25 years ago, a now-obscure Transformers anime took the concept of the Beast Wars subseries in a much different direction.

It's also being translated as "Wildoking" or "Wildocking," evoking both the Japanese pronunciation ... of the evergreen ...

In Beast Machines, it’s theorized that the mechanical Transformers had actually migrated to Cybertron, a planet originally filled with biological life that Transformers eventually copied.