GOT HER SEX CHANGED POWER RANGERS STYLE. She essentially was turned into Tigertron's protoge shonen as he was kind of like a wandering samurai, which honestly made the sub plot of her and Tigertron's romance kinda awkward.
Megatron was turned from a cunning, charismatic villain to a shrieking oaf.
Needless to say none of the Japanese fans liked it, and stupid rewrites like this have been going on to this day. I do believe that Transformers Prime got the real serious treatment it deserved however. To give the Japanese version some credit however, I do really like the opening theme, War War Stop It.
"liam were not playing metal gear" fucking gold
+Snake PIiskan I love Matt
Fun fact: In Beast Wars, Megatron says "Yes" 166 times over the course of 3 seasons.
It's always a weird time listening to people speak glowingly of a show you haven't seen that sounds _terrible,_ even when they're talking about how awesome it is.
+Jeedy Jay ...it hasn't aged well, unfortunately. At least Reboot can get away with being in a computer world.
it's arguably one of the best transformers series and the bad cg just makes it more campy just look up how many times Megatron says yes.
***** And the one time he says no. Then again, he had a DAMN good reason for saying no...
+Jeedy Jay Awesome and terrible aren't mutually exclusive. Especially with kid's shows.
+Makunouchi Ippo I don't think it's even arguable. Beast Wars is far and away the best Transformers show, especially towards the end of the run.
I really love Matt's constant shitting on Liam's play-style in this.
Beast Wars was sick. DinoBot was my favorite out of all the generations. Remember when he went all Rambo and just strapped a bunch of guns on himself.
So was War of the Worlds called Planet Conflict in Canada?
+Teep war of the worlds isnt for children though.
No it was called Alien Attack
+Teep i wonder how they handled the various star wars cartoons up there
What's War of the Worlds? Ohhh, do you mean Worldies?
+Matt Lee Oddly enough, they left Star Wars alone. Maybe because the Communist broadcasting standards of Canada wasn't established back in the late 70's.
"It's good to be canadian." -said no one ever
+Pepsi Man "I invented being Canadian" Wolverine, 2012
Ahh Canada.....No one cares about you....
+Pepsi Man People say that when dealing with canadian cops
All Canada is is 3 hockey rinks surrounded by bears
"Said no one ever." So funny!1!!xDDDD
Liam:Matt run to the thing
Matt:No Liam a guy is shooting me,this isn't Metal Gear. Matt is the best
I can't believe that they didn't talk about the episode where Tarasor was taken over by the ghost of Starscream.
the dinobot sacrifice to save humans was such a great episode
Wow Platinum did a good job on the new Transformers game.
Beast War's fun fact: The writers couldn't for the life of them figure out Scorponok's character traits, so his personality changes from episode to episode with him sometimes being normal, talking in the third person, being the technology expert, and other times he spoke like he had pieces of his brain missing, the only consistent element was he was the only one who wouldn't betray Megatron....... because that is massively boring, this is why he never got a story beat for himself and was killed off and replaced with inferno who essentially fit the same role but had more personality, making Scorponok redundant and replaceable.
So... Star Wars is renamed Staries?
Holy fuck, I miss you Beast Wars!!!! Greatest version of Transformers, without question.
Thank Fuck it's not Ultra Dispair Girls.
+SquiboTheHomey We're safe from Liams horrible gun jumping and text mashing...for now.
+SquiboTheHomey inb4 UDG for tonights episode.
Can't wait to see you there bitching and crying.
+Terence Trinh we are not safe from him because he play 40 hours of ground zeros and its fine...
but I like that lets play more then unfinished metal gear game numba 5
The more you talk about it on unrelated videos, the clearer it becomes that you love it.
It's really weird that Woolie brought up the early 2000s Transformers anime shows since those are the ones I grew up on and I remember them very fondly, Jetfire was the shit!
The even bigger reveal for me in that episode was that BW Megatron was acting under orders from G1 Megatron, he sent him a video saying "Hey, you should totally go shoot Optimus in the face while he's sleeping". That was a better plot than he had in all 4 seasons of G1.
"It wasn't Ravage."
Woolie even lies about things he loves.
The stealth panther was in fact Ravage, as in Soundwave's cat. He was given a new form after the war and switched sides to become a spy for the maximals.
Megatron just transforms into Barney the Dinosaur.
Megatron, EXPLAIN.
Man, watching this travesty of a game makes me NOT want to watch Beast Wars again. ;-;
+Gyro's Steel Balls and Ball Breaker All we know is he did something REALLY evil to get that beast mode skin, and it does not involve him loving you, me or a happy family
The "panther" was Ravage *Sigh*
Although the best reveal/moment in Beast Wars was when Megatron blew Optimus Prime's head off, and fans everywhere cheered! Until they chickened out of that for season three
Mat 2015 "look how good my name is its based on an emotion like im from the fucking cobra unit" look what you've done you made Rage cry.
The panther guy actually was Ravage, as in Soundwave's lackey from G1. He even turns into a casset tape to play some music for a big battle, that was one of the hypest moments in my life.
Feels like Woolie was trying to troll them but got trolled fucking hard instead. And I enjoyed it
How the fuck are there "Urban" environments in Beasts Wars?
"Fucking Adam I told you not to get out of your corner; look what happened." -Developer board meeting for final shipment.
Lazy game developers
+Zanzibar Junker
"WE GOTTA SELL THESE ROBUT TOYS TO THE BLACK CHILDREN, DAMN IT!"
-Paul Marketing Nixon
+Life Is Crap I read this in the Tour Guide Nixon voice, probably because of the caps and the children.
+Zanzibar Junker No shut up, there was no time. It's fine, it's fiiiiiine
HOLY SHIT I remember watching an animal transformer show as a kid. I never thought I'd see this again.
21:45 I remember there was actually a White Wolf that looked absolutely badass but it was one of those toys that never ended up being in the show, I remember really wanting it as a kid but never got it.
Tokyo Jungle in my Mystery Box what is this
+zwolf2062 That rabbit over there is Muhammad.
+zwolf2062 I thought they were actually going to play Tokyo Jungle... >.>
AcedXXII i do this every Mystery Box for that reason 1st time it actually worked
Is that the script?
Man, Transmutate still gives me the willies today.
It's quite popular in 2024.
"Poor Mainframe"
WHEN'S SCARE GOD MOTHER LET'S WATCH
WHEN'S BAREE AND THE TREE MUSKETEARS
having rewatched the show recently, I gotta say, there is a high amount of cringy false memories going on in this video XD Cheetor never was into any other cheetah, Dinobot never cared that he didn't get a transmetal body, Scorpinok never became smart, and Tigerbots deal was not harming nature he was still fine with violence (until a real tiger he befriended died in the crossfire and for one episode was shaken up into briefly quitting the beat wars)
The original Beast Wars toys(meaning not the metalic ones) where the coolest looking transformers toys. When they were in animal form, they really looked like just animal toys. I remember I blew my friend's mind when I turned my T-rex into a sick robot.
An entire episode of reminiscing about Beast Wars? Best episode EVER!
God, Beast Wars was one of my favorite shows as a kid. Really underrated.
Oh man, I have this game on my pc. I haven't played it in like 15 years.
I never thought I would ever see it again, thank god I'm not the one playing it this time.
You forgot the craziest reveal of all, Woolie! The fucking moon is Unicron! (Except not really, it's weird)
+JackgarPrime Um no, one of the moons was not real but actually a weapons that aliens would use to blowup energon deposits on the planet. The aliens only took the form of Unicron's head because they thought that would be a form that Optimus would fear and respect.
Adam Christopher
Yes I remember what actually happened (hence by Except not really part), and it led into the whole Vox thing. But seeing the reveal of Unicron's head in that episode as a kid blew my fucking mind.
Jokerhamil That's a shame, because I think Transformers Primes was really good.
+Adam Christopher Prime is pretty great. But unfortunately its version of Unicron is by far the lamest interpretation. Not only is the "the core of the Earth is Unicron" thing dumb, but his design is AWFUL. He just looks like a big ugly wooden bug, barely even vaguely robot. And I like John Noble (Denethor in Lord of the Rings, voice of Scarecrow in Arkham Knight), but his voice didn't fit Unicron at all, especially when you're trying to live up to bassed-out Orson Welles.
They remember so much from such an old show. Pretty impressive.
This was LITERALLY the first game my family had, besides Mario teaches Typing, this is AMAZING. THANK YOU FOR PLAYING THIS.
David Kaye's 'Yeeeeeeeessss' was always my favourite part of the show.
AW MI GAWD BEAST WARS
LET'S GO
+Chad Serrant Scott McNeil, voice of the 90s.
Holy shit, I was not prepared for this level of nostalgia. I had this game back when I was a baby who didn't understand the difference between good and bad games, and I never got past the first level, but by god I just kept on trying.
0:48 I love that epic light and Matt's reaction
4:32 oh ITS HAPPENING
I remember watching a show where there were animals that could turn into robots when I was a kid. Only NOW, after 17 years, do I know that this was what I watched. I had no idea what the show was called for some reason, until now.
I'm so excited, cause a Transformers beat em up is coming out next week and its being made by Platinum!
I went nuts when I moved house recently and found all my Beast Wars toys.
it's been years since I searched the name of that show I had so many toys of it as a child. great memories. it's cool to see them again haha.
This game LITERALLY was the bane of my childhood. So many fucking hours spent playing trying to actually progress in this game, only to be rewarded with more suffering.
I am surprised that literally everyone I know who played Portrait of Ruin did the 'Charlotte/Jonathan' thing. I found out I could 10 seconds into the game.
The best part about this video? Being reminded that Shadow Raiders was a thing, and was awesome.
So Bumblebee was fake killing all his friends to get revenge for Optimus, but Megatron windigos are actually trying to kill them all? But what about Jazz? and Guitar Dad?
Man. I fucking love Beast Wars so fucking much. This show and Digimon were my childhood.
In regards to that ReBoot reboot, please allow me to quote Pat:
"I WOULD RATHER HAVE NOTHING!"
Oh god, I think I had a Scorpinok toy when I was a kid. Don't worry, I also had Rampage, Rhinox and Tigertron.
When i heard about woolie showing a game to matt i was expecting REBOOT
Man I love Mystery box so much I always get excited for them even if it's a bad game.
Nostalgia's hitting me like a wind. A GREAT BIOTIC WIND!
Cheetor wanting to bone a cheetah is like that joke from RID with Side Burn wanting to bone a car DX
is this animorfs all grown up? woolie would know this
It's good to be Canadian...
(Awkward Silence)
It is a pretty good show. It wasn't just in Canada, though. I watched it as a kid and lived in the states.
@16:30 Yes, it was Ravage. He was the original Decepticon reprogrammed into a Predacon.
Also, fyi, Blackarachnia's design was based on an exotic dancer.
And Dinobot's tail weapon wasn't a shield. It was more or less just a saw blade for chopping people up. Dinobot and all wave One toys were released Before the show came out, so they had to make the characters based off of those, which is why the spinning weapon was basically worthless in the show. :/
Also, Woolie, did you know Hasbro released a pretty decent Rhinox figure about a year so ago? You should get that.
While all the Beast Wars info is coming back to them while they play this game, I'm just sitting with dang near encyclopedic knowledge of the show and toys, like a massive nerd, and I'm okay with it.
Woolie, did you know some of those toys made it into the Japanese Beast Wars anime. That's right, there was a japanese Beast Wars that ran and used some the toys that were never in the canadian show
+GSDAkatsuki is there a sub for it ? I was always curious about that anime as a kid
Armaan Sethi Sorry, not that I know if. I was just referencing based off when I was a child and saw it on air with reruns of Beast Wars and Beast Machines that came afterwards.
I'm really glad the Zaibatsu love Beast Wars. For the longest time I was convinced that I was the only one.
When ever they talked about beast wars I had no idea what they were talking about but as soon as I saw that opening it came rushing back
damit now i wanna watch beast wars also i remember having this game as a kid i could never figure out how to beat a single level
+nemesisnick66 Exactly, I remember trying the desert level over and over again and never really accomplishing anything and eventually just gave up on it entirely. I recently found the disc for this game again but didn't feel like trying it out.
According to wikipedia this game is pretty rare and wasn't even sold in my country even though I can remember going to the store to buy it with my dad.
Canadian anime, a weapon to surpass the work of an enemy stand?
My eyes are drowning in awesomeness
I played this at my friend Andrew's house as a kid. It seemed fun then, but probably a lot of that was the allure of not owning it myself.
Nice to see someone on the crew getting sick of Liam's shit too. Christ.
It's a strange world when Pat's harping has become endearing, because he diffuses the situation by just saying he's an asshole, causing Matt to realize there's nothing to get upset about, but Liam _doesn't_ know he's a pain in the ass.
Man, this version is terrible, I at least had the PC version... which was also terrible.
+Griffin1171 I did too, I haven't touched that game in over 15 years.
is the content the same as this PS1 version?
TIME FOR THE COOLEST MOTHERFUCKING TRANSFORMERS IN HISTORY
Rampage's name was an homage to a G1 Transformer. LEARN THE LORE, MATT.
A disk worth snapping? DEMO DISK? FUNHAUS? The Best Friends won't say they do watch them but I have a feeling they do.
They played this game in the pilot episode of the Animorphs TV show...and Woolie picked this game...Confirmed: Woolie secretly loves Animorphs.
BEAST WARS!!!
+AfroMetalMizu *RANDOM EXPLOSION*
+Chad Serrant yesss
*Beasties
SettingItToWumbo "Aw, mom ya just jealous it's the Bea-stie-boys!"
+AfroMetalMizu she threw away my best porno mag
Dinobot was my favorite maximal/predicon back in the day.I just felt like mentioning that.
This is the most Canadian thing ever. Liam should know, he was baptised in maple syrup.
That sounds awful but delicious
The amount of Woolie getting interrupted is ridiculous
Dinobot had also a Samurai thing with him, i remember in the episode he died to protect the "humans" had a moment where he is meditating and the looking at his sword and i remember he also talk a lot about honor
@ 16:40... it was Ravage, guys. It was actually Ravage. That was the entire fucking point, because Ravage is a cool spy panther.
I found out about this show when I was like 15 because my dad was watching it on T.V. on his own time.
I watched exactly 1 episode of this. The first, in fact. I stopped not because I hated it, but because I was too lazy to dig around for the second. I could tell it would be, for better or worse, interesting when Optimus Kong stood in front of Stonehenge and shouted the title.
I liked Scorponok! His toy was really cool!
Cheetor vs. Cyber Mantis. He knows what Michael Bay films you've watched.
27:24 Matt admitting on camera that he indeed is a furry!
This takes me back.
There is no tutorial, only suffering.
That WAS Ravage. Yes, the cat from Soundwave's belly. No, it's never explained why he became anthropomorphic and Russian.
Ahh, ok. fair enough.
Please indulge us on the lore of Cananime, the world must know more of your people
Woolie! The stealth guy WAS Ravage! You were wrong and not wrong at the same time!
Me and my mom used to watch this all the time. and reboot. but she loved Beast Wars for some reason lol
That's the fattest T-Rex I've ever seen.
How many little woolies can you eat in the frozen time?
I actually had an Optimus Primal toy. I thought it was some sort of Transformers animal rip-off/bootleg, though, until I learned Beast Wars is an actual Transformers series when I was, like, 12.
Also "Beast Peace" sounds like the draft name for an unmade 3rd Beast Wars series.
rynox did a big HEEL turn in BEAST MACHINES
Ugh 3 seconds in and i hear Liam. I was so excited for the brief time.
I knew what it was when I saw the turrets in the intro! I win, Matt!