with his alternate mode being particularly unique among the franchise. Beast Wars Neo was notable for the fact that the beast modes of both the Maximals and the Predacons had largely never been ...

So in this movie, we’re bringing in the Maximals for the very first time.” Hailing from the Emmy-winning animated series that spawned the Beast Wars franchise, the Beasts “have been on Earth ...

Of course, the real reason the Maximals go beast-mode is that in 1996 Hasbro wanted to revamp a flagging Transformers toyline, and somebody decided that trucks were out and monkeys were in.

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook As noticed by SFF Gazette, four of the Maximals from Transformers: Rise of the Beasts appear ...

this meant his robot legs partially transformed into a surfboard for the gorilla mode. The ’90s, folks!) Three hundred years into the future of the Transformers setting, when Maximals rule ...

The Maximals are led by Optimus Primal, who comes in to warn Optimus Prime about the incoming threat of Unicron and his followers, the Terrocons. The original Beast Wars series began 300 years in ...

Meet Optimus Primal and the Maximals, your newest Transformers, in the first trailer for “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” from Paramount Pictures. Watch the embed above. Paramount also ...

The main wrinkle – beyond the introduction of animal-shaped Transformers known as Maximals – involves setting the action in 1994, although other than the well-chosen musical soundtrack and a ...