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Black Hat wrote:How about a Top 5 mythical beast Transformers list? I'd say it would make sense to limit the choices to TFs with alt modes based on actual mythical creatures rather than just any "original" fantastical monsters with no prior precedence- so Tigerhawk and the Fuzors, as cool as they are, wouldn't make the list due to being (AFAIK) purpose-made for Beast Wars.
I'd probably include (in no particular order):
>TM2 Megatron/Cryotek (dragon)
>Cybertron Scourge (dragon, possibly a hydra with his key gimmick)
>POTP Blot (troll)
>Battle Unicorn (unicorn, fairly obviously)
>RID Megatron (Take your pic but specifically I was thinking of his two-headed dragon mode).
Honourable mentions go to Heinrad (tanuki), RID Bruticus (Cerberus, granted he isn't exactly a good toy but a Cerberus is an interesting idea) and the unproduced Manticore TF that nearly got made for the BW Telemocha series.
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Here's an idea that's been jostling in my mind for a while: character traits.
To be exact, a Top 5 or Top 10 unique character traits. As in, the less characters that have a particular trait the higher it ranks. Like Blurr's speed in talking, Wreck-Gar's pop culture pastiches, Animated Lugnut's POKE, or Animated Blitzwing's 3 personalities would rank pretty high because they haven't been replicated (that much) by newer characters, just their newer versions.
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Top 10 must worthless alt-modes, seems a good concept to take stock of across the franchise. Be that the practicality of the "disguise" [looking at you, G1 Predacons AND Dinobots] to it's functionality amid its contemporaries IE Retrax in Beast Wars, Botanica in Beast Machines.
william-james88 wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Top 10 must worthless alt-modes, seems a good concept to take stock of across the franchise. Be that the practicality of the "disguise" [looking at you, G1 Predacons AND Dinobots] to it's functionality amid its contemporaries IE Retrax in Beast Wars, Botanica in Beast Machines.
The predacons were in disguise? I never saw it that way
ZeroWolf wrote:I'm with Will on this one, I think at a certain pont the disguises lost their marketing point, especially in the futuristic setting of the season 3 cartoon. I can think of only one instance in season 3 where disguises were important, and that's when they stole Trypticon transformation Cog. Wasn't Botanica given a similar reason for her alt mode? Being that it was what she scanned?
william-james88 wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Here's an idea that's been jostling in my mind for a while: character traits.
To be exact, a Top 5 or Top 10 unique character traits. As in, the less characters that have a particular trait the higher it ranks. Like Blurr's speed in talking, Wreck-Gar's pop culture pastiches, Animated Lugnut's POKE, or Animated Blitzwing's 3 personalities would rank pretty high because they haven't been replicated (that much) by newer characters, just their newer versions.
Would you like to write it?
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Congrats! You've lasted longer than Sunbow![]()
On that note, how about Top 10 original [non-G1] characters?
No Convoys, no Megatrons, no Prowls etc
A legitimate way of celebrating the 35th Anniversary of the Entire Series (and your own milestone too)
william-james88 wrote:So no Beast Wars Megatron?
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:william-james88 wrote:So no Beast Wars Megatron?
Sadly so. I think sometimes the fanbase needs reminding not every great Transformers character comes from the same pool of a dozen reused names/tropes.
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:That's the whole point of the list though. Showing that good characters exist, outside reused trademarks. As that is all these recycled G1 names are to HasTak: branding.
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I think end product name should be the mitigating factor, as some often have multiple names at the concept stage. A top 5, off the top of my head?
1. Tarantulas
2. Bulkhead
3. Rattrap
4. Tidal Wave
5. Waspinator
william-james88 wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I think end product name should be the mitigating factor, as some often have multiple names at the concept stage. A top 5, off the top of my head?
1. Tarantulas
2. Bulkhead
3. Rattrap
4. Tidal Wave
5. Waspinator
I thought of this a lot and if I were to write a list, I think it would come out like this:
Blackarachnia
Lockdown
Rung
Depthcharge
Rhinox
No order yet.
william-james88 wrote:As for my other list of name reuses, I think it would go like this:
Beast Wars Rampage
Animated Prowl
MTMTE Ultra Magnus
Beast Wars Megatron
Prime Dreadwing
Honourable Mention: Beast Wars Dinobot
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