Beast Machines/Trivia

• Fan Nickname: Big Floating Head for the Grand Mal, since the thing was never given a name in-show, and its true name was only gleaned by reading the scripts.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Outside of the returning voice cast from Beast Wars (Gary Chalk, David Kaye, Scott McNeil, Venus Terzo, Richard Newman, Ian James Corlett, and Jim Byrnes, albeit with Byrnes in a different role), Alessandro Juliani (L) voices Nightscream, Paul Dobson (Naraku) voices Tankor and Obsidian, Kathleen Barr (Dot Matrix) voices Botanica, Brian Drummond (Ryuk) voices Jetstorm, and Patricia Drake (Balalaika) voices Strika.
• The Other Darrin: Brian Drummond starts as Jetstorm. Scott McNeil returns once he's changed into Silverbolt.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Story editor Bob Skir really wanted Nightscream to be a female transformer, with a design and personality much like Newt from Aliens - he even "argued 'til I was blue that our new bat be female", to no avail. Executive Meddling ensued. As such, the character ended up an Expy of John Connor from Terminator 2.
  • Transtech, the similarly-scrapped sequel to Beast Machines.
  • There was originally to be a small section with Obsidian and Strika falling back to Cybertron and refusing an upgrade as self-punishment for their actions while Megatron misled them. It was cut due to time constraints.

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