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Just posting my old ones and making new ones. Any requests?

Trying to remake the tech specs to be as show accurate as possible. Seeing as the toys and she show of Beast Machines were as far apart as can be in Transformers, I wanted to make something a little more like the show.

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To do: Strika, Obsidian, Diagnostic Drone, Botanica, Noble.

I dont know anything about Beast Machines nearly, but are Optimus Primal that fast? I have noticed he got some jet-boosters?

GrimlockPlox wrote:I dont know anything about Beast Machines nearly, but are Optimus Primal that fast? I have noticed he got some jet-boosters?

Yeah, as far as I remember from the show, he should probably be more of a 6 in speed. I don't recall him having jets in Beast Machines, though that was a very long time ago...

Megatron as well, at least in insane head/cloak format. His speed should maybe be 0, though I think he could control some aspects of Cybertron, if memory serves.

Back in the Beast Wars they kept upping the number for Optimus Primal. Started at all 10s and went UP to 10+. When they did Beast Machines they couldn't lower it much could they? I was thinking of lowering it to more sane numbers, like they used in the Beast Wars 10th Anniversary numbers.

Hasbro has some insane idea that the leader should be near perfect in all areas. Like the in the US army the strongest, fastest, best shot, would be a 5 star General?

Yeah, I see what you are saying, and I would blame poo poo heads at Hasbro too.

The 5 star general might just have been one of the fastest or most skillful earlier in his career, but it is his intelligence (and hopefully courage) that gets him to that 5 star general. If you want a show accurate, vs Hasbro corporate accurate, I would think it might be appropriate to change some of those numbers to reflect that realism. But, thats just my opinion.

For example, I might have Primal's numbers as follows:

Strength 10 (As a gorilla, I have no problem with his strength being superior)
Intelligence 10 (Definitely the max here)
Speed 6 (He's a gorilla. Faster than some trees, but slower than some cheetahs. Especially slower than say, Jetstorm or Thrust [poor Thrust, reduced to a motorcycle. Cool looking motorcycle, but he should be flying ])
Endurance 9 [Maybe less than max as he's a leader now and shouldn't be engaging in a lot of hand to hand combat. Still, I can see him pumping some dumbells from time to time. Like Tankor...)
Rank 10 (Yeah, this one's obvious.)
Courage 10 (Maxed here. It takes a tremendous amount of courage to order your soldiers to walk into possible [and sometimes certain] death.)
Firepower 8 (Again, strong, but as a general, he shouldn't be engaging in combat a lot. In reality [heh, Beast Machine reality anyway] if your general is engaging in combat, you must be up that proverbial creek without that proverbial paddle. Still, for the sake of the show, he did have to engage in combat. Was he the most powerful? I thought I remembered Tankor having a bit more power. Eight seems a nice compromise, IMO)
Skill 9 (I bet Primal practices on Cheetor. I don't know why I hate Cheetor so much. He just bugs the heck out of me.)

Of course, Primal might argue some of those numbers like Deon Sanders claiming he should have a speed rating of 100 in Madden...

Nice looking techs! Now if only that huge disappointment that was Rattrap had a toy to match his sweet show look...

In Beast Machines, Optimus had jets in his back like in the first season of Beast Wars so he was really fast, not Cheetor fast but still pretty damn fast.
When plugged in to his control harness, Megatron had near complete (although not direct) control of all auotmated systems on Cybertron (including the jet, tank and cycle drones originally) so technically Meagtron had 10+ for strength, speed, endurance, firepower, and rank. Of course this would drop courage to 1 because he hid behind the tech and didn't even reveal he was in control until the third episode.