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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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)

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

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...

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.

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)

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)

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

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.

jaysus lads.

cant believe you forgot doubledealer !

partholon wrote:jaysus lads.

cant believe you forgot doubledealer !

And I own him no less!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:If we're counting Japanese characters...

partholon wrote:...cant believe you forgot doubledealer !

Better add Clouder to the list