2000! (feels like a collecting kilometrestone)

* The Y2k Millenium Bug ends the world Some people begin prematurely referring to this year as the beginning of the new millenium and 21st Century, whereas in fact it was the final year of the old millenium and 20th Century. Maths, yo.
* Sydney hosts the Olympic Games, John Howard goes crowd surfing
* Australia introduces the GST
* Sony releases the PlayStation 2 in Japan
* Takara begins reissuing G1 Transformers
* Takara takes Beast Wars engineering and applies them to licensed vehicle modes, thus creating Transformers Car Robot. This would go on to inspire Transformers Binaltech/Alternators and Masterpiece. Meanwhile, Beast Machines continue to clog shelves and pegs in Hasbro markets.