Beast Era (Wars/Machines/etc.) Appreciation Thread

Discussion in 'Transformers Toy Discussion' started by Snaptrap, Jan 12, 2012.

  1. Sonic Eclipse

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    Even in the MLP universe there is a Tigatron protecting wild life. What a guy lol.

    I also didn't like how Cheetor's hands could come off, but this never occured to me. Great observation.
     
  2. KABAR432

    KABAR432 giving beasts a forever home

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    hmm.. I can't remember but I think that joint there is a slider.

    If they somehow found a way to make it swivel outward. then they could easily pull that wrist rocket look off.
     
  3. Beowulfx

    Beowulfx Beast Mode

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    I just want a very nice MP quality BlackArachnia to fit in with the others.
     
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  4. Verno

    Verno Beast Wars Collector

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    From the upcoming Transformers #1:

    A NEW ERA DAWNS! In the infinite universe, there exists a planet like no other: Cybertron! Home to the Transformers, and a thriving hub for inter-stellar commerce, it is a world brimming with organic and constructed diversity. Immense structures line its landscape. Mechanical giants roam across its surface. Starship-sized titans orbit its skies, keeping a constant protective watch above and below.

    There's a word in there that should jump out at Beast Wars fans: organic. Could we see the likes of Optimus Primal alongside Optimus Prime, with organic beast-modes a norm on this new Cybertron?

    IDW gave us a very small glimpse of what it would be like to have our favourite Beast Wars characters as contemporaries of Starscream and the like, but ultimately were incredibly underutilised (read: wasted).

    We shall get more of an idea come March I guess.
     
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  5. Goldimus Prime

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    Wow! Whatta gorgeous sig! Your work??

    Gosh, I hope you're right @Verno. Like you, when I saw that Hasbro was hinting at a BW 25th celebration AND that the new 3-year-cycle of Generations toys has to do with pre-modern-earth-war Transformer shenanigans my brain lit up with the possibility of a Beast Wars centric interval in that plan.

    It'll be fun to see if IDW starts seeding that cycle now.

    That said, it'd be fun to just simply see Cybertron as a more genetically diverse planet. G1 hinted at that with the "Dweller in the Depths" episode, and Beast Machines really bats it home... but we've yet to have a continuity that really showcases a world where the Transformers are only one species among an ecologically complete food-web. All the better if not every creature from Cybertron is circuitry based!
     
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  6. Nope

    Nope yscohb

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    Would be cool of course, but "hub for interstellar commerce" makes me think there will just be random aliens and stuff there for business (or pleasure).
     
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  7. Goldimus Prime

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    Ehhh, I pessimistically suspect you're more likely right, as IDW already played these cards with the Blackblock Consortia and the Galactic Council groups in the previous continuity. Or, MAYBE we'll get some Quintession action right off the bat! ;) 
     
  8. Verno

    Verno Beast Wars Collector

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    We're 35 years into this franchise. Siege and IDWs new comic look to be resetting the clock, again. It will be interesting to see if characters from other lines (BW etc) are all embraced as one, or treated at arm's length.
     
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  9. kaijuguy19

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    I'm sadly fully expecting to see no none G1 character in IDW's rebooted series in general let alone from the Beast Era to show up in a major role for a LONG time. Course I'd love to be proven wrong but still with Hasbro having more control this time it's likely that they want to stay focused on the G1 cast only.
     
  10. Dinotrap

    Dinotrap BEAST WARS FOREVER!

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    Beast Wars Next Generation :D 
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    The space beside dinobot is for the other ko os potp Dino’s, I decided to give optimal a crew of odd choices. It’s mostly custom and chug that had knowhere else to stand so I gave them a shelf to themselves :D 
     
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  12. Nope

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    Who's that Swoop custom behind Convobat? Looks like Energon almost.
     
  13. Dinotrap

    Dinotrap BEAST WARS FOREVER!

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    It’s the KO OS Potp swoop from black mamba :) 
     
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  14. MarikZero

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    Yeah, it's pretty clear that these figures are not meant for intensive play (which is a shame, considering they can transform).
    I'd love to have some KOs of them, so I could use those as play copies and keep the originals for exposition
     
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  15. Verno

    Verno Beast Wars Collector

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    Happy New Year, one and all!

    It's a shame Megs is delayed, but he's coming. Let's hope he's not the only Beast-related news in 2019.
     
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  16. Dinotrap

    Dinotrap BEAST WARS FOREVER!

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    Happy new year all.... let’s start it off with a bang :) 
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    Don’t worry this won’t turn out to be a sid situation :D 
     
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  17. BWfan86

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    what exactly is a color bomb?
     
  18. Dinotrap

    Dinotrap BEAST WARS FOREVER!

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    It’s a small array of colorful shots shot off one by one :) 
     
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  20. KABAR432

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    So guys with 2018 over with and 2019 on the horizon... here's to hoping we get a killer masterpiece repaint this year. I made this digibash for us to celebrate. It pulls a lot of inspiration from the Robot Masters version of the toy. If this was official it would be an insta-buy for me LOL. Cheers guys and happy new year!

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