Beast Wars: Transformers.

Now, this has to be one of the most sussessful cartoons ever made as it even had me captivated and i still wanna watch this cartoon and complete the whole series.

Beast Wars: Transformers is a Transformers toyline released by Hasbro between 1995 and 1999, and a full-CG animated television series spawned by it that debuted in 1996. The Emmy Award-winning series was set in the "original" Transformers universe as a sequel to the original series (which was later rebooted by various limited comic book stories from several companies including Dreamwave comics and IDW).

The two main factions of robot "Transformers" are descendants of the two main factions in the original cartoon series: the Maximals are the descendants of the Autobots and the Predacons are the descendants of the Decepticons. The names were intended to stem from the terms Mammal and Predator[citation needed] but were not necessarily consistent with the alternate forms of the Transformers. (In Beast Machines, the process during which Autobots and Decepticons became Maximals and Predacons is respectively referred to as the "The Great Upgrade".)

The leader of the Predacon team is Megatron. He and his forces are a splinter group on the hunt for powerful crystals known as Energon, to be used in a ploy for power and dominance. They do this with the aid of artifacts known as the Golden Disk and Megatron's stolen ship, the Darksyde, which is equipped with a transwarp drive. A Maximal exploration ship, the Axalon, led by Optimus Primal, is sent to stop them. Together the ships plunge through a time/space phenomenon created by the transwarp device during their battle in space, and crash-land on a mysterious planet.

Well, even though this cartoon turned heads of every cool kid, it also had load of violence nad these kid might have tried out some of the stunts involved.dude i gotta tell u the fighting scenes were really good and had some hardcore action that u every cool kid wud wana be involved in. And damn, the weaponry used: the laser guns, the canons, the rotating swords machine guns(rhinox), were so high tech defence material that everyone who saw it would want it for themselves. the same was shown in the actual movie of transformers, the same high tech weaponry, especially 'ironhide's' canons, even i wish that i had those....
n i believe that most kids also had the same perception. they would also wana be superhero characters and wats there stopping them from trying out.

For info on either beast wars of transformers cut and paste the sites listed below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_Wars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Beast_Wars_characters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers_(film)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCMOGPX8-I8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds7NBsHxBZE