r/beastwars

It's no secret that Beast Machines is a colossal sequel failure because the TV network producers told the new writing team not to watch Beast Wars, so they made a lot of questionable choices.

But the biggest one that I can't shake is this idea that Megatron builds a perfect replica of the Optimal Optimus Body. This makes no sense for these reasons.

1. How can perfect design specs for that body exist on Cybertron when Primal first got that body on a different planet millions of years before Beast Machines? Cybertron couldn't have cataloged or recorded it.
2. Primal got that body from merging his spark with Optimus-the-freaking-Prime's spark, and that mutated him into Optimal. Megatron can't replicate that, considering Prime is apparently long dead

by the time of Beast

1. Machines.
2. When Primal first arrived on Cybertron, he was immediately exposed to Megatron's virus, which changed him back to his original Season 1 BW body. He wasn't captured and had his spark removed like Rhinox and Silverbolt; his body simply regressed back into his original form. So it technically no longer exists.

So now we have these issues: there's no way to back up the body when it was on another planet, no way to replicate the conditions to create it, and it physically no longer exists for Megatron to use.

He had 3 different bodies and some great character development on the show. What is your favorite version of Cheetor and why?

Thanks to the support of my wife my collection has exploded from a transmetal rattrap and rhinox to this. Its been a heck of a ride with plenty of road ahead.

Happy hunting everyone!

A lot of Beast Wars and regular transformer figures from Japan.

Many of the Beast Wars are Japanese exclusive versions of the figures. I got a lot of Japanese figures I was eyeing on eBay I wanted! I am happy with my purchases!

What do you think of this collection?

So I decided to test how well I know Beast Wars from drawing the characters from memory based on all the time I’ve spent playing with the toys and rewatching the show.

After doing so, I compare it with the actual character design to see how I fared.

Beast mode is simple enough to draw - it’s a velociraptor, I love dinosaurs. I know that Dinobot in his beast form is a thick boy so I made sure to make his hip wide enough, but in doing so I also made him a lot thicker as a whole whereas the show model has a more slender shape. I also wasn’t able to capture the cunningness of his eyes - it always looked like he was always plotting something with those eyes in the show. Moreover, webbed claws! I didn’t realize until just now Dinobot has webbed claws.

When it comes to the robot form, that’s when the problems really come in. Somehow I forgot that Dinobot has a third primary color of orange/gold. I remember what his face looked like but I could barely recall what his helmet piece looked like. I know there were metallic bones/spines incorporated all over his robot form but I forgot what their general placements are. And my crotch piece for him was just an afterthought. I also knew that Dinobot has a really really muscular/bodybuilder build with really wide shoulders, but I still wasn’t able to capture even after widening the shoulders in mine.

Anyway, still a good challenge for myself and an ok attempt. 4/10