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Transformers: Beast Wars Telemocha Series (トランスフォーマー ビーストウォーズ テレもちゃシリーズ) is the Japanese counterpart to the Transformers: Beast Wars 10th Anniversary line. The Telemocha Series features old Beast Wars molds redecoed to be show-accurate.

All toys come with a DVD containing an episode (or two) of the first season of the Beast Wars show, along with a photo-montage short called a "Diorama Story" that was tied into a cross-promotion with the Japanese release of the live-action movie's Fast Action Battlers line. These shorts depicted the figures interacting in a diorama, and together with a blurb on the Fast Action Battlers' packaging, presented a scenario in which the Autobots and Decepticons of the movie universe were somehow transported across the dimensions into the midst of the Beast Wars.

"Telemocha" is a combination of the words "television" (テレビジョン) and "omocha" (おもちゃ), the Japanese word for "toy". "Teletoy", essentially.

Toys

Wave 1 (March 22, 2007) TM-01 Convoy (w/ "Beat the Destrons") TM-02 Megatron (w/ "Operation: Time Bomb Transfer")		TM-03 Cheetus (w/ "Convoy Disappeared") TM-04 Waspeeter (w/ "The Aerial Mountain Explodes")		TM-05 Dinobot (w/ "A Terrifying New Weapon!") TM-06 Blackwidow (w/ "The Deadly Virus")		TM-07 Colada (w/ "Goodbye, Rattle!?") TM-08 Archadis (w/ "Around and Around the Jungle")		TM-09 Rhinox TM-10 Wolfang, a new non-show character.
Wave 2 (April 26) TM-09 Rhinox (w/ "Cheetus's Crisis")		Wave 3 (May 24) TM-10 Wolfang (w/ "Kick of the Spider Woman")		Wave 4 (June 28) TM-11 Tigatron (w/ "The Solitary Warrior Tigatron")		Wave 5 (August 9) TM-12 Gimlet (w/ "Falcon Warrior Airrazor")
Wave 6 (September 20) TM-13 Motorarm (w/ "The Immortal Starscream")		Wave 7 (October 25) TM-SP DX Convoy (w/ "Super Lifeform Transformers Appear" and "Make a Dramatic Comeback, Destrons")		TM-SP DX Megatron (w/ "Floating Island Death Match Part 1" and "Floating Island Death Match Part 2")		Raffle prize TM-PR Dragoyell

Notes

• While TakaraTomy reissued two of Tripledacus's components, namely Gimlet and Motorarm, as part of the Telemocha Series, they omitted DJ from the line-up. Therefore, the only way to complete Tripledacus from the Telemocha releases would be by using an original DJ toy.
• At some point during the planning for the Telemocha Series, the idea was tossed around to create some brand new toys for the line. Internal TakaraTomy documents include designs for a jellyfish, a manticore, and a triffid.

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  Jellyfish, later characterized as Rage

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  Manticore, later characterized as Manticon

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  Triffid, later characterized as Flytrap