BEAST WARS " Unicron meets Optimus Primal"

[@dhyde2025]

I love how the show runners “winged it” throughout the whole series' run and ended up making, arguably, the greatest transformers content ever.

[@Taospark]

Bob Forward did have a plan on the lore and continuity as well as the final twist of Megatron's plan being going back in time to kill Optimus Prime.

[@captainbeatdown6254]

Man when I watched when I was like 12 this so awesome but I'm a 2000s kid who watched this on Netflix so I couldn't buy any toys unless I wanted 100 dollar master class transformers

[@cgianima]

@@captainbeatdown6254 If you can find local toy collector shops, go there. Buying the Beast Wars toys on the internet is a ripoff, but if you can find them in person it's better.

[@Blazieth]

The key element that made it work was, as far as I know, they made an effort to be in touch with the fans and got input from them as they went, and learned more as they went.

[@Geminias]

When this show was airing, it was some of the best CGI to ever come out in a kids show. Crazy to see how far things have come in 20 yrs.

[@CK2012]

I thought that as well, So was War Planet (got the name wrong.... what was it again) I think that one came out a bit latter which is why that one had better CGI.

[@tekkenfan01]

Action Man had the best CG

[@codered1132]

Lockon Stratos no reboot had the best CG

[@tekkenfan01]

Cody Riley not sure if Reboot seasons 3 and 4 were after Action Man but if so then yes to those two seasons

[@chrisandrews6686]

Both Reboot and Beast Wars were made by Mainframe entertainment in BC I believe. I remember reading that they were designing the software themselves on the fly to make this show

[@alphaaufa1890]

"That which does not become part of The One, shall become void" A twisted corruption of the iconic phrase "Till all are one", which is pretty dark.

[@cuz30001]

New Netflix transformer s gonna redo this

[@lightheart5]

Foreshadowing to Beast Machines

[@JonathanRodd]

@@lightheart5 I doubt anyone had any plan for Beast Machines at this point. Beast Machines didn't feel like it was planned even while it was on the air.

[@JonathanRodd]

I have to admit, as an adult I find the phrase "Till all are one" kind of creepy. It never dawned on me as a kid, but it kind of sounds like the chant of a death cult. There are two ways I tend to interpret the chant. 1. The Autobots are talking about being one with the matrix. Which basically means death. Young me didn't realize this but that is creepy. I always thought this is what they were talking about because Optimus Prime says "Till all are one" on his death bed shortly after mentioning that he will become "one with the matrix". 2. They are talking about ending the great war and reintegrating Autobot and Decepticon into a peaceful coexistence. This one is less creepy, but Autobots generally want to kill Decepticons just as much as the Decepticons want to kill Autobots. So if this is what they mean, they aren't really taking it to heart XD

[@azurepursuer8017]

@@cuz30001 And that they did, it seems like they got rid of all the wacky stuff and just turned it into a battle between Maximals and Predacons....which was kinda lame

[@DarkEinherjar]

"We have no physical form you can comprehend." Yeah, right... you were just scared that everyone finds out you were just a pair of floating skulls.

[@briansmith2739]

Doom reference.

[@romansOneSixteen]

01:14 "We have no choice. There is more danger than you know." That part sent chills down my spine.

[@BushidoBrownSama]

I wish we found out what that danger was

[@stephenbyrne2170]

@@BushidoBrownSama They later sent Tigerhawk to fix the time damage. Maybe that was the danger.

[@crazymantrav]

@@BushidoBrownSama it was the timeline they were trying to preserve

[@minomax3229]

@@crazymantrav and what they feared happened when megatron slipped off the top of the ship when they returned back to their cybertron.

[@Noremac25]

In either case; Destroying prehistoric earth while the Ark is present doesn't help the situation.

[@maddestmike5791]

Can never forget how chilling it was to hear Megatron say "The Beast Wars are over, Optimus! You. Lose.". Megatron, you sparkless bastard!

[@cygnusprime6728]

As a kid, the season finales of beast wars were so nerve wrecking!

[@Solider7]

​@cygnusprime6728, especially when you see the body of you-know-who at the end of season 2.

[@tahminadewan6810]

He sounded zesty ngl

[@ihar47221]

When I was a child, I was extremely impressed by the scene with Unicron.

[@greeneyedlunatic7473]

I still get goosebumbs from this, he is soo impresive.

[@drakedy5256]

this aint unicron this is the vok

[@Gigas0101]

I still am, Mainframe Entertainment was a real gem.

[@celiarunquist5247]

Well I see were in the same boat

[@drew4564]

I totally forgot about this scene, I rewatched the series still amazing wish seasons 2 and 3 were as long as season 1 was

[@NICKatronMC]

Megatron's giddy reaction to an apocalyptic, catastrophic situation caused by nigh-omnipotent beings is actually a good way to showcase how *FUCKING* insane he is

[@augossystem]

You know some say he is like the Joker to Optimus Primal. He’s also purple and green like the Joker.

[@thesailormercury2]

​@@augossystemthe joker : I like the way the world ends in chaos.

[@Blazieth]

Admittedly, he already had plans in place to prevent their plan from actually succeeding - but he can't help but give them credit for their sheer ruthlessness. He likes their attitude.

[@codeflextravels4334]

One of my favorite scenes in anything ever. As a kid, to be surprisingly and suddenly confronted with Unicron and familiar G1 stuff, knowing who he is from other media (in a time where cross media stuff didn't happen as often) and, even though the Vox were just using his image, the implication that in the back of every Transformer's mind is the looming thought of Unicron... oooohhh man, they just did the character SO MUCH justice in this scene, absolutely perfect dipiction

[@wreday720]

"in the back of every transformers mind is the looming thought of unicron" I never even thought of it that way... damn... but it makes sense... imagine living everyday like that, knowing he's out there and could even come back one day. That is such a cool concept too, wish it would have been explored in some of the official media

[@codeflextravels4334]

@@wreday720 it would be like knowing Satan really exists, but no one knows where he is right now and always comes back one day. Oh, and he's planet sized 😂

[@daanvos194]

​@@codeflextravels4334his biggest achievment everybody beliefs him not to be, so he can disrupt, corrupt and decieve, uninterupted A enemy, who is completely invisible and untouchable. but he is defeated

[@absolutemadlad5662]

You know despite coming face to face with what he thought was cybertrons equivalent to Satan, primal handled things pretty well

[@OmniversePosting]

Prime*

[@JOEmega64]

@@OmniversePosting No, it's definitely "Primal."

[@OmniversePosting]

@@JOEmega64 Yeah... My nerdformers knowledge is really shotty. I stand corrected. But Primal does stupid, imo.

[@JonathanRodd]

They don't show it but his ape form shit itself :P

[@chrisclack4258]

and these transformers came in till birth because about because of optimus prime and Megatron final fictional death

[@professorsponge1554]

I remember seeing this episode for the first time and was instantly blown away, thinking Unicron was back... and then 'lol nope. not really him.'

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

Professor Sponge Blue balls

[@ThunderLizardsRule]

I felt the same way. ^^

[@SciMultimedia]

Unicron? No. Chuck Testa.

[@sethbennett3278]

The show is a sorta prequel-sequel to G1. That said I also almost pissed myself thinking "Yo Unicron was involved in the creation of Earth" then it revealed it was not Unicron. Nowadays he technically is Earth. I don't know if it started with TFP or before, but it's where I first saw that story arc be used where Unicron is Earth. Still, this scene was terrifying. Showing Unicron's face is enough to send chills down my spine.

[@Autisticguywithacamera]

Yeah, I was surprised too. I was wondering how Unicron was here millions of years ago until he mentioned that he was only a form taken from Primal's data tracks. That was my first introduction to The Vok, such a cool idea for the show...

[@Tinymapleart]

Interesting that millions of years after Unicrons death, cybertronians still understand his might and power, to the point that the vok assume his form

[@chrisclack4258]

he is A head that can still talk

[@unicron3000]

Not gonna lie, even though they show it's not actually unicron, seeing his face right away was definitely an "oh fuck!" Moments

[@sub-zero5433]

I’ve always been intrigued by this scene. The nature of the “project” the aliens reference and the line “there is more danger than you know” seems to suggest destroying the earth was necessary to stop or delay some larger threat. but after the earth isn’t destroyed, the aliens don’t do anything else, and they only appear in 2 minor roles in the rest of the show, with completely different intentions. I believe the writers had planned to do more with them, but after their crazy time travel story was approved, they dropped the aliens plot line to focus on that one.

[@bytisoli]

apparently, they didn't have much plans at all, always unsure if the next season was to be made. So they wrote always these open endings, which could also be "they died" ending, if the show wasn't renewed.

[@chrisclack4258]

vok are there name

[@chrisclack4258]

seriously the alien that took on the form of unicron head is known as vok

[@IAmEvilTree]

The Vok were such an interesting and frightening antagonist when I was watching Beast Wars for the first time. Their episodes along with the stasis pod ones were my favourites. I hope they make a reappearance in a new show, meddling with Earth's development and showing the Cybertronians that they're not the only ones with eyes on this planet.

[@ShockwaveMuncher]

I don’t know why people are slamming this. This is actually a great scene. Even if it isn’t actually unicron. The voice and the simple design of Unicron is so unique and great that it’s both threatening and mysterious. I love how he doesn’t have eyes. It makes all the more threatening.

[@WrenchNinja]

Dotm Shockwave People are being stupid and aren't paying attention to the dialogue.

[@Supertron1]

Maybe the illusion's lack of eyes was a nod to Unicron losing his eyes at the end of the G1 movie (due to the Autobots entering his body through one eye and exiting through the other).

[@okamijubei]

Yeah and too bad Orson Welles couldn't do the voice. Mainly because he's dead

[@AlphaOmega1237]

I like the scene. I just don't understand the aliens' motives. If the concern is over time travel, blowing earth up is surely going to make the universe a worse place. No Autobots or Matrix, no one stops Unicron from wiping the universe clean of life.

[@yourexistencehasexpired9545]

@@AlphaOmega1237 think that’s kind of the point. Their motives are not known and might be beyond our understanding sense they are sort of Lovecraftian beings

[@lightheart5]

Fun Fact: Blu Mankuma, the actor who voices Tigertron, is the voice for Unicron/Vok

[@SilhouetteJudas]

Shame Orson Welles was already dead, would be so cool if he reprised his role

[@ValiantWrestling]

Was it Blu though? because it sure sounds alot like Jim Byrnes's Shadow Master voice from the Double Dragon cartoon and he was the voice of Inferno on Beast Wars.

[@RanaRandom]

@@ValiantWrestling oh man, Inferno was (still is) my favorite Transformer back then :D

[@DougsArtandAnimation]

Don’t forget, he also the voice of Tigerhawk in this series too.

[@lightheart5]

@@ValiantWrestling And Thrust in Beast Machines.

[@champbaka]

Well, they did do a good job mimicking Orson Welles voice.

[@lightheart5]

He would have been proud

[@champbaka]

lightheart5 ironically, I heard on his deathbed he was wasn’t so proud of voicing a character in a cartoon of robots trying to kill each other lol.

[@thesailormercury2]

@@champbaka and yet he had big paycheck from it .

[@Nephalem2002]

@@champbaka True, but I feel like some part of his spirit is looking down and acknowledging how much of an effect that character had and how good his performance was. The dude was good at his job.

[@champbaka]

@@Nephalem2002 It’s a shame since he passed not too long after his recording role and never lived to see how much his legacy had in the Transformers franchise.

[@Darth_Melek]

I didn’t get to see this show when I was a kid but I can’t stop worshiping the brilliance that this show was. As someone who himself works with 3d programs I can’t stop admiring how simple yet complex it was back then. Nowadays you have many tools that help you create all of this within a month with a studio to work with. These guys created these programs themselves and even took an year to create one season. They deserve a nobel prize.

[@neosparda4897]

3:32 "MEGATROOOOOON!"

[@commando6683]

Neo Sparda that gives me goosebumps every time

[@vincentmarcellino7183]

OPTIMUUUUUUUS!(Insert Naruto and Sasuke voices)

[@uainjansun]

Prime's last words if he lose

[@EuclidEndless5]

"DIIIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

[@twilightjester5672]

WIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

[@sukitbich]

3:53 Primal's head flying toward the screen

[@dianewarrenfan]

Wow, good catch!

[@Blazieth]

Fun fact: right before the actual explosion, you can hear the sound from Optimus' wrist-mounted cannons, and the shattering of glass. Big Bot made a last-second effort to escape, but it was too little too late.

[@sukitbich]

@Blazieth I never noticed that. Thank you.

[@sukitbich]

@Blazieth you like Beast Wars, so you're alright by me.

[@AdPhDu1]

So many things to be impressive by in this clip; Like how the moon that turned into a superweapon, how Megatron played everyone without them realizing it in order to destroy the Vok superweapon, and the CGI effect used here.

[@cygnusprime6728]

Megatron honestly deserved to win the beast wars for this brilliant planning.

[@crb4059]

But there was one more important reason for the destruction of the second moon : up until then you weren’t sure if this was the planet earth, after it explodes waspinator says “one moon, Waspinator knows” which sets the stage for the end of season two. And we know what happens then.

[@alexanderoamador]

As much as every body is slamming this clip. You have to remember when this was first shown it was bad ass. To me this has better graphics than the new transformers cartoon.

[@vonshroom2068]

That is because this show was a labour of love and tried everything to stay true to the origional source. And still to this day this show is the only real succesor to the 80s G1 series. It even explained and enhanced it by explaining the humans, the autobots vs decepticons and all with a new story without ruining the origional material. I wished hollywood and studio's would have taken note with all their rehashing and butchering old franchises to make a quick buck.

[@thehaloscrolls391]

Prime’s CGI is still better, but Prime itself is a modern (better) version of Beast wars, just compare the two

[@DaVeO52]

Not in terms of story. Beast Wars outshines it by a mega-cycle. Prime has some incredibly clunky dialogue and nonsensical story situations. It does get better with Season 2 as less emphasis is on the human children. But Beast Wars never had the hang ups of dealing with humans and were more focused on the conflict. I'm watching Prime right now but it's just not hooking me as much as Beast Wars did back in the day.

[@vonshroom2068]

Well beast wars had a few things prime never had. 1st 3D, (big thing during trhe reboot era) 2nd As for story up on till the Vok island it was pretty much monster of the week. As you can tell deaths didn't matter much until the Vok showed up and the predicons had their immortality chip stripped lol. 3rd The transformations and models are a bit lacking for most of the Prime transformers.

[@MustProtectUwU42069]

@@vonshroom2068 hmmm nah prime still good besides we all know which tf cartoon is best

[@melvinshine9841]

I remember as a kid, thinking this scene was really cool but felt like I was missing something because I had no clue what a Unicron was supposed to be. I did know shit was about to go down, though.

[@luckyexplorer1053]

“We have no physical form you could comprehend. We chose this figure of authority” This for some reason sounds so chilling.

[@Drago2600]

This was awesome when it aired, still is. Filled a long void when transformers was off the air. I went nuts seeing it as a kid.

[@airplanemaster1]

To be entirely honest, this scene was probably just to push the limits of 3D animation...

[@SegaMario]

At the time. CGI of the 80's and 90's had a charm to them that modern CGI will never have. I miss those days...

[@geniusbob]

Hardly. It's a matter of quality rather than the medium itself. CGI was super experimental in the era so most of what was done had to be highest quality to warrant the cost. These days CGI is a throwaway animation style. It's less a matter of charm and more...investment.

[@SegaMario]

geniusbob True with the throwaway bit. Gone are the days of hand-drawn animation. All we have nowadays are CGI and simplified flash animation. God dammit.

[@chase1146]

It’s not cgi that’s the problem, it’s bad cgi. There’s plenty of movies im sure all of you love that uses cgi where you don’t even realize

[@aeris44]

Rose Supreme Youre generalizing CGi so heavily for the sake of nostalgia. I suggest you look into the amount of work it takes to do CGI. Not every use of it today is for blockbuster sequels. Plenty is still amazing and artistic. There wasn’t a “charm” to 90s CGI, you’re just trying to excuse the quality.

[@wanderer2465]

I love 90's cgi animation. It looked so interesting and also disturbing, like moon transforming into that ring used to disturb me as a kid

[@Greystonedelta]

This scene always freaked me out. But now I'm so intrigued by it. I remember crying when Optimus Primal died.

[@Andie_Videos]

If you pause at 3:52 at the right time U can see primal detached head

[@elborrego4916]

Yeah I think Beast Wars inherited expressiveness from the G2 Marvel comics.

[@AgentRedgrave]

Holy shit, that's dark as fuck for a kids show.

[@JSP_1147]

That is scary

[@zemedain]

oh dear lord

[@RyanHayes1984]

Optimus Primal: *head floats through space* Unicron: Now you know how I feel

[@RandomPerson-qg7yq]

3:53 If you set the video speed to 0.25 and pause correctly, you can see Optimus Primal's face :O

[@Someone92-p7x]

.

[@noirangel6416]

The f***

[@Straswa]

Poor Primal!

[@chuckecheese1522]

Lol and then Waspinators voice at that speed lol

[@MaestroRigale]

Ugh. That’s a bit dark :/

[@catpin]

I started watching this episode on Pluto TV.

[@RandomPerson-qg7yq]

One of the more interesting scenes in Beast Wars,if you ask me

[@Ryekenhoshin23]

I remember the first time I seen this, pausing the ending where the bits of Primal flew at the screen frame by frame and seeing his dismembered head gives me goose bumps just reflecting upon it!

[@martinr8278]

Now that’s the way to make an appearance!!! Beast wars did an amazing job standing on its own but also tipping the hat to the original. Amazing story writing

[@-Gurza-]

Season one: "We have no physical form you could comprehend." Season three: "Er, what we _meant_ to say was..

[@masterfarr8265]

They still confuse me

[@great159]

WHAT'S SO HARD TO COMPREHEND ABOUT FLOATING HEADS?!...........BEAST WARS=EPIC FAIL👎

[@perfectlybalanced8995]

Well I think what they mean is that the characters in the show can’t comprehend them while we can

[@Noremac25]

I wish the vok designers were more creative.

[@-Gurza-]

@@perfectlybalanced8995 Er.. I think the transformers were down with the concept.

[@aidan4246]

1:51 when I first saw these as a kid I thought they were graves. I thought the Vok were doing something with robo zombies like in TFP.

[@kingpablothe1stoverlordoft871]

2:50-3:04 is megatron breaking the forth wall? He keeps looking straight at the camera, especially with that last line...

[@ThatSlowTypingGuy]

Nah, he's being Megatron.

[@stephenbyrne2170]

Looking straight doesn't qualify as a 4th Wall Break.

[@RanaRandom]

this is the *BESTEST* cliffhanger a TV Show could ever get. Never got to see the later season afterwards :O.

[@great159]

Trust me the show starts to turn into shit later on.

[@RanaRandom]

@@great159 🤣

[@ITSAHARDNUGLIFE]

It may have lacked the magic of season 1 but still, you should watch the rest. Some bad ass epic moments just waiting for you.

[@cygnusprime6728]

@@great159 lies

[@chrisclack4258]

@@ITSAHARDNUGLIFE this is technically the last episode of season one of beast wars

[@darj617]

The only plothole of the Beast Wars was never finding out much about the Vok and what their intentions were with the Earth experiment...are they kind of like the intergalactic gardeners?

[@Spartan-343]

Different writers had different ideas about them. Those writers had ideas from beings evolved from the Swarm who wanted to make up for destroying mankind and manipulated time over and over again to ensure mankind's prosperity, to gods or godlike beings who had reached the pinnacle of existence who wanted to ascend other species to their level etc. They never could figure out were they wanted to go with them.

[@gcHK47]

Brian Beatty I seem to remember reading that the Vok used prehistoric Earth as a testing range for weapons, but felt guilty over the destruction they caused, so they tried to become Earth’s guardians.

[@Spartan-343]

Yeah I think that was the idea they were considering. Other parts of it I think were that they planted Energon on Earth for humans to find later on to use as a clean abundant energy and would take the roles of God or their gods to guide them throughout their history and advancement.

[@НиколайИванов-в8ы1я]

Brian Beatty it is kind of late, but it is also said that they are guarding The One - sentient core of uni/multiverse and presumably the entity which spawned the gods including Unicron and Primus

[@nexusshark]

That's not a plot hole, it's an abandoned arc. A plot hole is a contradiction in a narrative.

[@saskruffriders8234]

I’d say Beast Wars Megatron was more successful in his schemes than G1 Megatron.

[@mitchellskene8176]

I have no idea why folks trash this. Yea the CGI is a little odd looking by today's standards, but by the standards of the day it was released, it still holds up remarkably well for its age, unlike other CGI shows from the same time period.

[@QuickStix26]

Been looking for this scene for years! Thanks for posting!

[@Uacher]

That moon exploded very similarly to the Death Star! Fucking loved it!

[@chrisclack4258]

that was A fake moon

[@Uacher]

@@chrisclack4258 Yeah, just like the actual Death Star, even more authentic!

[@monkeydrajanka4798]

UNICRON IS IN RISE OF THE BEASTS

[@CapeMike]

Of special note: If you get a chance, watch the Japanese Beast Wars II movie, titled 'Lio Convoy's Critical Moment'...you get to find out what REALLY happened to Primal between his 'death' here and his subsequent return....

[@Supertron1]

Ohh, Beast Wars II; I think that's the show with Megatron's brother. It looks like something that should have had more exposure worldwide.

[@DarkHenrik1]

@@Supertron1 that anime's Galvatron was not related to Beast Wars Megatron. Galvatron's brother in Beast Wars II was Megastorm, a guy who looked like G2 Megatron (because they used that toy to reprecent Megastorm).

[@HashbrownMashup]

What a high-impact sequence!

[@sulaimaanahmad]

i love this series... 😁

[@Comkill117]

I wish the Vok got just a little more screen time. They’re such an interesting part of the series.

[@YoungZxOfficial]

When Optimus yells megaton it’s like Star Trek like CON! Lmao

[@sflvideos3878]

Yo has there ever been a straight up alien life force that's just randomly fucking with your favorite squad and their enemies throughout the entirety of a T.V. show you've watched? BEAST WARS

[@GDSK09]

Thats not unicron. Thats the Vok posing as unicron

[@devinweathers7520]

ether way he being ass

[@seant1326]

Read the description.

[@Lavos2007]

well YOU didnt read the description even though it was short...

[@GDSK09]

Lavos2007 i did actually.

[@MrOelias]

GDSK09 yep

[@kingxtian1414]

I SWEAR THIS HAS TO BE CONNECTED TO THE NEW TF MOVIE!!!

[@croaton07]

The music in this series was top notch along with practically everything else. Damn I miss thr 90s

[@scorpiusrexman1017]

3:02 Megatron: “I rather like these aliens” Terrorsaur:”Like them?! They’re trying to destroy us!” Me: “I’m with the pterosaur on this one!”

[@TigerWing141]

Waspinator doesn't want to be destroyed! Waspinator has plans.

[@Gangerworld]

I mean, you see Optimus' disembodied faceplate fly towards the screen at the end. That messed me up as a kid.

[@ettcha]

I can't be the only one who recorded this over their parents wedding VHS and watched the last scene frame by frame dozens of times after noticing Optimus' head hurtling towards the camera right?... RIGHT?!!! It was so traumatic I repressed the memory of it till now (aka I got old and forgot 😂)!

[@chrisclack4258]

i would of just used one of my own personal vhs tape

[@jedibattlemasterkos]

God I loved this show.

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

I misrembered this scene and thought he was the real Unicron. It would be have been a way cooler twist if it really was Unicron.

[@DarkHenrik1]

Not entierly. Remember that Unicron in the original G1 cartoon continuity was not the god of destruction and chaos like in the rest of Transformer lore, but a powerful, god-like entity created by some scientist who lost control over him.

[@Kira22558]

@@DarkHenrik1 where?

[@DarkHenrik1]

@@Kira22558 in the Season 3 episode of the G1 Transformers cartoon, called "call of the primitives"

[@Kira22558]

@@DarkHenrik1 wasn't "The one"(basically literally the sentient core) created him?

[@DarkHenrik1]

@@Kira22558 that's the comic origin. in the original cartoon, an alien scientist named Primacron created Unicron in order to have him eliminate all life from the universe so Primacron had a clean slate to start from with his next experiments.

[@John_RickXP]

0:31 Optimus Primal's face bruh 💀

[@gengisjon]

When I watched this, I had no idea who Unicron was.

[@dragonking5852]

did anyone notice that in this scene 0:52 the vok mention The One the being in the allined continuity that created Primus and Unicron and who is THE MULTIVERSE

[@Vejitatheouji]

If you destroy me, I'll become more powerful than you can ever imagine....

[@dracodracarys2339]

"This figure of authority from your data track." ah yes, the planet-crunching eldritch being that's the closest thing the Transformers universe has to a Satan equivalent. yep

[@maskyprime]

Fun fact: unicron is voiced by blu mankuma who also voices tigatron

[@StormSage13]

This was actually my first Transformers show when I was a little kid, so I didn't understand the references to the OG show. I just remembered Optimus being scared and that terror transfering to me.

[@TevyaSmolka]

i loved this show its amazing

[@STAXONDECK1]

This is the best show I ever watched as a kid

[@augossystem]

Is it a coincidence, mistake or intentional that this image of Unicron is a head WITHOUT a body?

[@jordanpeterson5038]

This was a shock, even though this wasnt really unicron. Also I always wondered what he ment when he said that there was more danger than you know. What danger was that?

[@charlespackowski6620]

“The Beast Wars are over Optimus! *you lose* “

[@lobotzindiegoantesnesslope6004]

woah! when i watched this as kid in spanish he said “you an your kin has contaminated the experiment....” i remember feeling shivers and goosebumps the whole time i didn’t know who unicron was (thought i watched some original transformers) but im my i was like :ap are those annunakis? elohim? wooooah this thing is sooo cool scared and excited

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

This would have been a better twist if the moon really was Unicron.

[@jenothemississippianofmand5202]

Here after watching War for Cybertron Kingdom. Spoiler alert unicron is featured heavily.

[@VictorPerez-hg2ed]

I have to admit those vok really have an impressive toys.

[@Agentshadowolf]

Did anyone consider that if the Vok did destroy Earth with that planet buster they would have destroyed the Ark and created that time storm and screwed everything up beyond belief lol

[@phenompy]

In this episode of this season we learn that, earth had two moons, the "gods" abandoned earth and by extend humans because of the war between two races of unearthly beings who fell from the sky. That was the deepest lore I've seen in a kids show and not many shows had explored such ideas again.

[@DjDoxastic]

Broooo; little did I know as a kid beast wars was based on real life...look at the surmarian texts!! basically tells the same story

[@great159]

You two are talking a BUNCH of BULLSHIT. That second "moon" was nothing more than an alien device. Stop trying to make this shitty show deep because It isn't.

[@Stormfin]

I love how quickly Optimus switches from pleading his case to trying to protect the wildlife the minute the Vok bring up 'Sterilizing'.

[@Wulfen73]

"We chose this figure of Authority...." "You picked planet eating robot satan"

[@uainjansun]

I love unicron in this animation of BW

[@floridamike8710]

This form of Unicron is not the typical chaos bringer but one that cares about life

[@andrewshearsby8125]

This scared me before who i knew Unicron was

[@Ansible1000]

I'm currently watching through Transformers Prime. While the characters are mostly Gen 1 adaptations, the DNA of Beastwars is present in so many good things, from the small cast, willingness to off major characters in dramatic fashion and the epic scale of the series. The only downside is the human cast, and even they're not terrible (except S1 Miko...). And yes, while this isn't really Unicron, it does the big man justice. The menace and power is perfectly captured in just a small dialogue scene. It also tells you how the Vok see themselves compared to the Maximals and Predacons.

[@Greystonedelta]

This scene was chilling!

[@victoriusnovah1317]

Gotta watch out for those "inter-dimensional" shape-shifters.

[@wanfahmy8017]

Since i was a kid i always wonder what happened to optimus after this episode..

[@denisgauthier9191]

it would’ve been better if Unicron had never bet Optimus his destruction would never have happened

[@thesailormercury2]

Unicorn a symbol of Authority lol

[@danbaldwick4853]

I wonder if we will ever see the Vok in another Transformers show.

[@plonkersbro]

I remember buying the Beast Wars figures back when episodes of this were being shown every bank holiday and being gutted that there wasn't more of them in the show

[@patriousthefallenknight3185]

this ripped my heart out as a kid, dont know if anyone commented on this but you can also see his head for a split sec

[@andrewshearsby8125]

Still impressive too this day. Unicron scared me as a kid, even scarier years later when i saw TFTM. Those slamming it are uncultured as this was pioneering CGI back in the day

[@dieselexkore2063]

I like how they scanned his memory and chose Unicrons head. Because it’s still floating around cybertron so Primal would have only saw that part of him.

[@bazzjedimaster]

I wonder if The Vok served as a prototype for the Beast Planet in Shadow Raiders.

[@Belicure]

3:53 you can see his dismembered head

[@a.i17]

32 yo now, and I will always love this show..

[@NDNOutlaw-v8y]

The Vok probably considered Primacron, Unicron's creator who was revealed in the G1 cartoon's season 3 episode: "Call of the Primitives", then passed on picking him for their form for obvious reasons. 😂

[@anthonybanjak1000]

When the termination sequence began, I was downright terrified. The aliens were set up in a way that made them bigger than even the transformers, than even our planet, and with a single moment, they chose to just wipe them out and call it sterilization Truly, truly terrifying

[@montreauxs]

One thing that would have been incredible, is if in let's say.. BeastWars, a stasis pod ends up scanning a Human Skeleton or Near Death Human, and ends up becoming a Beast Wars Transformer.. Makes me wonder what it would look like and what it's Transformation forms would be?

[@frick_____you]

They'd probably look like something out of the uncanny valley

[@JMObyx]

@OptimalOptimus50 A Pretender???

[@nunyabuizness2953]

Modern humans didn't evolve yet in the timeline they're in. They do encounter ape men though and Dinobot sacrifices himself to stop Megatron and the predacons from exterminating all the ape men.

[@WALDENSOFTWARE]

maybe something like transmutate?

[@selkirkswift]

I remember the first time seeing this well. Crazy shit