Can I get some Beast Wars love ?
>>5562503
Fuck off, furfag!
Yiff in hell!
>>5562509
Normally id agreee, but beast wars is based as fuck. Whats your favorite figure, OP?
>>5562517
Based Silverbolt
>>5562527
Mines waspinator, but not based on the quality of the figure, but because i like the character.
>>5562517
It's all about Cheetor. That giant cat was cool as fuck.
>>5562517
Anything from the Fuzor line, i fucking loved those. They were sick as fuck.
As a kid i had all of them except one that i think was a monkey and something else.
What would you say are the major centerpieces for collectors of Beast Wars?
Ravage is a nice piece but I'd love an Antagony.
>>5562517
better believe that it's Sky Shadow
The bastard offspring of Scyther and a xenomorph
>>5562653
definitely Deep Charge
>>5562660
Fuck, i didnt know that magnificantly awsome bastard exsisted. Im gonna have to get him now.
Got a nice little display of my Beast wars stuff. Finally have room for all of them. Have a photo
>>5562660
>>5562759
Man, he was my favorite too. first exposure to real posable ankle joints on a toy,which bugged me out. I love his giant claw and hidden hand gimmick.
I remember trying to write a letter to Kenner asking them to make a dragon Transformer back when BW first started. I even drew a suggestion of a design for how it'd work and everything (just a basic flip changer). When this guy came out years later I thought they answered my letter. I found my letter years later; my parents never mailed it out because it was just childish scribblings instead of actual writing with a drawn on stamp.
Razorclaw forever
>>5562653
You really can't go wrong with the Ultras. Optimus, Megatron, The combiners, Rampage Deptch Charge, Tiger Hawk, and TM2 Megatron.
The original Optimus Primal is still my favorite way the design has ever looked. Stark black and white with one of the best looking headsculpts. Thew mentioned that awesome headsculpt in his review, it really does look great.
>>5562877
I also love the original Primal look. The transformation is so simple but effective. That black/red/white colorscheme, those shoulder pauldrons, multiple gimmicks... It's just a great toy.
Really hyped for the Masterpiece too.
I remember being super hyped for Beast Wars II and Neo when they first got shown. Bazooka is till one of my favorite Beastformers.
>>5563198
Beast Wars II holds a special place in my heart for being such a mysterious and unattainable toyline.
I still remember going to my friends place and booting up dial-up internet for the first time. We were big Beast Wars fans and ran across some pre-Space Jam website. The website was showing off brand new reveals from BW II, a gray prototype of Galvatron and a fully painted Lio Convoy. My boner could not be contained and those two figures dug right into my genetic code.
Pic not mine but I wish it was.
I used to have the Manta Ray guy when I was a kid. Fucking awesome figure.
>>5563937
His name is Depthcharge
Only one I had as a kid. Never watched the show but I loved this fucker.
>>5562833
>hidden hand gimmick
THERE WAS A HAND UNDER THE LIZARD HEAD?
One day I will stop being lazy and buy this unholy abomination and be glorified with his tongue sticking action and lovecraftian alt mode
>>5562503
Naw, beast wars was wack as hell.
>>5564594
For me, the best thing about Beast Wars toys is that I am constantly seeing and hearing about ones that I had no idea ever existed.
Like holy fuck anon, thank you for making me aware that this giraffe existed. That's amazing.
Gatortron is absolutely based.
>>5562676
*Depthcharge.
Loved this guy, in my story he traveled back in time to before transmetals, like trunks and cut shit in half like a bad ass.
>>5566963
Why do you think that anon?
today is my birthday, and this is my birthday haul
>>5562503
I'll never love beast wars for its "robots in fur coats" style, but I still love some TF's with animal altmodes
Battle Ravage
Animated Waspinator
Cruellock
Ripclaw
DOTM Hatchet
DOTM Laserbeak
>>5563422
I know that feeling. One of the first things I used the internet for was looking up new Beast Wars toys. I remember seeing Lio Convoy and Galvatron for the first time and being amazed that Japan got such cool toys that I would never have.
Well then one day my family was in an Asian mall, and I found a store that had Japanese Beast Wars toys. I bought Galvatron, taking my first step down the slippery slope of buying Japanese toys. Here he is, more than 15 years later, my very first import.
>>5563952
>Grew up extremely poor until I was about 9
>As a kid, was turbo into TFs as the most affordable toys I could get were g1 toys at flea markets
>Beast Wars comes on when I'm in kindergarten and I lose my shit
>Dad can't afford to get me anything after the first Megs/Optimistic set
>Love the Predacons dearly but could never have
>Big buddy program happens at school
>Basically grade 7 kids being assigned to kindergartners to hang out with them
>Got two kickass motherfuckers, taught me wrestling moves at school
>They got to know me as well as a 12 year old can know a 5 year old
>Birthday rolls around and !y parents could only afford 12$ arcade trip and a cake
>Come into school the next day
>The bastards bought me Terrorsaur
>Actual tears of joy and daytime TV hugs all around
>Still have him to this day
>>5567868
i hope you're still friends with those fuckers
>>5563947
he might have meant the one from the McDonald's Happy Meals, that one is a different character entirely
also I think one of my favorite things about Beast Wars is that thanks to the show, most of the toys are technically in scale with G.I. Joe and other 1:18 scale lines(or at least generally close enough in the case of some of the largest figures)
Really love the Transmetal line. All of those first wave figures were great, pity about Megs GPS though.
>>5568041
Agreed. Transmetals were pretty based. I owned almost all of these guys at one point except for Primal.
I prefer mechanical beastformers.
This is my pirate crew.
>>5568210
>Thundertron
it makes me legitimately angry that this was never redecoed into Alpha Trion
>>5568210
You can tell that they are pirates because they are each missing a proper limb, arrrrr
>>5567867
Dude I used to have one of those. Was kinda wondering how much they are worth now?
>>5568424
I've never even thought about selling mine, so I have no idea. Probably more than what I paid for him back in the early 2000s though, even with the dealer markup.
>>5568217
It was, Botcon 2014 right?
>>5568210
>Thundertron tries to look tough and menacing carrying his sword in his mouth
>Snarl and Sky-byte are too occupied looking at spots on the wood
>>5567090
Truth.
>>5562503
Can't wait for the MP.
>>5562676
The Universe Repaint is fantastic.
>>5563422
I remember reading BWTFs corocoro scan information about BWII. I actually ended up with a Flash Convoy last year.
I don't collect Transformers very much anymore but I ended up buying Legends Blackarachnia out of nostalgia. She's pretty great. I wish I didn't skip Rhinox and Rattrap.
>>5574209
>BM BA's thighs
>>5574209
Takara's going to be rereleasing Rattrap, Rhinox, and Waspinator in more show accurate colors later this year.
>>5562778
First time here. Why does this image give me dopamine?
>>5574209
are the legends blackarachnia's still around? where should i keep an eye out for them?
i nabbed rhinox at a k mart that was closing in my area on a whim and loved it!
>>5562893
Yeah, I even like the grated looking chest on the original compared to the animation model and the later remolds.
It seems every time Beast Wars is bought up you always have a few people disparaging them as "robots in fur coats" Which is a little silly when that's only like half the line. Anyway, I actually prefer the real animal look; just because the "in disguise" aspect when it comes to transformers. Robot beasts are cool, but I think they stand on their own, like Zoids. Where as with realistic beast modes, I think its cool to see how they manage to pull off a transformation.
Its too bad that we got very few realistic animals besides Neo after '97, because they got a lot better at sculpting beasts. The Neo Dinosaurs are fantastic looking. The Transmetal 2's vary but stuff like Jawbreaker and Prowl are really dynamic looking and more naturally sculpted than similar, earlier beast modes. Even the terrible animorphs line had some fantastic beast modes occasionally; would've been great if some got remolds as robots.
>>5577616
>Jawbreaker and Prowl
Those were some of my favourite Transmetal 2 toys as a kid.
The hunt for the Universe repaint of this mold has been driving me crazy. It seems like every old Transformer I grew up with is insanely overpriced on eBay.
>>5577616
>Even the terrible animorphs line had some fantastic beast modes occasionally; would've been great if some got remolds as robots.
This actually happened. The Beast Wars Mutant subline were intended as Animorph toys. They were supposed to have little pop up heads and a few biologic parts, but they got changed to mechanical robot parts. They don't have real robot modes though, just two beast modes. Which was actually pretty amazing especially for the time. They came out as late as Transmetal 2 days if I recall correct.
I wish these were easier to find, I can't find them on eBay for a good price either. I tried TFW2005 but bumping an old ass forum post for days is not fun. And I think the Bat Alligator has gold plastic syndrome.
>>5577763
Check out the antennas on the Raptor/Wolverine. It was totally intended to be one of the aliens from Animorphs.
>>5577763
>>5577764
That slipped my mind; I actually remember really liking the wolverine/raptor(the only one i could find) because of the raptor mode. It even had digitigrade legs.I remember thinking how cool it'd be if we got a Dinobot toy with a beast mode that good. The Universe one came close, but fell short due to many things besides ditching animation accuracy in robot mode. The stupid alternating normal hand/beast foot hand on his chest among the worst. should've just cave him fake claw hands that folded away instead of the two hand option. Giving Dinobot normal hands is as weird as giving Soundwave eyes and a mouth.
Hopefully takara gives us an MP dinobot if Primal does well.
>>5576405
Legends Blackarachnia are still existent on eBay.
I got the Legends Windblade, and regret nothing, if I had the money, I'd buy all the Legends fembots this very moment.
>>5577780
I wish I bought shittons of htem back in the day so I could do a Scorponok, Dinobot, and Alligator + Bat Primal repaint of the Mutants.
>>5577763
>And I think the Bat Alligator has gold plastic syndrome.
>buy BW Soundwave for $20 off of ebay
>seller had him pictured had in bat mode
>receive him in shitty gator mode
>I have a BW Grimlock so I figure as long as I go slow and don't hamhand Soundwave it'll all be fine
>try to open gator jaw before I permanently set him in bat mode
>CRACK, jaw is off a peg now
>try to push it back
>CRACK, it breaks on the other side
Just my fuck my shit up
>>5567868
Wow, that is a touching story.
I grew up really poor too. We were literally homeless 'camping' for half a year waiting for some low income housing.
I don't have a good memory, but for some reason I got that Terrorsaur when we went into town, was literally the only toy I had for those months.
I couldn't have asked for a better toy.
>>5577787
>Alligator + Bat
>creepy Megatron/Optimus combo al a Megatron/Ratchet in G1
I never realized that before. Missed opportunity.
>>5577805
The tragic thing about this figure is that they were going to release a recolour of him in Universe, but it got canceled along with a bunch of other random repaints. He probably wouldn't have had gold plastic syndrome if that was the case.
>>5578005
What's really bad is that only like 60% of Soundwave is fragile gold plastic. The rest is perfectly normal brown plastic.
>>5578016
>name is soundwave probably because it's just cheaper to reuse old trademarks
>has nothing to do with soundwave
>recolour gives him G1 soundwave colours
Unreleased toys make me so sad.
>>5574209
bigbadtoys has ratrap, but not rhinox. Im guessing tankor doesnt count? lol
>>5578020
>recolor would have been named "Leatherhide" despite looking more like G1 Soundwave than BW Soundwave did
Universe 1.0 was a strange line.
I remember going to a frat party. My friends and I are dancing. We hear the theme song from BEAST MACHINES. We all look at each other like, while not speaking a word "this is Beast Machines. No. Wait. This is definely Beast Machines." It was a magical moment
man i fucking love BW, are they expensive nowadays? i might try to get em all
>>5562517
>Normally id agree
With the retarded off-topic memer from 2008 4chan?
I'm excited for this figure.
>>5582311
You and me both, anon.
>>5582311
Megatron when
>>5567868
>>5563952
terrorsaur was is my first beast wars transformer, kept good care of him and COMPLETE. His damn head popped off twice in the school bus and was stressing like crazy until a good friend found his head rolling back 5 seats away from me on the floor. Thank goodness and he saw I was grateful and relieved.
Anyways, wasn't there supposed to be a re release of the terrorsaur but in blue??? I never saw it released....
>>5582556
You mean this? Apparently it was a Walmart exclusive in the US.
Anyone excited for the souveneir set reveals next week at Botcon? Sure it'll mostly be mushy Fun Pub heads on CW bodies but it'll be the most BW will get Statesisde.
I have the armadillo.
>>5582720
I didnt know it was exclusive, no wonder I never saw it.... And now its at ebay scalper prices... oh well
>>5582311
https://youtu.be/ZQzXdox9wbQ
>>5577763
The animorphs line was so terrible. I read those books and the toys had no business beign made, especially with how awful they ended up being. No one went from beast to beast except tobias anyway. Hasbro were retards to do animorphs, however the mutants were wickedly cool. My neighbor had some, I always wanted the polar bear/owl but never saw him in stores.
>>5562541
Cheetor?
No!!!
>>5574221
Cheetor, no!
>>5574193
Ew.
>>5585220
the 2 andalites and the big yellow monster were okay, but that was really it. They did not pull of convincing human modes AT ALL and they often partsformed worse than G1 just to attempt to have human hands.
>>5563422
Someone on /m/ just posted this if you want to watch the show. I've always wanted to see it and I had no idea anyone was subbing it.
http://karyuudofansubs.blogspot.ca/
couple more of mine
>>5585487
>Optimal Optimus
I forgot how horrifying that thing looks
TM Primal was so much better. Fucker had a hover-board ffs.
That's what happens when you try to improve on perfection.
>>5585521
I always thought the Transmetal mega was his least interesting body in BW actually. Even liked the bat body better. Optimal Optimus would've been drastically improved if he kept the Transmetal colors or the Season 1 colors, though. Replace the orange with either black or the maroon/brown of the Transmetal. really wish they made Black/white/red Primal's iconic colors like Purple is to Megatron.
>>5585521
Yea looked great until you transform him and his face has sharp teeth an nostrils. That what I want an optimus with brown pectoral muscles on his chest.
Transmetal Megatron was the best transmetal.
>>5564452
this post made me rofl
i love you anon
>>5585521
>balancing
What kind of wizardry is this?
>>5585572
That's practically all the transmetals though. They're meant to be bio-boosted robots, so they have beast mode elements in robot mode. Its more subtle with Megatron but most of the brown areas are meant to look more organic, including his helmet, and of course he has a partial T.Rex head growing out his chest.
>>5585803
Doesn't mean it looks good.
>>5585830
Personally I like it, but I like organic mecha Though yeah, Optimus Primal's organicness is probably the least appealing. The Predacons took the Transmetal look better overall, probably because they weren't mammalian and thus had to be more creative with blending the beast elements into a humanoid robot mode.
>>5562893
When I think of what the real life Buzz Lightyear was. i always think of Optimus Primal.
He had all the gimmicks you could have ever want implemented in really fun ways.
>>5585530
Why doesn't Botcon do something this cool? Or even Platinum? Instead of a G1-ish Air Attack Optimus Primal we could have gotten something like a Purple Transmetal 2 Megatron and a Black/white/red/blue Optimal Optimus.
>>5585955
>Botcon
>cool
>>5585803
> Its more subtle with Megatron
lol what. It's not subtle at all. That's the whole reason he has a dinosaur head on chest. His arms and thighs and even head are also dinosaur skin.
I really love the Transmetal 1 guys though. I think they're probably my favourite aesthetic out of all of Beast Wars.
>>5585961
Oops forgot picture.
>>5578232
Phat Planet?
>>5568041
i had primal. that hoverboard was dope.
>>5585803
>and of course he has a partial T.Rex head growing out his chest.
It's the Predacon symbol, not a t-rex head.
>>5585963
>tfw mine is in several pieces
>tfw the Takara one is hard as fuck to acquire
That's okay, not like he was my favorite anyway.
Magmatron>Megatron>Galvatron
>>5586962
>It's the Predacon symbol, not a t-rex head.
>No stinger
>No antenna
>Has SCALES
It's obviously a stylized T-Rex head.
>>5586989
I actually saw a takara Metals Megatron for just 5000 yen on Mandarake a few weeks ago.
Meanwhile I paid $110 for mine of ebay..
