Skritz wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:This. So much this. Good post Skritz, you said it better than I could ever have
Thank you. I wish I was this eloquent IRL!
By the way, even as a diehard Beast Wars fan I don't think I'd ever want a Beast Wars line that is just rehash and updates. Especially not for a BW-inspired line, since the original line had some crazy shakeup ever year with Transmetal, Fuzor and Transmetal 2. All with distinct esthetic. While I understand you'd obviously need a Beast Wars line to have Beast Wars characters to me it would be a waste of time, money and plastic to just redo everything 1:1. For the main cast? Oh sure, I could see that happening and in fact Generations already did it for Rhinox, Rattrap, Waspinator and Optimal Optimus.
However for a new Beast Wars line I'd welcome either completely new design or radical redesign of G1 characters with beast modes, be they completely organic beast modes or something like Transmetals, the latter of which would fit very well with the existing animal and monster-bots of the current Generations line. I'm not against figures of pre-existing characters with a new spin, especially not if its a good figure. That said, there are so many cool animals in real life that a hypothetical new Beast Wars line could sell itself purely on the crazy experimentation Hasbro could do (Crab Ironhide, anyone?) with about a quarter of the line being show characters. There is endless variety in animals and Hasbro's engineering has gone a very, very long way to make this possible and great-looking. An example of that would be TR Mindwipe.
So no, I don't think a 'New Beast Wars' line need to completely rehash the old toyline simply because there is a whole trilogy worth of unique and amazing designs they could do, double so if they bring in crazier and weirder ideas like Fuzor (who have endless potential) or maybe even Beast triple-changers.
Right now, IMO, the only Beast Wars guy who badly need an update is Megatron, especially his Dragon form since we got Optimal Optimus. Hell, that's another idea: organic mythical animals as a subline! Griffin transformers. Chimera transformers! Hydras and cerberus. Seriously, there is a ton of potential for a BW line without needing to redo the actual toyline.
The idea of a beast triple changer just reminded me of the Mutant faction where they were beasts with no robot mode and two beast modes And you're on fire with the good points tonight/day/pick your timezone