AllNewSuperRobot wrote:This has got me thinking about the likelyhood of MP Tri-Predacus and Magnaboss though. They did exist in the Japanese Beast Wars cartoon, after all and I do think they won't release an entire Masterpiece Beast Wars line exclusively based on the Mainframe series. The Second & Neo series will see some representation. Even if it is just Leo Convoy and Galvatron or Big Convoy & Magmatron.
Not likely. Beast Wars Season 1 is the only Beast series that did well over in Japan. Second and Neo were just filler series to buy time for Seasons 2 and 3 to get finished (and when Metals got released, it tanked in Japan), so there's really not much love for any of the characters of those series outside of Lio Convoy. Notice how he's the only one who keeps getting different-mold new toy releases from Takara (RobotMasters, Prime, Legend Commander Collection, Legends) while no one else from either Second or Neo does.
Granted, Longrack did get homaged in a Cybertron toy, but that seemed to be a weird one-off and otherwise didn't play any notable role in the Japanese-made cartoon.
And, the little Big Fight figure that came with Legends Blitzwing did turn out to be a new Big Convoy toy, but which otherwise bore zero resemblance to the guy and was only made the case by Blitzwing's pack-in manga, so it wasn't even a conscience decision by TakaraTomy but instead by Sakamoto just making a loose connection with the toy's mammoth mode.