So from appearance, Dinobot had a construction-looking vehicle alt mode. Being a honorable warrior reduced to doing manual labor, and lived as a second rate citizen, no wonder he joined Megatron despite their contradicting beliefs.

The voice quality makes it sound like an old CD rom point and click adventure. I love it. Has a rustic charm to it.

3:47-3:39 "im gonna do a weird disco dance now" [dies]

(From tfwiki) "Theft of the Golden Disc" began life as a dialogue-less fan animation by Trent Troop and Kristen Maxwell posted to KZfaq on May 9, 2006. The finished, canon remake was originally shown at Sunday, July 1, 2007, at the BotCon 2007 "Collectors' Club" panel. It premiered online on January 8, 2008.

Better animation than Foodfight.

All these years later, 3D CGI has become a lot more affordable, available and advanced, so I'd love to see someone do an updated HD version of this. If the original voice recording masters could be found, it'd be awesome to see. Still, this is fun despite being dated.

I love how every model is from transformers armada, energon, and cybertron but with different heads and symbols and such. (Except for the robot that was next to cryotech that was featured later in beast machines.)

Wow, this is pretty awesome. Beast Wars still remains as the best TF series since G1. It's good to see this is keeping BW alive.

It was commissioned for Botcon in 2006, made quickly by a small indie studio.

Great. I allways want to see this episode. When I ´m right it was on a VHS cassette in the set with Bat Optimus Primal and crocodile Megatron (the designs before the gorilla and the Tyrannosaurus rex). I found this video today. Years to late 😭 Thank you for the upload.

It is so weird seeing my beloved Beast Wars characters as vehicles. o_o

I loved their pre-Beast Wars designs as I read the short prequel comic to the series when I was younger all the time. But I always wondered why they were called Maximals and Predicons and essentially were based off of “beast” forms as seen in their insignias, but I always confused me how they all had normal vehicle modes on Cybertron. What confused me even more was how there were transformers like Dinobot who transformed into a tractor, but was still called “Dino” Bot. It didn’t make a lot of sense to me why they didn’t just call themselves Autobots and Decipticons or at least have beast forms on Cybertron.

I think Hasbro is pretty chill with that. I know they actually featured this vid at a convention. David Kay has also done fan-written script readings as Beast Wars Megatron and TFA Optimus at conventions along with a lot of other voice actors.

@FanimusMaximus - Yes... it REALLY is David Kaye's voice.

Outstanding prequel.

This is a very interesting looking, thing, I just came across. Seeing what some of the predacons looked like before getting their beast forms, and the animation looks like it was animated in Motion Capture. Its pretty interesting to look at.

Wow, very cool! Nice prequel to Beast Wars, and kudos on getting David Kaye to voice Megatron!

2:06 Anybody notice the Decepticon and Predacon symbols on the left shoulder and chest?

This would've made such a great bonus in the dvd's and those look like they'd make such cool toys.

There is something so addicting about this video...idk why

Who knew the floating drone things originated here... I honestly thought those were created specifically for Beast Machines

I love how the music has some bad early 2000s vibes to it. Gives me beast machines vibes in the best way lol

Cryotek is awesome...even if he didn't survive to see the Beast Wars...his alt mode is pretty awesome, too...even if it is just a blue repaint of Megatron's Dragon form...

“How Megatron started the Beast Wars”.

Great Job especially considering this is fan Made. Thanks for uploading

Oh my god, if that's not David Kaye then it's eerily close to him!! :D

The grafics look inferior to the beast wars but the animation i have to agree its much better.

Fantastic for a fan-video

Early animations, cool!

3:18 I need a Toy of that Autobot

Any chances for this getting a Blu-Ray restoration?

That $5 budget produced more awesome than I ever could have. XD

1:03 Cryotek had a Decepticon simbol 🤔

Feels like I’m watching the old version of toonami

Oceans Eleven transformers style.

It seems Beast Wars cybertron has first form of vehicle starting a flashback.

yes, it's David Kaye:)

is there a video somewhere that shows the original megatron's whole speech on the golden disk?

Cryotek: Shockblast(Energon) Megatron: Red Alert(Galaxy Force) Dinobot: Hoist(Armada) BackSlash : Skyblast(Energon) Waspinator: ??? The Helicopter Guy: Buzzsaw(Armada) Terrorsaur: ??? Scorponok: shortround(Galaxy Force)

Aww, I was hoping to hear waspinator... No one ever asks Scott to do these little tribute pieces. It's always David Kaye and/or Gary Chalk.

i feel like playing any old Playstation game

Anyone know of a video of this here on KZfaq with much clearer audio? Still sounds a hint muffled. I know this was from BotCon, but still, I was thinking somebody with the tech and know-how (not me, unfortunately) would be able to make it sound clear as a bell.

Incredible POWWA

You know what to do maxslash 🐺✨

Cyrotech sounds like original galvatron and cyberverse skybite.

Nice fan made prequel

...Wait was that really David Kaye's voice?

dinobot is just as cool as ever

I only recognize Megatron and Dinobot... that's it.

We finally get to see what the Maximals and Predacons look like before they gained their Beast Modes that also alter their robot forms.

Oh right on, a Beast Wars Prequel.

@vidmystery That is AWESOME! How'd they ever get him to do it; just call him up and say, "Hey, wanna star in a fan made movie?" :o

Oh Wow, Nice! =O But I wonder how they managed to get David Kay to voice Megatron...? Wouldn't there be some kind of licencing agreement/contract with the use of his voice on anything to do with Beast Wars...? Hmmmmm....=S

Sound quality's a bit...grainy...but it's SOOOOO nice to hear good ol' David Kaye Megatron again.

this looks like it was made in the 90s

I was thinking the same thing!

That Predacon with the construction arm; is he Dinobot!?

yesssss...

@impostergirl007, i know right! They must have just cgi forms of some. Megatron is red-alert, dinobot is hoist, wasp is starscream, and thats all i could see.

Prequel of beast wars

EPIC. But then again, I'm a child of the Beast Era, so I may be a bit biased.

yep^^

The character design seems heavily influenced from the Robots in Disguise and Armada/Energon series. I do have to say that it's clear the homework was done on this one as there are little hints to the Beast Wars (excellent show) and Beast Machines (not so great) series. Excellent voice acting, though the music was a tad droney. Can't wait to finish up with part 2.

Considering this is fan made, very nicely done

Right. So he must've read the Covenant of Primus before heisting the Golden Disk. Coolies. :)

yeeeeees... :P

damn straight! Beast Wars was the best story ever written for a Transformers TV series and IMO the 2nd best story ever written for Transformers outside of the G1 comics. It was a LOT better than the G1 cartoon.

where did you find this?

At least waspinator doesn’t get blown up in this

This was created specifically for BotCon. The original actors participated.

@Raptor302 2006, the exclusive toys that year were pre-earth Beast Wars characters.

mine too...

correct me if im wrong im guessing the guy at 2:42 is dinobot that green jet guy at 3:44 is waspinator & the red guy at 4:02 is terrorsaur

is that dirge from beast wars 2?

@zorotekz He has a Predacon insignia as well.

-puts hands together meniacally- yeesss..

This was a fan-made prequel to the Beast Wars saga, so it's a little shoddy, but not too bad. Especially since they got David Kay in on voicing Megatron. :)

@edenfire It's a part of Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club and written by the same who wrote the Shattered universe and the Transtech Universe.

awesomness, is that the same Dirge from Beast Wars 2?

Cryotek = Chris Hansen Megatron, why don't you take a seat

This isn't a fan video. It's official, it was released at Botcon 2007

@MrOptimus1984 Oh damn, how old is this thing?

@Raptor302 Not fan made, this was a Botcon exclusive video. That's actually David Kaye as Megatron. And why does Cryotek have both Predacon and Decepticon insignias?

This was created for the Transformers Collectors Club by Octavirate Entertainment.

the megatron impersonation is spot on, almost sounds like David Kaye.

With that talent he should still do some G1 stuff.

RIP Brad Venable

in space exploring

Still looks better than ps1 fmv

Megatron's first Yesssss

Gee, that's real nice of Scorponok. Blow his pal to bits after he saved his ass.

@warriorking4ever yes he is waspinator

lol thanks for the info =]

There was a golden disc in Beast Wars. And our government send a golden disc into space attached to a satellite. So that other life could know where we are at.

The name is BW: Dawn of Future's Past

both the bois just wanted to hear the golden record

the little bot floating over Cryotek's head is the same thing megatron gets trapped inside in Beast machines o.o

3:41 Is Buzzbomb even really shooting? his twin guns don't seem to fire lol

Did you do this yourself or was it from the original source?

@Jdkx Wasp is actually machine wars thundercracker