Transformers Thread

…Are the Beast Wars: The Gathering and its sequel (forgot what the sequel was called) in the same continuity as the rest of IDW’s G1 stuff?

@Jarkes  
not sure.

@Jarkes  
No, that was another, can’t remember who.  
Break’s shell stays attached to the bot under it.

@OptimusPrimevil
 
I think the more recent stuff has new incarnations of characters like Rattrap and Waspinator that don’t have beast modes though…

@Prof.NightJack
 
…Wait, that WAS Big Convoy that had the “shell that you can reassemble apart from the robot”.
 
I think there was another Beast Wars Neo toy that was that kind of shellformer…

@Jarkes  

 
 
@Prof.NightJack  
ah!

Break was one of the BW Neo toys with a “weapon mode”.  
 
Yes, it looks silly/stupid, like most of the “weapon modes”.

@Jarkes  
No they’re supposed to be in continuity with the show which are in continuity with G1 mostly the cartoon (and Dreamwave tried to make their stuff the past of BW).
 
Plus IDW’s main timeline already introduced BW characters.
 

Anyone seen the third modes of Neo and think they make even the worst of the pseudo-vehicle modes from the Transmetals look less silly/stupid?

@Prof.NightJack  
pretty much the only third mode that worked for me was guiledart’s possum mode.

I’ve heard that the Beast Wars Sourcebook was bad and was weird about Beast Wars II and Neo characters.
 
Like Moon’s entry having no levity whatsoever and deliberately contrarian bios. (Like saying that Diver is brave, and that Hardhead is a natural leader that’s good at following strategies)

@Prof.NightJack  
 
we will never seen twilight sparkle prime’s “kill me” third mode

@OptimusPrimevil  
I don’t know why but the tail not being a hunk of plastic is what get me with that figure.
 
Like, really, you didn’t just they did it with that and nothing else…. really?

@trashboat  
Now to be fair when dubbing BW the Japanese also took some “liberties” with how the western characters were portrayed.

@trashboat
 
On the other hand, they also removed the “racist Mexican stereotypes” aspects of the Jointrons…
 
On the OTHER other hand, some of the art is… yeesh. Especially Silverbolt.
 
Yeah, that was back during IDW’s “Who gives a crap?” days.

@OptimusPrimevil  
That’s the bad end to “Magical Mystery Cure”.

The Beast Wars Sourcebook ALSO got a lot of things wrong about the regular Beast Wars characters…
 
They also “canonized” (for lack of a better term) the McDonalds Happy Meal “Transmetal” versions of Dinobot, Blackarachnia, and Scorponok, as well as the Transmetal version of Terrorsaur. For the latter two, it said that their Transmetallization saved them from the lava, which was a potential plan in the show if they decided to bring them back, but they didn’t make it out until the Beast Wars were over, so they were stuck on prehistoric Earth. For the former two, it said they were “alternate” potential bodies for Dinobot II & Blackarachnia’s upgrade.

@Jarkes  
Also BB is gold for no good reason.

@Jarkes  
Well Uprising also “canonized” Happy Meal Scorponok.
 

Speaking of what they did with the Japanese Beast Wars stuff.  
Who do you think broke the fourth wall the most in the dub?(Or is the a count?)

@Darth Prime
 
As well as Transmetal Terrorsaur apparently…
 
…Uprising is a recent thing, right?
 
…Also, is that Packrat?

To be fair to the JP Beast Wars dubs, the characters were altered for comedic effect, and it (usually) wasn’t as absurd as BW Sourcebook.

@Jarkes  
New guy called Lab Rat but Packrat does play a part in the story.
 
BW: Uprising started back in 2014.  
PDFs of the stories can be found here at the bottom starting with “Broken Windshields”.

does the various characters spawned from overbite count as sharkticons?

I’ve heard that the voting for the next prime has started. Anybody know where it is?