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JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

njb902 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Bowspearer, would it ease your mind a bit if I told you Strika was retconned into the G1 cartoon series via the Wings Universe by FunPub? If you can locate a pink hunky fembot in the Season 3 Five Faces of Darkness series, that's Strika. The screenshot should be in the first few pages of the thread.

If all you want is Machine Wars redone and nothing else added, that would make for a boring set, wouldn't you think? 8 molds, 4 repaints from those molds?

Hunky fembot?

Oh I knew what bot you were pointing out. It was more me trying to wrap my mind around your description.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

njb902 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Bowspearer, would it ease your mind a bit if I told you Strika was retconned into the G1 cartoon series via the Wings Universe by FunPub? If you can locate a pink hunky fembot in the Season 3 Five Faces of Darkness series, that's Strika. The screenshot should be in the first few pages of the thread.

If all you want is Machine Wars redone and nothing else added, that would make for a boring set, wouldn't you think? 8 molds, 4 repaints from those molds?

Hunky fembot?

Oh I knew what bot you were pointing out. It was more me trying to wrap my mind around your description.

Vehicle mode image is now up

And I called her being an Autobot! I so called it!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Vehicle mode image is now up

And I called her being an Autobot! I so called it!

I'm a little confused as to why she's an Autobot... So I guess Strika was a Maximal before her reformation into a Vehicon in Beast Machines, and that's what has influenced the move here?

Mindmaster wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Vehicle mode image is now up

And I called her being an Autobot! I so called it!

I'm a little confused as to why she's an Autobot... So I guess Strika was a Maximal before her reformation into a Vehicon in Beast Machines, and that's what has influenced the move here?

Even though she's a Vehicon General in Beast Machines, her original allegiance was never made clear. Her primary directive was "The Protection of Cybertron", so she'd default to whoever has the same goal, in this case Autobots. As Megatron was Cybertron in Beast Machines she defaulted to him.

As BM Thrust said to her, if you're loyal to everyone, you're loyal to nobody.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Vehicle mode image is now up

And I called her being an Autobot! I so called it!

I'm a little confused as to why she's an Autobot... So I guess Strika was a Maximal before her reformation into a Vehicon in Beast Machines, and that's what has influenced the move here?

Even though she's a Vehicon General in Beast Machines, her original allegiance was never made clear. Her primary directive was "The Protection of Cybertron", so she'd default to whoever has the same goal, in this case Autobots. As Megatron was Cybertron in Beast Machines she defaulted to him.

As BM Thrust said to her, if you're loyal to everyone, you're loyal to nobody.

Yup, pretty much.

The official BotCon 2013 website has shared the recently revealed convention exclusive Machine Wars Stika's tank mode. Additionally, this image confirms her as an Autobot. Check out the new image below.

It's nice that they're giving Strika a back story. But though she is technically good in G1, after Animated, I'm having a hard time seeing her as an Autobot.

Rather picture the bot mode in my mind.

ILL-Star wrote:It's nice that they're giving Strika a back story. But though she is technically good in G1, after Animated, I'm having a hard time seeing her as an Autobot.

We're talking G1, not Animated. Different universe completely. Ever watched Beast Machines? It's -that- Strika.

Jelze put it quite succinctly. "As BM Thrust said to her, if you're loyal to everyone, you're loyal to nobody." Strika and Obsidian dedicated their lives to protecting Cybertron, not to any one faction. They simply sided with whatever side had the best interests of the planet as a whole in mind. Obviously, that means Autobots/Maximals pre and post-Beast Machines, and Vehicons during BM.