TK415 wrote:First off let me say that I am not offended, and would like to answer this question. And please don’t take any offense from my post.
TK415 wrote:Many people never knew the old fiction, forgot it, or don’t know the new fiction, or can’t keep track of the different fictions. Also, the Transformers franchise reimagines things all of the time and could use Megatron even if it would be contradictory to a certain fiction.
In all of the Club's fiction that ties in or connects to Beast Wars (aside from its reboot continuity Beast Wars: Uprising), the Club is faithful and/or non-contradictory towards the Beast Wars story as it was portrayed in its cartoon proper. To reimagine the Council in any light contrary to how it was portrayed in said cartoon would go against the Club's M.O. of doing Beast Wars stuff.
While I did mention Uprising as the exception to this, I really can't see the Club doing a new version of the Council that no one cares about instead of the preexisting version that people saw and knew of. Those guys have been mysterious for all this time and if this appears to be their chance to finally be further explored and fleshed out, it'd more likely be done in a manner that adheres to the cartoon's depiction of them.
TK415 wrote:From what I remember, I thought the Tri-Predacus council said something along the lines as Megatron is too rogue, is going to mess everything up, and needs to be dealt with. That sounds like that at one time they were allies or at least on the same side. They were all Predacons, right? Sure there can be differing views within the same faction, but they are still in the same faction, thus Megatron could be a figure for Botcon (this is a perspective from one who doesn’t read the Botcon fiction).
Megatron's official backstory (which contains an inherent link to Club-produced fiction) has him as a lowlife crook who hit it big in the Golden Disk theft after double-crossing his boss and mentor Cryotek, making off with the disk while Cryotek took the fall for the heist.
Megatron's small time position and more risky agenda clashes with both the more esteemed governmental position and the more secretive long-term planning agenda of the Council. For Megatron to have once been a member, it just doesn't add up with the kind of character Megatron was and is.
Now, let's suppose that Megatron really was once a member of the Council. Given the kind of character that we know him to be, it just really doesn't seem believable that he'd have either given up or been removed from his seat of power. He's too crafty and charismatic to be bested by the other three who preferred more diplomatic and slow-paced planning. If anything, Megatron would be the kind of bot who'd secretly have the
other three taken out of the picture, rather than the opposite, just as he'd done to Cryotek. It'd be no time at all before Megatron would be the sole power in the Predacon government, and with as silver a tongue as he has, he'd easily have every Pred working under him eating out of the palm of his hand.
Though, while it's true that in the Beast Era cartoons Megatron had some of his underlings try to go against him, but each case could be overturned with Megatron in governmental charge of all Predacons. Tarantulas was loyal to the Council more than to Megatron, but in this case with Megatron being the Council, he'd be the one Tarantulas would be loyal to. Terrorsaur was a typical Starscream type who wanted to lead Megatron's small team on Earth, but he never seemed so ambitious as to want to take over a political office. Tankor-Rhinox also wanted to dethrone Megatron, but with Megatron in politics, it isn't likely that events would have played out the same way as those that led to Rhinox getting turned into Tankor. And Cryotek, being a small time crime boss far below any political authority, wouldn't have Megatron as his apprentice, and so wouldn't have Megatron as a flunky for him to want to betray.
In short, the situation would likely be completely different from how it was in the cartoon if Megatron had been a Councilor instead of a criminal thug. So different that it does not seem like the kind of story that would be told in this forthcoming set.
TK415 wrote:Where did you learn that his name was Ram horn? I’m not doubting you, I just want to know what I am missing, and where I can find that kind of information.
All three of the Tripredacus Council generals were given toys back in the day, in which they were named Ram Horn, Sea Clamp, and Cicadacon. Of course, since the toys were made first, the toys weren't advertised as being anything more than a Predacon combiner team, as this was the time before the toys began to mesh with the cartoon's storyline.
When the season 2 finale of the cartoon came along, the cartoon took three members of the Tripredacus team and reimagined them as the Predacon governmental body called the Tripredacus Council. Though their individual names were not given in the episode itself, they were included in the episode's script, which identified which was which of the three. The script was posted on Ben Yee's website BWTF.com back in the day, and fans who saw it and read were able to deduce who was Ram Horn, who was Sea Clamp, and who was Cicadacon.
Currently, the three are easily identifiable on their respective TFWiki pages.
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JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:By the by, they said the combiner would have 5 new head molds... except for a total retool we'd need 6: 5 for the individual members, plus 1 for the Combined Mode. Expect to see one redeco, guys.
No problem. If they go with Onyx as the fifth member, they can redeco CW Firefly since Firefly's head is a close enough match for Onyx's, allowing the other four and the combiner to all have new heads.
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