Events in the world of Sunbow happen without rhyme or reason, characters enter and leave with no explanation other than their presence in a toy catalogue (or get gunned down if it’s in theatres!), and even the show’s fondly remembered voice acting is marred by a number of characters working their way through their lines very slowly. Having recently been going through both the Sunbow cartoon and Beast Wars, I gotta say that the gap in quality is unassailable. Within Transformers, it was proof of the franchise’s ability to tell serious stories through animation without losing any target-audience appeal. As a piece of licensed media, it proved that full 3D animation was feasible not just for a creator-led project like Mainframe’s own ReBoot, but for a production beholden to the whims of licensors. Beast Wars is one of those rare shows that represents a watershed moment in both the franchise and the wider animation industry.
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