The Energon Pub

Mon May 16, 2011 10:57 am

Can you name all of the Transformers who have both beast and vehicle modes all in one? Remember, this doesn't have to be Beast Wars. It can be from any Transformers universe.

Mon May 16, 2011 3:13 pm

G1: Apeface and Snapdragon; Quickswitch; Sixshot; Sky Lynx; Trypticon and Scorponok (if you count their battle stations as vehicles)

Beast Wars: Transmetals; Optimal Optimus; TM2 Megatron (if you want to count his roller skates as a vehicle mode)

Beast Wars II Maximals have attack modes that are somewhat like stationary attack vehicles.

RiD Megatron

These are the ones that I know of.

Mon May 16, 2011 7:08 pm

Predaprince wrote:G1: Apeface and Snapdragon; Quickswitch; Sixshot; Sky Lynx; Trypticon and Scorponok (if you count their battle stations as vehicles)

Beast Wars: Transmetals; Optimal Optimus; TM2 Megatron (if you want to count his roller skates as a vehicle mode)

Beast Wars II Maximals have attack modes that are somewhat like stationary attack vehicles.

RiD Megatron

These are the ones that I know of.

the only one i knew of was sixshot who had a wolf as a beast mode

News Credits: 37 · Mon May 16, 2011 7:13 pm

Optimal Optimus? He had a monkey mode, and a truck mode! The transmetal 3 one did anyway.

And Cheetor, if seperate universes count and if you count the toy only version of Animated Cheetor. And Rattrap, except he was actually in the show and never got a toy.

News Credits: 2 · Mon May 16, 2011 7:40 pm

I always found these types of transformers odd. The concept never really gelled with me.

Anyway, the only one I can think of is Beast Machines Rattrap.

http://www.transformers-universe.com/in ... a716f0580c

Mon May 16, 2011 9:36 pm

Does it count if they have a reformatting between being a vehicle and a beast? If so, there's Overhaul the trukk who became Leobreaker the lion from Cybertron.

Tue May 17, 2011 4:13 am

Optimum Supreme wrote:Does it count if they have a reformatting between being a vehicle and a beast? If so, there's Overhaul the trukk who became Leobreaker the lion from Cybertron.

If that counts, then so does BM Silverbolt who went from Jetstorm as a jet to Silverbolt as a condor.

News Credits: 3 · Tue May 17, 2011 4:16 am

sixshot (his repaints/remolds if you count toys)

tarantulus had a motorcycle and a spider mode. BW rampage had a tank and a crab mode.

Tue May 17, 2011 4:24 am

Maybe everyone should read my first post, since they are just repeating some of the ones that I did already list.

News Credits: 241 · Tue May 17, 2011 10:33 am

Predaprince wrote:Maybe everyone should read my first post, since they are just repeating some of the ones that I did already list.

People reading posts? :lol:

And it was the BW Neo Maximals who had attack modes, not Beast Wars II. Although B'Boom / Apache had a "Mode 3" Weapons platform. And Transmetal Megatron has the skates next to the hover fans, not the TM2 Dragon

Aside from that, they're all nailed:

G1
Horrorcons Apeface and Snapdragon
Sixshot
Quickswitch
Sky Lynx (no humanoid robot mode, he's a bit of a cheat)
"Dropshot" (an abandoned Triplechanger)

Beast Wars
All Transmetals had vehicle-like "Transport Modes", but not the TM2's. The larger TM2's had a vehicle mode planned, but they were nixed. Some elements remained in their design.

Robots in Disguise
Megatron / Galvatron

Energon
Scorponok (again, a cheat as the "beast mode" is more like a vehicle shaped like a scorpion)

Tue May 17, 2011 2:48 pm

Optimal Optimus is a TM2 and TM2 had "roller skate" knees on the toy is what I meant.

News Credits: 241 · Tue May 17, 2011 3:39 pm

Predaprince wrote:Optimal Optimus is a TM2 and TM2 had "roller skate" knees on the toy is what I meant.

Nope, Optimal Optimus' toy packaging still said "Transmetal". Besides, he hardly has asymmetric organic detailing the Transmetals 2 have. But I digress...

News Credits: 1 · Wed May 18, 2011 8:12 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Predaprince wrote:Maybe everyone should read my first post, since they are just repeating some of the ones that I did already list.

People reading posts? And it was the BW Neo Maximals who had attack modes, not Beast Wars II. Although B'Boom / Apache had a "Mode 3" Weapons platform. And Transmetal Megatron has the skates next to the hover fans, not the TM2 Dragon

Aside from that, they're all nailed:

G1
Horrorcons Apeface and Snapdragon
Sixshot
Quickswitch
Sky Lynx (no humanoid robot mode, he's a bit of a cheat)
"Dropshot" (an abandoned Triplechanger)

Beast Wars
All Transmetals had vehicle-like "Transport Modes", but not the TM2's. The larger TM2's had a vehicle mode planned, but they were nixed. Some elements remained in their design.

Robots in Disguise
Megatron / Galvatron

Energon
Scorponok (again, a cheat as the "beast mode" is more like a vehicle shaped like a scorpion)

While it may be a technicality, you missed one from G1: Great Shot. http://www.tfu.info/1989/Cybertron/GreatShot/greatshot.htm http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Greatshot

While he may be a remold, he does have a brand new beast mode type(Rhino!!), and is definitely a new character.

And goodness, I nearly forgot to include Beast Wars II Galvatron!! From dragon to drill tank to robot and back again!

Other cheat Transformers I can think of are ROTF Ravage(if you call whatever he transforms into a "vehicle"), and that upcoming DOTM Griffin guy whose name escapes me right now.

News Credits: 241 · Wed May 18, 2011 1:18 pm

If we're counting Japanese characters:

Sixknight (repainted Quickswitch)
Great Shot

...

Dang it.

The Cousin line Yuusha (Brave) had some more:

Dino Geist
Draias (another cheat, he splits into three beasts and has a combined Jet mode)
7-Changer (has a whopping 2! Beast Modes: a feline and a griffin)
Bombers (4 Trains with a Beast mode, Robot Mode and even a Combiner Mode!)
Shadowmaru (based on Sixshot, has a ninja motif, and a Doberman Pinscher for a Beast Mode as he works for the Brave Police)
Baan Gaan (unproduced, he's like Star Convoy with an additional Dragon Mode)

Fri May 20, 2011 10:55 am

just toylines figures: Alternators Ravage (one of the two) and DOTM Hatchet (but I dunno if he's really going to be a toy-only character)

News Credits: 1 · Fri May 20, 2011 11:15 am

How about those characters that hold up somewhere inbetween? G1 Insecticons have always been a bit dubious to me.

News Credits: 241 · Fri May 20, 2011 1:56 pm

RhA wrote:How about those characters that hold up somewhere inbetween? G1 Insecticons have always been a bit dubious to me.

Well, they, as well as the Dinobots, do have visible cockpits, a remnant from their parent line Diaclone. In the Transformers comics and cartoon however they were omitted, rending their alt mode as a beast mode.