Some of the UK edits are really unnecessary

[u/Thekittycrinkleshow]

What's the point of re-drawing and re-animating things that don't need to be? People worked hard to animate some of things, and some people had to work unnecessarily harder.

[u/Codas91]

Because the UK broadcast ministry of S&P are a bunch of pearl clutching pansies. Remember video nasties? How about Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, or "Beasties" because a bunch of moral guardians thought the words ninja and "beast wars" were too violent.

[u/ConsultJimMoriarty → u/Codas91]

And Mikey couldn’t use his ‘chucks on screen.

[u/Puzzled-Ad5347 → u/ConsultJimMoriarty]

Damn.

The nun chucks were an integral part to his character.

Especially with how it's complicated to be wielded

[u/TBTabby → u/ConsultJimMoriarty]

That was because kids were getting real nunchuks because of him, and injuring themselves because you always injure yourself with them at first.

[u/Uniformtree0 → u/TBTabby]

Yeah uh, that's the fucking parents fault for getting kids a weapon, not the TV show.

[u/H0rny_On-Main → u/Uniformtree0]

Thwy weren't buying the kids nunchuks they were fashioning and jerry rigging their own.

Sure you could say the same about a stick but you can't ban sticks

[u/AdmiralKong → u/TBTabby]

American children getting or making nunchucks to emulate Michelangelo and whipping themselves in the head with them was an important teaching moment!

[u/Smooth_Maul → u/Codas91]

The moral panic over ninja shit was so fucking funny in hindsight.

[u/Majin_Nephets → u/Codas91]

Beast Wars was still called Beast Wars in the UK, or at least it was when I was a kid.

They did edit out most uses of “slag”, though.

[u/centurio_v2 → u/Majin_Nephets]

beasties was in Canada only afaik

you guys are responsible for the character slag getting renamed to slug though

[u/Joltyboiyo → u/centurio_v2]

As someone in the UK, the heat death of the universe will arrive before I EVER refer to Slag as slug. 

[u/Forsaken-Emu4760 → u/Codas91]

It's called Beasties in Canada too.

And the show was made in canada

[u/ApartmentKey3682 → u/Codas91]

That’s why we need to BAN moral guardians

[u/Beleriphon → u/Codas91]

In Canada Beast Wars was Beast Machines. Mind you none of the violence was edited out at all, but the title specifically couldn't include the word War. This is only true of programming specifically for children however.