The Transformers have had various incarnations including several animated series after the original series from the 80s ended. Most of these spin offs suck, but Beast Wars is one of the few that is actually good.

I’m still not a big fan of the CG animation in Beast Wars, but in terms of Transformers designs and story it’s good.

Coming November 1st a complete box will be released via general retailers. Earlier it was only available via Shout! Factory’s site.

Image and story via TVShowsonDVD

The coolest toyline in the Transformers universe has to be the Masterpiece versions. Starting with Optimus Prime as the first Masterpiece several have followed and coming September MP-10 will be introduced.

The only flaw in this series is the repetitive nature of the chosen Transformers and Takara has done it again for coming September’s release as Optimus Prime will get another re-re-release.

True, looking at the photos the new Optimus Masterpiece looks awesome but there are so many Transformer I’d like to see as well in the Masterpiece line which we haven’t seen yet.

For Optimus Prime we’ve already had the original version (MP-01), a white repaint, a black repaint and a trailer included version. So, even though it’s a new mold, this will be the 5th Optimus Prime based Masterpiece. Milking out? Hell yeah! Cool toy? Sadly, Yes!

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Challenge of the GoBots I’ve always considered to be a Transformers rip-off, a bad rip-off that is.

The designs of the GoBots are just so cheap and ridiculous. The series itself it just too childish, which isn’t that weird considering it’s made by family friendly toon studio Hanna Barbera. The human characters are so annoying I wished each episode Cykill would actually kill them.

But at some point Challenge of the GoBots becomes so bad, it somehow becomes intruiging.

Last month WB released a few Challenge of the GoBots episodes on DVD via their Manufacture-on-Demand program. Even though I think Challenge of the GoBots sucks, as an animation fan I’m somehow still compelled to get myself a copy to see just how bad it is.

Even though lots of classic cartoon series have made their way to DVD by now, there are still some series not available (in all regions) and some releases out of print in the mean while.

Last couple of week TVShowsOnDVD has reported several series getting a new release on DVD .

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So the third Transformers movie is going to premiere in 5 months and last weekend during the Superbowl the first trailer showing something about the new movie was shown.

Forget the teaser trailer in which nothing was to be seen, the new trailer actually shows the bots again! And from the looks it seems there’s lots more action.

Still nothing about the story, but then again how much story was there in the first two movies anyway?

After being disappointed with the 2nd movie I hope Bay did focus a little bit attention on the story though.

It seems Transformers 3 Dark of the Moon is only a few months away from release (expected release July 2011) and the first trailer popped up this week.

Transformers Dark of the Moon trailer
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Not much is revealed about the plot or Transformers included in the movie but more trailers will come out soon I guess.

I just hope Transformers 3 won’t suck as much as 2.