Beast Wars were some of my most sought after toys when I was a young kid, I believe I was around the age of 6 or 7. They had those awesome commercials, and they tied in with that super cool 3d show! It looked sooo real. I was hooked. Sadly, the series ended after 3 seasons and just 52 episodes. There was the sequel Beast Machines, but I didn't care for it as a kid. Most of the characters were gone, the remaining characters hardly resembled real animals anymore. I lost interest.
Now, it feels as if every last entertainment property from my childhood has been remade in some form at this point in my life; Disney films, Power Rangers, dozens of games such as Pokemon Red/Blue or Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Star Wars has been revived twice.
Transformers became a live action film in 2007.
This movie raked in $709.7 million dollars at the box office, with it's first sequel bringing in $836 million, and then so forth with 3 more sequels bringing in 1.123 billion, 1.104 billion and 605 million from The Last Knight. Last year's Bumblebee spinoff made 458 million. It seems like people are growing weary of going to see Transformers movies after so many have been produced. The series needs a fresh take to draw audiences back in.
Enter Beast Wars.
Things kids would love:
- Animals ✓
- Talking Animals ✓
- Dinosaurs ✓
- Robots ✓
- Animals and Dinosaurs Transforming into Robots ✓
- Fighting Robot Animal/Dinosaurs ✓
- Toys and merchandise of talking, fighting robot animal dinosaurs ✓
I'll also end with this; CGI has come so far on animals. Look at these examples.
Imagine a Beast Wars movie with the level of detail that movies like Planet of the Apes, Jon Favreau's Jungle Book or Lion King have.
Beast Wars is lightning in a bottle, waiting to happen.
