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Transformers Beast Machines 3-Disc Box Set DVD
Transformers: Beast Machines is the late-90s and early-2000s Transformers animated series that picks up directly after Beast Wars, returning Optimus Primal and the surviving Maximals to a barren, fully roboticized Cybertron where Megatron has wiped out organic life and rebuilt the planet around himself. The show ran across Fox Kids, YTV, and Toonami from 1999 into 2000, with 26 episodes split across two seasons that move the franchise's mythology in a much darker, more philosophical direction than its predecessor did.
What stands out is the series' commitment to a heavier tone. Each episode pushes the surviving Maximals through identity crises, religious-leaning prophecies, and the central conflict between Cybertron's organic and technological natures, with the central war shaped more like a serialized drama than a toy-driven mission-of-the-week. The CGI animation is more polished than Beast Wars, the character designs lean angular and minimalist, and the writing leans on a slow-build cosmic mythology.
It belongs to a specific late-90s and early-2000s Transformers animation moment when Hasbro and Mainframe Entertainment were pushing the franchise's CGI runs into more ambitious storytelling territory. For Transformers fans, Beast Machines is one of the most deliberately strange and divisive entries in the broader animated catalog.
Highlights in the set include "The Reformatting," "Revelations, Part I- Discovery," "End Of The Line," "In Darkest Knight," "Sparkwar Part I- The Strike," and "Endgame Part III- Seeds Of The Future," episodes that capture both the show's mythology arcs and its biggest finale stakes. This 3-DVD collection gathers all 26 episodes across both seasons, the complete Beast Machines run in one place.
More Information: IMDB, Wikipedia.
26 Total Episodes on 3 DVDs:
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 1 Episode 1 - The Reformatting
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 1 Episode 2 - Master Of The House
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 1 Episode 3 - Fires Of The Past
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 1 Episode 4 - Mercenary Pursuits
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 1 Episode 5 - Forbidden Fruit
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 1 Episode 6 - The Weak Component
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 1 Episode 7 - Revelations, Part I- Discovery
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 1 Episode 8 - Revelations, Part II- Descent
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 1 Episode 9 - Revelations, Part III- Apocalypse
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 1 Episode 10 - Survivor
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 1 Episode 11 - The Key
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 1 Episode 12 - The Catalyst
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 1 Episode 13 - End Of The Line
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 2 Episode 1 - Fallout
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 2 Episode 2 - Savage Noble
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 2 Episode 3 - Prometheus Unbound
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 2 Episode 4 - In Darkest Knight
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 2 Episode 5 - A Wolf In The Fold
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 2 Episode 6 - Home Soil
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 2 Episode 7 - Sparkwar Part I- The Strike
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 2 Episode 8 - Sparkwar Part II- The Search
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 2 Episode 9 - Sparkwar Part III- The Siege
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 2 Episode 10 - Spark Of Darkness
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 2 Episode 11 - Endgame Part I- The Downward Spiral
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 2 Episode 12 - Endgame Part II- Wheends Fall
Transformers Beast- Machines Season 2 Episode 13 - Endgame Part III- Seeds Of The Future
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