LOGON TO THIS MONTH'S ISSUE

WELCOME TO the premiere issue of Altered States Magazine! More...

TOYS FOR TALKERS
Christmas Comes Early

AT BOTCON 1998 in California, it was revealed that the voice actors of the BEAST WARS television show never get any free toys from Kenner -- more specifically, that they never received (or owned) any toys representing their characters on the show.

That did not sit well with TransFan Doug Dlin, who thought that the voice actors SHOULD have the toys for their characters. So in August of 1998, Doug contacted a number of his fellow TransFans and pitched a radical idea to them: what if they were to gather up the toys for every Beast Wars character who ever appeared on the show, and delivered them to the actors?

The idea was unanimously approved, and everyone volunteered to buy/scrounge/donate the needed toys in a scheme unofficially dubbed "Toys for Talkers." More...

"EVERYDAY PEOPLE" Part 1

OPTIMUS PRIME took stock of the situation. He and his team had been tracking Megatron and the Decepticons for several days now. Megatron had gotten some inside information about a new hydroelectric generator that worked more efficiently and effectively than anything humans had developed before. It was a prototype and still was not perfected. Yet even at a diminished capacity, the potential for such a device was immeasurable.

Or, at least, that's what Megatron thought. More...

IN HONOR of the premiere issue, we've got not one, but two contests you can enter! You can enter the Name the Beast Wars Crew Contest or Name Phil's Car Contest -- or both! The winner of each contest receives a limited edition Wal-Mart Transmetal Rattrap! More...

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