How is that? What's the story on that?

 

I think it was revealed in an interview with either Bob or Larry, but again, since it never made it to the screen it doesn't need to be adhered to.

 

Not just that.. but it appears they altered Rattrap and Megatron's original heads (Season 1) and other one looks like Transmutate, if not, I don't know what else.

 

Swarm only consumed Mechanical life-forms. Humans werent effected.

How is being released by a (then)fan-run convention make it an official release? Simon wrote the bio for TFauctions.com's mascot, but that doesnt make him official either.

 

If you say that the convention comics aren't any more official than fan fiction than the convention exclusive figures are nothing more than kitbashes. Didn't Hasbro put the okay on those stories?

As for Tarantulas, either way being decended from the second generation Decepticons or Unicron, I would love to hear more stories about it. IDW, make Beast Wars monthly. Or even weekly.  

 

If you go by Cartoon continuity only. The Tripedacus council are more likely Quintesson agents.

Remember RID Bruticus ,which was meant for BM, in robot mode had three faces of the Tripedacus council.

If BM had not ended in two seasons and the toy was introduced as a character it would probably represent the missing Predacons in the story.

In the Marvel UK comic the Quintessons are Spawns of Unicron.

 

Furman's "Transformers Ultimate Guide" book from DK publishing states that Tarantulas has "Dark Science" links that connect back to Unicron, though it doesn't specifically state that Tarant was directly or indirectly spawned by Unicron.

So that clears it up!  

 

That was my take as well, but for whatever reason, one of the BW producers (I want to say Forward) was pushing the scenario that the Swarm devoured our entire species, and then after their enlightenment felt exceptional remorse and devoted themselves to the protection of the universe or something. Been awhile since I watched the interview.

 

There's a lot more info behind this then I thought...thanks for everyone who have been participating it's a big help.

 

I think the "Reaching the Omega Point" comics were released when Botcon was just a fan run convention, but "Wreckers", "Universe" and "Primeval Dawn" were released back when 3H had the license, so I'm guessing that makes those comics as official (licensor approved) as the stuff published by Marvel, Dreamwave and IDW.

-airfox