Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Trailer Reveals Optimus Primal

Forget the ’80s nostalgia craze that began with Netflix’s Stranger Things, because the ’90s are coming back hot with revivals across the pop culture spectrum.

Beast Wars: Transformers was a hit CGI animated series that ran between 1996 and 1999 and was the next iteration of Hasbro’s toy-based franchise that had its origins in the Transformers Generation 1 series and feature film released in the mid-1980s Fandom exploded. The narrative took place hundreds of years after the events of the first animated series, on a very different prehistoric earth.