The stories involving Magmatron and Razorbeast were pretty much used for IDW's The Gathering, which i think was probably the more intrguing story between it and the progress of Primal and his crew, tho' i do wonder why only Rattrap was seeing 'the phantoms'.
Because he was the comedian of the bunch. It makes it more funny I guess because you see it threw his eyes instead of say cheetor eye's which would more boring I guess.
Read it. It's a mix of DW's Beast Wars special and IDW's Gathering # 1. The original script so to speak.
Interesting, it's almost like it was made to link in, explaining how Megatron got back to Cybertron first (since some of this seems to match what was seen in Beast Machines) and Simon Furman did say he felt the gap between series left some unused potential. Though I do prefer the IDW story. More focus on the unused characters, and the Ascending finally provides Second and Neo a place in the overall continuity.