Galactic Prime wrote:I still think that vote was rigged, no way there's that many Optimus Primal fans
It's hard to get actual numbers on Beast Wars fans because I think many of them 'assimilated' into the larger fandom. As in they
started with Beast Wars and have fond nostalgia for it but they're not exactly the same kind of diehard purist loyalist that 'true fan Geewunners' are. Odds are you'll never see a Beast Wars fan who is JUST a fan of that ONE SHOW and nothing else.
Although honestly, with Hasbro pandering so much to Generation 1 and giving a few cookies to the non G1-toylines (and, really, mostly during anniversaries of Beast Wars and Thrilling 30 for Armada Starscream with the oddball Titans Return Tidal Wave in a boxset) I seriously thought Ultra Magnus would win.
Heck, I'm a Beast Wars fan and I wouldn't have minded Thunderwing or Star Saber winning, even if I voted for Primal obviously. Damn, I even casted in that vote thinking there was no way he would win because of how much the fanbase remain G1-centric and because newer generations who got in during Unicron Trilogy, Bayformers or Aligned would find that poorly-aged CGI show some sort of weirdass 'thing' that kinda happened and died off.