 The first miniseries, "", was released between February and May 2006.The second miniseries, "", was a direct sequel and debuted in October 2007.After "Beast Machines" finished airing in 2000, there was no official revisiting of the Transformers continuity established by the "Beast Wars" animated series until after publisher Dreamwave Productions acquired the rights to the "Transformers" comic franchise from Hasbro.