The Energon Pub

Once again, IDW has updated their Art Du Jour! Section. They updated the section with a new colored page drawn especially for the Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook #1. Here is what IDW has to say about the image:

"Simon Furman (Transformers: Beast Wars: The Gathering) and Ben Yee (consultant on the Beast Wars TV series) team up to present an all-encompassing, unifying resource book highlighting the characters, worlds and technology from all generations and incarnations of BEAST WARS. From AIR HAMMER to WOLFANG and beyond, and featuring all-new art from a host of the greatest TRANSFORMERS artists like Don Figueroa, Nick Roche, Rob Ruffolo, and many more, this is the series everyone's been clamoring for! This special series will be comprised of three 48-page, ad-free editions."

Now head over to IDW's Art Du Jour! Section to check it out now.

Apache!

The pages still look a bit bland, but I guess that lets you focus on the figures and bio and all that Jazz!

I am so looking forward to these books.

So, will Apache be appearing alongside B'Boom anywhere? Because that might prove a bit awkward, since they look exactly the same, color and all.

Sentinel Pax wrote:So, will Apache be appearing alongside B'Boom anywhere? Because that might prove a bit awkward, since they look exactly the same, color and all.

He will only be a few pages away, unless these books are not going to be done in Alphabetical order...

i_amtrunks wrote:

Sentinel Pax wrote:So, will Apache be appearing alongside B'Boom anywhere? Because that might prove a bit awkward, since they look exactly the same, color and all.

He will only be a few pages away, unless these books are not going to be done in Alphabetical order...

Well, I figured that, but I meant more along the lines of The Ascending. I mean, The Pack is/are going to show up, right? Either way, I love the design for B'Boom/Apache. One of my favorite toys as a kid.

Hurry up and publish these things already! I've been waiting my for Beast Wars profile books ever since those now-legendary Dreamwave MTMTE series came out!

Gimme gimme gimme!!!

There's never enough Beast Wars stuff...

Cyber-Kun wrote:There's never enough Beast Wars stuff...

right on

Skowl wrote:Hurry up and publish these things already!

OK, so I know now who to add to the "Fricassee" list if these things end up late again...

hmm interesting. i wonder if they'll go for the Apache name or the B'boom name for one character, or will they be different characters altogether?

the Apache name might be used since in interviews the writer & producers of the Ascending comic have expressed their decision to use the Japanese names for the Maximals in the new comic. hmm...

They seems to have both B'Boom and Apache as different characters, despite them being identical toys. I like it.

I will buy these, and then they can publish MTMTE books for Energon, G2, Rid, and Cybertron. I'd buy them all.

Scaleface wrote:They seems to have both B'Boom and Apache as different characters, despite them being identical toys. I like it.

I don't.

Well like it or not, they are two separate characters. I personally was hoping for maybe a bit more artistic license to differentiate the two characters, but unlike G1 toys, which were basic enough looking to get an extra character or two out of the same mold, Beast Wars figures were detailed enough to make it a bit harder They got a couple of good ones out there, but without a color change it is a bit tougher to accept.

But still, two different characters so hopefully we'll see how they're handled. It doesn't really bother me.

Maybe the protoform-formatting computer only has a limited number ideas, and after a while it starts to repeat itself.

Scaleface wrote:I will buy these, and then they can publish MTMTE books for Energon, G2, Rid, and Cybertron. I'd buy them all.

Ditto, these books are a real treat for the fandom

Darth Bombshell wrote:

Scaleface wrote:They seems to have both B'Boom and Apache as different characters, despite them being identical toys. I like it.

I don't.

i don't think there's anything wrong with this with good writing skills this shouldn't be a problem. they'll probably kill one off anyway

It would have been nice if they added his third form.

Also I like that they used "Apache" instead of "B-Boom" I always hated that name.

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Not that it matters but I figure share, in my collective, this figure is Primal's older brother who helped train the Maximal's who became Lio, Big, and Beast Convoy

Galmorzu wrote:Well like it or not, they are two separate characters. I personally was hoping for maybe a bit more artistic license to differentiate the two characters, but unlike G1 toys, which were basic enough looking to get an extra character or two out of the same mold, Beast Wars figures were detailed enough to make it a bit harder They got a couple of good ones out there, but without a color change it is a bit tougher to accept.

But still, two different characters so hopefully we'll see how they're handled. It doesn't really bother me.

See Hasbro, this is what when happens when repaints and generic rip offs, because your to lazy to do even that much, bite you on the ass!

Liege Evilmus wrote:

Galmorzu wrote:Well like it or not, they are two separate characters. I personally was hoping for maybe a bit more artistic license to differentiate the two characters, but unlike G1 toys, which were basic enough looking to get an extra character or two out of the same mold, Beast Wars figures were detailed enough to make it a bit harder They got a couple of good ones out there, but without a color change it is a bit tougher to accept.

But still, two different characters so hopefully we'll see how they're handled. It doesn't really bother me.

See Hasbro, this is what when happens when repaints and generic rip offs, because your to lazy to do even that much, bite you on the ass!

I think it's more that Hasbro and Takara depicted them as different characters, so when IDW made up bios, they made one for each.

Scaleface wrote:I think it's more that Hasbro and Takara depicted them as different characters, so when IDW made up bios, they made one for each.

It's still a fancy way of saying we're going to be wasting pages.

Darth Bombshell wrote:

Scaleface wrote:I think it's more that Hasbro and Takara depicted them as different characters, so when IDW made up bios, they made one for each.

It's still a fancy way of saying we're going to be wasting pages.

Two separate characters deserve two separate pages.

Unless Apache and BBoom have pretty much the same personalities, then it's a waste.

i_amtrunks wrote:Two separate characters deserve two separate pages.

Except they're not. They may be seperate from a certain point of view, but they're also the same character from a different one.

Darth Bombshell wrote:

i_amtrunks wrote:Two separate characters deserve two separate pages.

Except they're not. They may be seperate from a certain point of view, but they're also the same character from a different one.

That confused me for a minute!

Im hoping that the Japanese versions of characters will focus on what they were like in the Japanese series, and let the American versions of the characters stay true to the tech-specs/bio's.

Not try to play them off as the same character in different universe's or something.

i_amtrunks wrote:Not try to play them off as the same character in different universe's or something.

But that's exactly what they are...at least from the perspective of real life. In the fictional sense, sure, you can make up any cockamaime reason to imply that they're different people, but when you get right down to it, the Maximal cast of Beast Wars II, more or less, were straight repaints/redecos/refactionated versions of the majority of 1996 toys that weren't in the show.

There must have been a reason why Takara wanted it that way, and Simon and Ben must have seen the logical problem that would arise when they decided to make "The Gathering" about the non show characters when they decided to do the profile books and add the BW II/Neo characters.