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For those who wish Transtech had made it further than just rough designs on paper... I can't help you.

However, for those who like looking at some great designs from the canceled Transtech line of toys, check out the Draxhall website here. It's been updated with a slew of concept images and design studies from what is being described as Transtech.


There are a lot of sketches to go through, and not all are Transtech, but if you look you can see some fabulous transforming futuristic military vehicles, and a particular robot mode that seems to reference a certain speech impeded sub-faction commander that we all love (Concept 2)!

Enjoy these sketches!

Grimlock???

I demand this turning into an actual series/comic/toyline!

Yes, that was who I was referring to. Concept 2 seems to resemble him very closely.

GOD DAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (sry for language) But this would have made the awsomest series but know they scrapped it DAMNIT (sry again) BRING BACH TRANSTECH

cool. Any way to see them in full without the annoying sidebar?

Very nice designs.

Whether or not they would have translated into a good series, and good toys is another question.

'Sobs'

I want this so much.

I'm liking the look of Animated so far. But this would've been kick ass.

At least give us a comic series people!

Hey, if the titanium series survived, Transtech could have lived again.

It's good they pulled the beast era when they did. Don't get me wrong, I loved Beast Wars, thats what got me back into TFs, but the characters ran their course, and Beast Machines was a fine farewell in my opinion.

It sewed up the story, and left an opening for an untapped future.

Still, I can't help but wonder what TransTech would have offered in said future, even though I think it's better left undone.

However they did seem to have some intresting ideas, and it would be nice to see were they where heading with that.

I don't know if it's been done, and if it hase please let me know, but maybe IDW could elaborate the idea as I doubt any toon series would. I'd like to see how it would play out.

How do you get rid of that bar so you can see the image?

i_amtrunks wrote:Very nice designs.

Whether or not they would have translated into a good series, and good toys is another question.

Transtech Cheetor final concept: http://www.tfarchive.com/fandom/transte ... etor03.jpg
Transtech Cheetor prototype: http://www.behindthetoys.com/forums/top ... IC_ID=7195

Transtech Starscream final concept: http://www.tfarchive.com/fandom/transte ... ream02.jpg
Transtech Starscream prototype: http://www.behindthetoys.com/forums/top ... IC_ID=7198

IMO the toys wouldn't have lost much at all in the translation.

IDW needs to pick this up as a comic.

I think the bar may be one of their ways of 'safe-guarding' the images...maybe?

Amazing! Oh Transtech...I need you.
I want to see the full images

From what I can tell, there is no whole image on the site. Which sucks because I'd love to see the entire page of concept art.

I went through my cache and found a way to get the images.

it makes it hard since every image has a certain name instead of concept 1, concept 2 etc. and also what you see behind the bar is what you get since that is what the uploaded instead of just full pics.
I'll get the addresses to them all. hang tight.

the purifyer wrote:I went through my cache and found a way to get the images. it makes it hard since every image has a certain name instead of concept 1, concept 2 etc. and also what you see behind the bar is what you get since that is what the uploaded instead of just full pics.
I'll get the addresses to them all. hang tight.

Was just about to post the same thing. There is no larger image. The original art has been cropped so what you see is what you get. I got up to about concept 41 before I got tired. You can handle the rest purifyer. Also folks do not quote my post in it's entirety. We don't need 30 images popping up 20 times on a single page.

Thanks Muffin. I was going to post links to them all but I got tired so I found you can sneak into the directory so from here you can access a tree of all the images on the site. http://www.draxhall.com/draxhall/images/

Good find man. Never thought of just going up one level to view the entire directory. Dur on my part.

Not to worry. It took me awhile to realize. I thought they'd stop people from just accessing that directory.

As you can see by the image urls some times a number is skipped. I hope they upload the rest of the concept, notably since Optimus and silverbolt are missing. There's definitely more.

Purifyer, you are a cunning moinker.

But by the titles, it looks like the 'Grimlock' concept is actually an early version of Cheetor...

[quote="Jaw Crusher]IDW needs to pick this up as a comic.[/quote]

Would make a good subject for a new "Elseworlds" style comic like Hearts of Steel. They could set it in the distant future and have the Transtech designs be the characters. What would it be called? Why "Transtech," of course! Hasbro should totally greenlight this project.

It would have been pretty cool to see these, but I can understand why we didn't.

Beast Wars didn't do well in Japan and Beast Machines wasn't even shown (until very very recently), so the Transtech continuation wouldn't have worked there.

In America, Beast Wars did well... but Beast Machines did not. Remember how the writers of the show got death threats and stuff? That was TFs darkest hour in my opinion... we scared off some geniune scifi writers from ever wanting to touch Transformes (Babylon 5 writer J. Michael Strazinsky had considered writing for TF... but decided not to after he saw how they treated the BMs guy).

So, in the states, there was also no real reason to continue the Beast Wars story into Transtech.

In Japan, a little series of mostly repaints and a few good figs was getting some good attention in the way of Carrobots. Fans liked it in the states, said "bring it over here," so Hasbro was... "hmmm... they want a line of mostly repaints? Sure! Easy money."

And thus died Transtech.

However, I haven't fully given up hope of seeing these. After all, isn't that what the "Universe" line is for?

TheMuffin wrote:

the purifyer wrote:I went through my cache and found a way to get the images. it makes it hard since every image has a certain name instead of concept 1, concept 2 etc. and also what you see behind the bar is what you get since that is what the uploaded instead of just full pics.
I'll get the addresses to them all. hang tight.

Was just about to post the same thing. There is no larger image. The original art has been cropped so what you see is what you get. I got up to about concept 41 before I got tired. You can handle the rest purifyer. Also folks do not quote my post in it's entirety. We don't need 30 images popping up 20 times on a single page.

I love Cheetor's alt mode, but that robot is upsetting. As for the rest of these, and I know I already said it, it would be very cool if they could touch on these in comics and toys.

I've been looking at the TF comics more and more lately, and I do have to say that figures like the War Within Titaniums, and Classics Jetfire, are great to see as pulled off those pages.

Even the movie line adapting game figures is nice. I know they are only doing so to add filler to the line, but I hope the trend of looking towards other media for toy ideas is something that continues to grow.

Hearts of Steel Megatron anybody?

I have tons of bots that never made it to a show, and they rock just the same if not more because I'm not burdened with a pre-existing story for them. I don't see a reason why they can't just use some of these awesome designs to continue as said filler, maybe keep them as a subline to the main.

Then again, what do I know?

Black Bumblebee wrote:It would have been pretty cool to see these, but I can understand why we didn't.

Beast Wars didn't do well in Japan and Beast Machines wasn't even shown (until very very recently), so the Transtech continuation wouldn't have worked there.

In America, Beast Wars did well... but Beast Machines did not. Remember how the writers of the show got death threats and stuff? That was TFs darkest hour in my opinion... we scared off some geniune scifi writers from ever wanting to touch Transformes (Babylon 5 writer J. Michael Strazinsky had considered writing for TF... but decided not to after he saw how they treated the BMs guy).

So, in the states, there was also no real reason to continue the Beast Wars story into Transtech.

In Japan, a little series of mostly repaints and a few good figs was getting some good attention in the way of Carrobots. Fans liked it in the states, said "bring it over here," so Hasbro was... "hmmm... they want a line of mostly repaints? Sure! Easy money."

And thus died Transtech.

However, I haven't fully given up hope of seeing these. After all, isn't that what the "Universe" line is for?

To bad Hasbro got repaint fever from this line. Then again I guess it's cheaper for them to just keep recoloring Japan's left over crap than actualy make something themselves.

And you know they only charge top dollar for this stuff, do you realy think its fair that they should have to work for it now too?

It's not like Japan realy considers if we in The States will like something, if they did the Unicron Trilogy would have sucked much less, and the KISS line would have been about the band.

Come on now