by Sabrblade » Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:39 am
- Motto: "Can't do a job halfway. What's worth doing is worth doing well, I say."
- Weapon: Saber Blade
To give an idea of a remake/reboot, here's my pitch.
Picture if you will, an idea for a new take on Beast Wars that keeps the core concept of the original show intact but done a bit differently.
From a future Cybertron, a small band of Predacon criminals (led by a wannabe crime boss calling himself "Megatron") have escape the planet aboard a stolen ship. Out in space, the recently-appointed sergeant Optimus Primal of the Maximal Command Security Force is on a nearby moon or planetoid training a few cadets new to the force. Their training exercises are interrupted when a call from Maximal Command orders their vessel, the Axalon, to pursue the escaped Predacon convicts, as Primal's ship is the closest vessel to intercept the Preds.
Sergeant Primal and his cadets take off in pursuit and manage to catch up to the Predacon ship. But a brief skirmish in space creates a transwarp accident that sends the two ships back in time to crash-land on an organic planet that would later on be revealed to be Earth, and where they all scan beast modes based on the planet's various animals, insects, and dinosaur remains.
But this time, while they initially find no humans in the area, over time they gradually do discover traces of a remote civilization. Dirt roads cut through forests, stone bridges built across rivers and lakes, a village of homes made of wood and stone, and even a great castle with a drawbridge and moat overlooking a small kingdom. It is not prehistoric Earth, but medieval Earth, in the age of knights and kingdoms across Europe.
But one question still remains: If this small human kingdom exists, what happened to the humans who built it and lived there? That would remain a mystery, which probably wouldn't be solved until the end of the first season. Were the humans to return by the second season, that would allow us to see how the Maximals would interact with humans, since unlike Autobots they are not giant robots, and humans of the Middle Ages would react much differently from modern-day humans to the existence of extraterrestrials who could change into Earth animals/insects/dinosaurs/etc. (especially to those with dinosaur beast modes).
Also, the Autobot/Decepticon legacy has no significant role in this story, so no appearances of Starscream's ghost, the Ark and its stasis-locked occupants, the Nemesis, etc. Just the Maximals and Predacons and whatever else they come across in this medieval time period. Though, being a BW-original concept, a new version of the Vok could appear and play a role, possibly being the answer to the humans' mysterious absence in the first season.
While Primal and Megatron would still be the leaders, the remaining casts of Maximals and Predacons would be a bit different. For instance, since I don't think any new take on Dinobot could ever live up to the original, I'd leave him out of this and instead do something new by having Wolfang be the Predacon-turned-Maximal of this story, since his mold ended up having both Maximal and Predacon toys.
Plus, while this next decision may seem a bit audicious, there wouldn't be any Transmetals. Or at least, not in the way that they were done before. Instead, by the time of the humans' return to the story and the Maximals finding allies in them (which would actually be a rather long process due to deceptions and machinations caused by Megatron that would prevent any immediate human/Maximal alliances), the two species would work together new suits of armor that the Maximals could wear in their beast modes to essentially make them all knights, and said armor would be specifically designed to pay homage to the Transmetals of the original series (e.g. - Optimus's armor would have a shiny blue helmet and chestplate, and two maces attached to his back).
In a further Transmetal homage, Megatron would have a new design in this series that would be a cross between his pre-Transmetal and Transmetal designs. Picture his Transmetal robot mode, but in the color scheme of his pre-Transmetal form. His fake T-Rex head torso is also replaced by his pre-transmetal torso. Though, his does not have his VTOL fans since his beast mode is just his normal pre-Transmetal purple T-Rex form. And while he would have two normal arms and hands in this design, the T-Rex head of his beast mode could be pulled out from where it is stored on his back to he held in his right hand as a laser gun that wraps around his wrist to hide his hand inside it, along with his tail still being held in his left hand as a shield/lance/whatever-kind-of-weapon.
But while I'd be getting rid of Transmetals as body upgrades, I would still keep Megatron's dragon form upgrade but only as an end-of-series final form upgrade that would be the main instrument of his endgame, rather than how the original series had him get that form and then decide to use something completely unrelated to it (the Nemesis) as his final instrument of destruction. In this version, the dragon form itself would be that instrument, in his bid to become the most powerful Predacon in existence, in an unholy ascension.
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Sabrblade on Thu Feb 02, 2023 4:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.
"When there's gold feathers, punch behind you!!"Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Ok so you're trying to be clever, and just being pedantic.__scaled_800.jpg)
