by xyl360 » Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:14 pm
With Beast Wars, during season 1, the writers/show producers took many liberties with the appearance of the characters vs how their actual toys looked, in seasons 2 and 3, they were instructed by Hasbro to base the characters' appearances strictly on the appearance of the toys themselves, thus we get pretty show-accurate toys in the Transmetals/Fuzors lines.
With Beast Machines, they pretty much threw out the entire idea of making the character designs in the show look anything like the toys that Hasbro was producing, so it's hard to find anything screen-accurate for many of the characters, though there are a few exceptions (Tank Drone looks just like Tankor and his drones, Motorcycle Drone looks just like Thrust and his drones and there are a few others, but not many).
With Prime, I believe that Hasbro is deliberately modeling the appearance of each character on the show directly after the appearance of the toys themselves, which explains why the toys look so darn show-accurate. In my opinion, that's the best way of doing things since the show is simply a vehicle for selling the toys (in addition to grabbing ratings for the Hub of course).
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I am that which is, which was, and is yet to come.
And you will know my name is MEGATRON when I lay my vengeance upon you!
) and I used the arms from Electrostatic Jolt (a figure that in and of itself was quite a disappointment, so no big loss there 
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