Beast Machines: Transformers (franchise)

Beast Machines was a followup franchise to the very successful Beast Wars. It included several returning characters and the associated fiction directly followed the storyline of the BW cartoon.

Beast Machines featured a distinctive visual style in both toy design and the art design of its teleivison series. Additionally, it reintroduced Transformers which turn into machinery instead of animals with the new faction known as Vehicons.

The Beast Machines franchise featured the following primary components:

• A toyline
• A cartoon series

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