1.33:1 Region: Region 4 Classification: PG (Parental Guidance) Beast Machines – Transformers: Season 2 – Volumes 1 & 2 DVD Release Date: 23 October 2007 Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Region: Region 4 Classification: PG (Parental Guidance) US / Canada Beast Machines: Transformers – The Complete Series Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Language: English Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only) Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audio: 5.1 Dolby Surround & 2.0 Stereo Number of discs: 4 Rating: Not Rated Studio: Shout! Factory DVD Release Date: September 2, 2014 Run Time: 690 minutes Other information Written into a special edition comic book was a character by the name of Primal Prime. Appearing only in this book, he is a side character to the Beast Machines story and was later written into the toy lines of both Beast Machines and Transformers: Universe. In the Universe story line, he eventually gains a new body, which combined with Apelinq to create Sentinel Maximus. The head writers used to post and answer questions on a message board known as Bottalk. Toys The Hasbro toys for Beast Machines are infamous for the fact that many bear little resemblance to the characters on the show, in both shape and color. They were also scaled out of proportion to each other. The reason for this was that although basic concept sketches were made of the major characters, the show creators and toy creators developed the characters independently from that point in the first year. After the first year of toys was released, a number of slightly more show-accurate toys were released. Many of the characters created as toys never made it on the television series, although some did appear in the comic books. Oddly, the transforming plant Botanica from the television series was not made into a toy for any of the related toy lines. Another characteristic of this toy line was its packaging. Unlike other Transformers lines, wherein each toy had a photo or illustration of themselves on the front of the packaging, almost all Beast Machines packages had an illustration of Cheetor on the front – regardless of character or faction. The one exception was Nightscream. The toys released in the Beast Wars Returns (a release of Beast Machines in Japan) toy line by Takara were recolored to more closely resemble the show colors. Molds from the drones in the Vehicon Army, which