Transformers Beast Wars toy commercials (1996 - 1999)

One of my favorite childhood beast wars action figures from the 90's! When I was a kid I saw Beast Fuzors commercial on TV with VHS. Brings me back memories.
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[@bthesilentgames]

The series that revived the Transformers brand.

[@marcusblackwell6268]

The movies: am I a joke to you?

[@michaelcasey1648]

​@@marcusblackwell6268 yes because beast wars saved transformers not the movies

[@marcusblackwell6268]

@@michaelcasey1648 oh well, then that means 2007 didn't mean anything just like Cybertron

[@jp3813]

@@marcusblackwell6268 The live action movies were after Beast Wars.

[@bantuboi3131]

@@marcusblackwell6268 the movies made it more popular and a billion dollar franchise. After G1 in the 80s, it fell off, they tried to revive it with g2 in the early 90s, that failed, then Beast Wars came out and the show and toys were a huge success, then came the unicron trilogy and things were just "ok". The movies then came and made TF huge worldwide. It was a 2nd renaissance. Beast Wars was the 1st.

[@KoreTrooper4221]

I completely forgot what commercials were like back then. They were crazy in all the right ways.

[@HerohammerStudios]

Don't understand why they have to yell at you like this though

[@jeremyriley1238]

@@HerohammerStudios Because the 90's was all about being edgy and extreme.

[@mgshock]

@@HerohammerStudios A lot of the 90's Kenner/Hasbro commercials have the same "energy".

[@RID01S]

@@jeremyriley1238x games shit

[@jaysonklein6018]

​@@HerohammerStudios because it's all ways to get you excited to get the toys

[@tannerparriette4245]

So imagine getting spoiled by a toy commercial that Dinobot switches sides

[@AgentRedgrave]

I think the show made Dinobot a Predacon that changed sides to explain why he was the only Maximal to change into a dinosaur. While all the other dinosaurs and reptiles were Predacons.

[@David315842]

@@AgentRedgravetannerparriette4245 may have been referring to the Transmetals 2 figure perhaps?

[@Avalon64]

yup happened to me...

[@tannerparriette4245]

@@David315842 I honestly don't remember it's been so long

[@David315842]

@@tannerparriette4245 I was saying to another user, that may have been the commercial you were referring to, that the Transmetal 2 version of Dinobot was a Predacon this time around, after being a Maximal for so long.

[@thecasiowizard]

I love how they make Waspinator so badass, but in the show he was just a running gag of failure 🤣

[@jeremyriley1238]

My guess is the commercials were done before the show finalized the characters' personalities.

[@thecasiowizard]

@@jeremyriley1238 I guess so. In a lot of these ads too, they showed Predacons based on winged insects, and they couldn't put those in the show because Waspinator was a winged insect in the show already.

[@DarkAnon100]

@@jeremyriley1238 it's pretty much that, if you check the original box synopsis for Beast Wars, the Maximals and Predacons werent not the descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons, they were basically them, Bat Optimus Primal and Crocodile Megatron were originally G1 Optimus Prime and Megatron before they made them into the individual characters we know and love

[@GODCONVOYPRIME]

Yeah I mean we never had that with G1. At least G1 took itself seriously to a point instead of having some little toddler crap like waspinatiar

[@GODCONVOYPRIME]

@@DarkAnon100 they should have kept it that way.

[@TOYNaroundstudios]

Depth Charge & Rampage til this day are still one of my favorite rivalries. Cool figures too.

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

Depth Charge rules

[@PlasmaStar87]

Me too

[@PlasmaStar87]

@@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812 HELL YEAH HE DOES!!!

[@amwfan88]

Hearing that first commercial describe Waspinator as "evil" cracks me up, considering how he was portrayed in the TV show. Evil in his own mind, and I'm not even sure that's entirely true.

[@99999drake]

I mean, he is evil… smart or competent, thats other thing XD

[@QuantaSolace]

The toys came out before the show. It’s possible he was intended to be a more serious villain than the Waspinator that we know and love.

[@liamjohnston5578]

Bless Waspinator's heart, he really tried to be evil

[@mattb8754]

What about Tarantulas?

[@samuelcarrasquillo4590]

​@@mattb8754 Treacherous And Deadly!

[@chasformer3091]

The toy line that saved Transformers.

[@OmnicidalClown1992]

Hell yeah, Beast Wars was my childhood. I would jump up and down with excitement every time I saw a Beast Wars toy commercial.

[@GlassesnMouthplates]

The Beast Wars toyline was really ahead of its time.

[@marshallhuffer4713]

Beast Wars is what really got me into Transformers. I watched reruns of G1 and had a few if the toys but it never clicked with me the way Beast Wars did.

[@monster-mecha_enthusiast_2002]

True, dispite being born in the 2000's? while not having the toys, G1 also never clicked with me the way Beast Wars along with my other favorites such as the Unicron Trilogy,RID 2001,Animated, and Prime lol.

[@renji90998]

For 90s kids beast wars was our introduction to the transformers franchise. I remember as a I had Transmetal Optimus, Silverbolt, and a Tigerhawk.

[@clarencekueh4496]

All the beast wars character are awesome.my favorite toy is optimus prime and Megatron.i like they have a mutant mask or battle mask.i miss fox kids and the 90s so much.

[@Actionfan19]

Fun fact: Transmetal 2 cyber shark eventually became the coolest shark in town Sky-bite.

[@vice-grip]

I know

[@TheRisingStorm316]

#robotsindisguise2001

[@dmunoz1466]

Honestly, it reminds me of a cybornetic Prince Sidon from LOZ: BotW with a massive mawkhawk

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

That bizarre time when Optimus Primal was a Bat, Megatron was a crocodile, and Cybershark was a good guy.

[@DarkAnon100]

Not only Optimus Primal and Megatron were a Bat and a Crocodile, but originally, They were actually supposed to be G1 Optimus Prime and Megatron as Beasts until they made the cartoon and made the Maximals and Predacons descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons

[@KingOfSciliy]

Cybershark was always a Maximal

[@jamespressman1202]

what version of beast war is this? i only saw optimus as a gorilla with ratrap,cheetar and rhinox as the 1st maximals.

[@dekendricknunsant4662]

😂😂😂

[@KingOfSciliy]

@@jamespressman1202 The first toy-line commercials, before the tv series was green-lit. Before Scorponok and Rhinox were added to the roster (and toyline), there was the Predacon Iguanus (Iguana) and the Maximal Razorbeast (Warthog). It wasn't until later while the tv series was already in production that Hasbro released the Gorilla Optimus Primal and T-Rex Megatron that their new models were added into the series (which is why Optimus was the only Maximal before Airrazor that could fly since it was carried over from when his alternate form was a Bat, and why Megatron was brushing his T-Rex's head's teeth with a toothbrush since it was carried over from when he was a Crocodile).

[@matthewskudzienski888]

“Optimus Maximize!”(2:04)

[@samuelcarrasquillo4590]

Voiced By Garry Chalk! (...Not Ron Perlman AKA Hellboy)

[@ParadoxFudge]

I’ve still got my Tiger Hawk till this day

[@billaubin14]

I had him too but my mom gave them all away one day to salvation army 😂 . I must of had around 40

[@Dragnoff88]

I wish some of these toys made it to the show.

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

Like Polar Claw

[@billaubin14]

Could have chilled with Tigertron

[@dergrat]

Seeing all the prototype toys in the first commercial is really cool

[@shaunbang]

Man I wish I kept my beast wars toys 😢I remember loving my Optimus primal and white Tiger but sadly I have a really horrible experience where a substitute kindergarten teacher took away my Rhinox then lies to my parents that she didn’t take it and I never got it back. I don’t know what she did with it but that woman is a horrible evil person for stealing a toy from a child smh

[@bobthedopeman7327]

I had about half of these. Some of the others I ALWAYS WANTED. And some I didn't know existed.

[@clarencekueh4496]

the tv toy commercials is awesome back in the 90s. i like the toys is in the cartoon. my favorite Beast Wars toy is all of them.

[@Alterego912]

I always wanted Dinobot. Whiffed my chance to get it. Luckily, the Kingdom line gave me something of a second chance… but I miss the motorized blade, though.

[@FloundrQQ]

I had a dinobot... I think I donated it.. now I wish I hadn't..

[@rashounjohnson9562]

Beast wars Animals vs reptiles and bugs.

[@SpiderandMosquito]

So I was wondering who that bat and crocodile were at the start of the early commercials and looked it up. That's Optimus Prime and Megatron... Of course. Who else would they be? Joking aside, who else would you open the commercial of your new major toyline be, but seems weird today. I don't know why, but I'm not surprised that they would change their alt-modes. Now, with research, I found that the original storyline were that these were the classic characters, continuing their battles in new animal forms on modern day Earth, even had a comic miniseries to launch the toys. Habro abandoned this context and reconned them all into new characters when Mainframe created the admittedly more interesting concept of the Maximals and Predacons would be their descendants. Crocodile Megatron is actually really cool and fitting, I wouldn't have said no to him remaining in that alt, but my question is, why a bat? Seems weird choice for Optimus, don't it? Well, it turns out the original figures were being designed by Kenner toys, who were at the time doing the merchandise for Batman media, specifically the movies and Animated Series. Prime was basically being recycled from the models of their Batman action figures. .... So yeah. Que the "the more you know" shooting star... thing. :)

[@HerohammerStudios]

Man, Transmetals were so awesome

[@morio9284]

Yes, so true! It's very possible that they will get a re-release. Perhaps this year.

[@TravissMcCoy]

I'm totally convinced they made the figures first before debuting them in the show for more accuracy 🔥

[@UchihaJP]

This narrator is a fckn legend lol

[@MisterX867]

6:17 who remembers seeing tons of boxes of Aquasting on store shelves?

[@08211128masaya]

アニメに一切出てこないキャラのおもちゃ出てて、いつか出てくると信じてたのに出てこないまま終わるの泣いた

[@leogmg]

This certainly brings back nice memories from both the toyline and the cartoon, although it also reminds me how I always found it a bit baffling how several characters featured in the toy commercials never made it to the show. Nowadays I understand the CGI animation was very expensive and there was a hard limit to how many recurrent characters they could have, but the selections they made still puzzle me at times. For example, based on the commercial that introduced the Fuzors toyline, I would have expected Silverbolt and Aquasting to be the characters featured in the cartoon, but while we did got Silverbolt, the Fuzor Predacon in the cartoon was Quickstrike.

[@mattcastro2387]

"Evil Waspinator" lol... there was nothing evil about him. he was so funny!

[@brandonthompson9668]

Can't believe I had all of these and gave them away when I was a stupid young teen. I have an entirely different collection now of 3rd party transformers but there isn't a drop of sentiment or nostalgia attached to them. My favorites were Beast Wars Snarl, Transmetal 2 Dinobot & Ramulus, Quickstrike, Transmetal 3 Megatron and of course Tigerhawk although he really needs a 3rd party update.

[@psychedashell]

Loved the weapons as part of the whole package. I lost so many transformers weapons because they got separated - never lost a Beast Wars toy weapon.

[@archabolt1446]

I love Beast Wars. I can't believe this is the first time I saw the toy commercial. That announcer so classic 90's. XD

[@eafd2708]

9:13 they have the old g1 theme in here!

[@gabrielchee8470]

Decepticons forever!!!!-Ravage

[@monster-mecha_enthusiast_2002]

Still one of my favorite Transformers lines til' this day! :D

[@morio9284]

Transmetals series was mine. 👍

[@Aggression-hc3yp]

I used to have the Transmetal Waspinator and Turantulas and Transmetal 2 Cheetor and Optimal Optimus Primal. Those were the days.

[@sammycaldwell3047]

I love beastwars transformers. Magnaboss was my first toy and you can't forget about the TV series.

[@cville991]

Even the commercials had that classic transformation sound. 😆

[@timtorn8591]

I had quite a few back then, parents got me a bunch for Christmas

[@SpecialFX83]

Beast Wars was the shit in the 90s

[@matthewsvideos8235]

I remember most of these commercials. I still have quite a few of the toys still. The Transmetal Megatron needs some repair in the left shoulder and right arm. I have to make parts for him. I have Optimal Optimus on a bedroom shelf on guard duty 23 years later.

[@Chillin_spree]

That was one of my first toys when I was a child.

[@GuardianKyle]

My favorite toy line ever, second is Bionicle!

[@RetroActionUK]

Both saved something too! For BIONICLE it was LEGO and Beast Wars it was Transformers.

[@alexandercandicedad1355]

That two pack was my first transformer! Oh the nostalgia!

[@mathewhaight]

Ah yes everyone's beloved character, Tarantula.

[@donmerrittino9897]

The thing I remember from the cartoon was Transmetal Megatron aka Rollerblading T-Rex

[@CookiePrince52]

Awesome video! I grew up watching Beast Wars on Fox Kids, back in 1999-2000. I'm looking forward to collecting the reissued Beast Wars action figures. I'd love to have Optimus Primal and Megatron in my collection! ^_^

[@walterpetersen776]

They are in the orginal packaging I bought an old one I think I have.

[@morio9284]

Then look for Transformers Kingdom Optimus Primal, they were re-released last year or 2021.

[@walterpetersen776]

@@morio9284 I found the og beast wars toys at a walmart in a small town of Ogalahla Nebraska

[@QuantaSolace]

It's a shame we never got a Legacy Optimal Optimus. I guess there's the Power of the Primes version but good luck finding one.

[@leonelmena731]

I miss Bat Optimis Primal

[@alvarosanchez4070]

Like how bionicle saves lego from the bankrup beast wars saves this franchise from the darkses moment

[@nghiemvo386]

And you know what more funny both are mechanical have a depth lore and emotional story,Even bionicle comics book was from DC comics and transfomer was from Marvel comics

[@shaunbang]

I’m so thankful to have gotten to grow up during the beast wars era. Love that we get screen accurate toys now to but wish they weren’t so expensive lol and now we also get to see it on the big screen

[@Jaxionisnum2]

The series that got me into transformers💖 and just a special part of my childhood

[@eliaspuppet9973]

Those were the good old days

[@doctoralgy8186]

I like how they use that plasticity transforming sound clip over and over. sounds so satisfying

[@gabrielchee8470]

5:21 I live!!!*crazy laughter* for the royalty!!!!

[@briancorvello3620]

Am I the only one who thinks the narrator for this franchise sounds even more evil than Megatron??

[@datemasamune2904]

I never realized that the Maximals were all mammals and birds, while the Predacons were reptilians and crawlies.

[@Nooshdog]

I remember I bought the Optimus and Megatron 2-pack and I was so confused when the show debuted and they were a gorilla and a T-Rex. I prefer the show versions, but I thought thr bat and alligator were just silly, good fun.

[@dave8826]

I hope those transformers gimmicks came back one day..

[@BladeOfLight16]

I never knew that Depth Charge's second mode was supposed to be space worthy.

[@jack-exzolt9858]

The Transmetal 2 Cybershark eventually became Sky-Byte from Robots in Disguise anime.

[@HerohammerStudios]

Crazy how much the line improved over time

[@WelshGiraffa]

Sees Cybershark Sky-Byte:THAT’S ME!!

[@parkerpshebnisky1051]

I had every beast wars toy!

[@Blitz_Zayne04]

I remember owning Rampage and Depth charge as a kid. They were my favorite Christmas toys. I got in trouble for opening the presents too early. 😅🐵👍

[@thejoker15678]

(Switches to Charlie side) Winning! (Switches back to normal) A Commercial compilation of Transformers: Beast Wars!

[@AzureViking]

omg my childhood. I remember I missed out on the first gen, but I think I started collecting around Magnaboss because I absolutely remember having that figure and the Silverbolt. I think I got just about every Transmetal figures as well. I used to run to the store every week with my allowance and check for new ones back in 6th grade. Those were the days. I wish I knew what happened to all those toys. I think my mom sold em at a garage sale at some point

[@RID01S]

Love these 90’s commercials

[@gabrielchee8470]

2:02 yesss this is the one familiar with after poking around YT enough

[@eccentricky6170]

Can we talk about what a banger the music in the first six minutes is?

[@Drixenol86]

Beast Wars was Transformers series I grew up with. Sadly, the toys fell apart easily because of loose joints. Luckily, they fixed the problem with the recent rereleases.

[@travisrassel9978]

waspinator was the comic relief. And megatron was the evil one

[@ThayneGill]

Honestly i think the music for the commercial should’ve been the intro for the show.

[@Hoggogo]

It’s amazing how many of these guys actually existed yet didn’t appear in the show

[@VideoSmarts1]

Would’ve taken too much of a toll on the budget

[@shockerx911]

They made a Beast Wars 2 anime which included pretty much all of the excluded toys

[@cheetorofrohan8835]

Thanks for this I was and still am in love with Beast Wars

[@Khanmanlol]

I like how in the first commercials, there's a click sound with every step in the transformation of the bots.

[@paulsantos914]

Finally, HD Beast Wars commercials!

[@happyabbyarts]

Bat primal and alligator megatron was one of my fav toys ever

[@JM-dr4kj]

Kinda crazy how in Beast Wars, (let’s ignore the spiders aren’t insects) there are technically two Predacons that are insects or reptiles aren’t Ravage and Rampage

[@gpla-ster9032]

First Beast Wars were Dinobot and Waspinator.

[@gabrielchee8470]

0:40 0:46 waspy gets beat up compilation (no repeats)

[@justinhillenburg9286]

Why advertisers hate Waspinator?

[@maximaldinotrap]

Huh, feels familiar

[@maladude808]

Beast wars and street sharks filled the toy bin

[@JamaicanScouser]

Polar claw ,transqito, cyber shark,Baboon,lion fish,dragon fly, never heard of them

[@transformersfan500okane3]

When I first saw the Intro of Beast Wars season 2, I actually thought the shot of Silverbolt was Polarclaw

[@mattb8754]

Also the exact save commercial plays twice in a row...... just like it did in real life!

[@julymedia752]

Nostalgic gut punch. BTW, Beast Wars was my introduction to the Transformers franchise. (Even before I discovered G1)

[@moseskuria1234]

Same here

[@monster-mecha_enthusiast_2002]

Same here along with the Unicron Trilogy and RID 2001, all 3 of them were worth it to me XD lol.

[@great159]

That Optimal Optimus name didn't stick in the show which is great. There's no way Megatron and Tigerhawk are Transmetal 2 since they never used the Transmetal 2 driver . Tigerhawk is a Transmetal Fuzor💯🤓

[@MidwestBoxin]

Seeing this for the first time in DECADES made me want to buy them all over again lol

[@cebucemagenaitap]

I didn't even like Transformers. Until Beast Wars came!

[@alexjessalexjess864]

Best toys ever

[@Activity159cm]

これ良く出来たおもちゃで大好きだったなー！

[@srikanthramprasad565]

Well Transformers with beast forms and organic forms weren’t new. You have in g1 where the Dinobots and Insecticons turned into mechanical animals rather than organic and the pretenders who had organic shells. Beast Wars was basically mechanical beings turning into actual organic animals.

[@EricPetersonJr]

I still have transmittal Tarantulas, Rampage, and fuzor Terrorgator.

[@Darklg23]

I miss my beast wars toys

[@patchrockit]

I had 60% of the original Maximals and 40% of the Predicon toys. I remember having the lion, eagle, etc that combined into a megabot. I forget the names now, but they were so cool. I went on summer vacation in high school and my parents sold them all at a garage sale. Yup.

[@andreyofdoom]

Brutal

[@Blakewyattdunfee]

Prowl the lion, Ironhide the elephant and silverbolt the eagle.

[@andreyofdoom]

And they combine into Magnaboss

[@patchrockit]

@@Blakewyattdunfee yuusss. effin nostalgia. I see new videos on youtube now saying "Go check walmart, look at all of these stacks of new old beast wars!"...i show up and they have a single random in the discount isle.

[@aosao4869]

懐かしすぎる！アップありがとう

[@MrAnthem123]

I didn't know there was mosquito and a baboon in Beast Wars before. The mosquito one actually has a really good looking third mode too. Also didn't know that Skybite was just Cybershark transmetal reused.

[@DarkAnon100]

There were actually many reused molds in Robots in Disguise (2001) besides Skybyte, Scourge was a recolor of the Laser Optimus Prime Figure, Fortress Maximus had a Toy in Japan, which was basically a retool/Redeco of the G1 Maximus

[@stuartspiker732]

The fact they had toys over here for the Japanese Cartoon, and never brought it over. Sure we had the CGI one for a few years, and had those toys.

[@nine_tails137]

This was my first exposure to Transformers. Also, I think the commercial got one character's name wrong? Apparently, Aqua Sting was going to be his original name, but then got changed to Injector. Also, I never saw the Dragon Megatron and Tigerhawk commercial back in the day, but I did see the others.

[@ianphillips1455]

And now let it be called BEAST WARS!😊

[@maxwelljrroble3761]

BEAST WARS