Transformers Beast Wars Inferno Box With "Scavenger" Early Working Name

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  1. Black Convoy

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    I'm gonna be honest here....the pic of Inferno on the front page got me excited that a Kingdom one was on the way. :lol 
     
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    scavenger makes more sense for an ant name
     
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    Wake me when they put that in Kingdom.
     
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    But far less sense for the flamethrower-toting lovable lunatic on the show.
     
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    "We never had any proof of the connection between Scavenger toy and the original Inferno"

    Isn't there a Toyfair 98 picture in a Tomart with an Early Scavenger carrying the Inferno name?

    EDIT: TFWiki thinks so Scavenger (BW) - Transformers Wiki

    It's gone midnight here in the UK. If nobody has found the image by the morning I'll dig my Tomarts out and scan the image
     
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  7. Purple Heart

    Purple Heart Some other time..

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    Neat find, but we’ve known that Scavenger was intended to Inferno for 20+ years. Inferno was shelfwarming hard, so Hasbro renamed his transmetal figure out of fear stores wouldn’t want any more stock of a character who wasn’t selling.

    Then, Scavenger shelfwarmed even worse.
    Fucking Takara sold theirs as Inferno(or whatever they called him) iirc. Not to mention the fact that they look the same.



    EDIT: OOOH.
    My bad. This implies Scavenger was Inferno’s original name. How things came full circle!
     
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    If they have to rename Inferno to Scavenger to get him into Kingdom, fine by me!
     
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    Okay, now i'm curious as to why Inferno ended up shelfwarming so much?
     
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    Mostly because he was packaged in beast mode. It’s not a great alt mode, looked cheap with all the translucent plastic, and was posed awkwardly.

    Put that dude in robot mode with a cool pose from the show and he would’ve sold a lot better.
     
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    I always figured it was raw overproduction, and that ANY character/toy would have shelfwarmed with that many per store. There were always a ridiculous number right from the start IIRC. As of entire pallets of nothing but solid cases of him were shipped to stores.
     
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    Fascinating! It’s always a pleasure to discover bits of behind the scenes lore like this.
     
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    I knew it was gonna be Scavenger!
     
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    I'd prefer Inferno or Scavenger to "Scavenber" lol
     
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    I Hope he\'s in Kingdom.
     
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    I really want a better Inferno.
     
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    He’s not rumored to be a general retail release for Kingdom. There’s a chance he could be released as an exclusive, but @Pixelmaster has said that Tarantulas, Terrorsaur, and Inferno are only planned to be given Generations updates by Hasbro if Kingdom does well. (As always, take that info with a grain of salt.) I wouldn’t expect Inferno until the next Generations line at the soonest.
     
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    Neat to see it come full circle here. I think either is a good name, but it's annoying that they couldn't be consistent, whatever the reasoning. I've always called the TransMetal Inferno, it's very obvious that's who he is.
     
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    IDW making Scavenger a separate character didn’t help the situation.
     
  20. POSSESSED_DIGIT

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    Well he was a red fire ant. So Inferno made more sense there.
     
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