Ben Yee

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Benson "Ben" Yee is an American comic book writer and fandom consultant.

Ben began his Transformers involvement as one of the many fans posting to alt.toys.transformers. While the Beast Wars cartoon was in production, writers Larry DiTillio and Bob Forward frequently interacted with fans on ATT, and struck up friendships with a number of them. Ben became the first of many fans to be given a shout-out during the course of the Beast Wars cartoon: during the episode "Dark Designs", Waspinator is knocked for a loop and declares that he is "Wonko the Sane", in reference to Ben's screen name at the time (the screen name itself, of course, comes from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books.)

When the Beast Wars story editors decided to do a plot drawing heavily on the Generation 1 cartoon (the Season 2 finale 3-parter "The Agenda"), they turned to the fandom, recruiting Ben as a "Transformers consultant". Yee's involvement led to the selection of Ravage as a guest star. Yee is listed in the show's credits, the only fan to receive such an honor.

Ben would later go on to more heavy and direct involvement with official story production, as a writer for the fan club, and working with Simon Furman on IDW's Beast Wars source books.

Ben is also noted in the fandom for running a long-standing personal Transformers web site, which hosts the episode scripts for many Beast Wars episodes. Although offline for most of 2008, it has been announced that it will return in October.

Writer

Generation One

• The Transformers: The Movie (1986) Sony BMG 2006 DVD (Consultant and "Matrix of Knowledge" contributor)

Beast Wars

• The Agenda (Part III) (Transformers consultant)
• Beast Wars The Gathering (Script Consultant)
• Beast Wars Sourcebook
• Commentary, Madman Entertainment's Region 4 Beast Wars DVD sets

Timelines

• Descent into Evil (writer)
• Dawn of Future's Past (story consultant)
• Dark Heart of Sandokan
• The Razor's Edge
• Shattered Glass

Fiction

Beast Wars: Visitations script reading

Megatron blasted Ben Yee for disclosing his whereabouts on his website, enabling Antagony to locate him. Wonko the Sane died in a pool of his own gore. Visitations

External links

• Ben's World of Transformers
• Visitations script at botcon.com
• Fanatical Television Show appearance
• Mass Appeal Magazine interview
• Associated Press interview