Transformers: Beast Wars is a Transformers toyline released by Hasbro

Hasbro

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 between 1995 and 2000, and a Daytime Emmy Award

Daytime Emmy Award

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 winning full-CG

Computer graphics

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 animated television series spawned by it that debuted in 1996. The series was set in the future of the "original" Transformers

Transformers: Generation 1

Transformers: Generation 1 was the original Transformers toy line that produced from 1985 to 1992 and actually lasted longer than the G1 1980s television series itself...

universe as a sequel to the first Transformers series (which has since been rebooted

Reboot (continuity)

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 in limited comic book stories by Dreamwave

Dreamwave Productions

Dreamwave Productions was a Canadian art design studio and comic book publisher founded in 1996 and is best known for their multiple Transformers comic book series...

 and IDW

IDW Publishing

IDW Publishing, also known as Idea + Design Works, LLC and IDW, is an American publisher of comic books and comic strip collections. The company was founded in 1999 and has been awarded the title "Publisher of the Year Under 5% Market Share" for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Diamond Comic...

 among others).

The Beast Wars TV series was produced by Mainframe Entertainment

Mainframe Entertainment

Rainmaker Entertainment, Inc. is a Canadian computer animation and design company based in Vancouver, British Columbia and Los Angeles, California. It produces computer animation TV series and movies. They are best known for producing the first ever CGI animated series ReBoot, as well as the...

 of Canada

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; its story editors were Bob Forward

Bob Forward

Robert D. Forward , commonly known as Bob Forward, is an American writer, director and producer. Forward is the production director and president of his independent company, Detonation Films. Forward has been the writer of many animated television series, as well as a film, The Owl, based on his...

 and Larry DiTillio

Larry DiTillio

Lawrence G. "Larry" DiTillio is an American film and TV series writer. He is most famous for his role as executive story editor of the science-fiction series Babylon 5, and for writing or co-writing most of the episodes in the animated series Beast Wars...

.