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Review: Transformers Rescue Bots: Mystery Rescue DVD

Transformers Rescue Bots Mystery Rescue

I recently received another compilation DVD for Transformers Rescue Bots. This is a show that my daughter and I enjoy watching together and my son is just starting to get into. We’ve collected all of the toys and are eagerly awaiting the dinosaur themed episodes that I hope are coming (based on what I’ve seen of the toys). But to tide us over we have this DVD which collects five episodes from the series with a mystery theme for each one. While the collector in me is thoroughly frustrated in not having a complete season on DVD and getting a DVD with a mixture of episodes from season 1 and season 2 on it I still like having the episodes for the kids to watch. The kids aren’t paying attention to continuity that much at this time anyway. Continue reading Review: Transformers Rescue Bots: Mystery Rescue DVD →

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DVD Review: Transformers Beast Machines, The Complete Series

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Transformers Beast Machines - The Complete Series

It is 1996 and I am graduating from college. I haven’t watched a Transformers cartoon series since Generation 1 and along comes this whole new series set in Cybertron’s future where there are still two warring factions the heroic Maximals and evil Predacons. The two groups crash land on an Earth-like planet and for 52 episodes we are treated to some of the best Transformers storytelling to come along, out side of the comics which were always pretty great. This series sparked a bit of a Transformers rebirth and when the credits fell on the last episode fans wanted more.

They got more… in the form of the 26 episode series Beast Machines. Beast Machines told the story of the return to Cybertron after the Maximals were stranded on Earth. Yes, the planet was actually Earth and not earth of the future but Earth of the far flung past slightly later than when the Autobots and Decepticons crash landed upon it. The Maximals return to Cybertron with a captured Megatron but the triumph turns tragic when the team gets separated, their memories are lost and Decepticon vehicons are hunting them down all over the planet. What’s worse is that they cannot transform.

Outnumbered by a much wider margin than on Earth the Maximals hide deep within Cybertron and find the organic core of the planet. What happens next in the remainder of the series was pretty amazing and I really enjoyed it. I was so happy to get an advanced copy of this DVD before today’s release date. It came out of the blue and I hadn’t asked for it so I am even more thrilled. The only series I still have to collect would be the complete series of Transformers: Cybertron, Transformers: Robots in Disguise and Seasons 2 & 3 of Transformers Beast Wars (the predecessor to Beast Machines)

The Beast Machines DVD also has some bonus features including interviews with series developer Marv Wolfman, story editor Robert N. Skir, voice director Susan Blue and voice actor David Kaye.

You can pick up this DVD through my Amazon.com link at Transformers Beast Machines: The Complete Series.