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So ... I'm jumping the gun on this topic a little early. I'm making a big push to get the galleries done for the Masterpiece Beast Wars figures. I'm basically at the halfway point with all of their beast modes completed.

Most of them are a pain in the ass and very complex to transform (especially when dealing with all 10 of them as of this post). This is basically a one-way gallery process as they're too complicated to switch back and forth if I miss anything.

Before I transform them all to robot mode over the next week, is there anything not-so-obvious that you guys would like to see for comparisons? I've done the obvious things that I think people will want to see such as Dinobot with other versions, Burning Convoy and MP-38 riding on Lio Convoy, group shots, comparison shots between the 3 Beast Convoys, comparison shots between Cheetor and Shadow Panther, Blackarachnia (Black Widow) delicately on her spider web accessory (which took about 45 minutes to get her on it ... urgh), their different faces, Dinobot with golden disk, Megatron and Dinobot on Dinobot's stand, Blackarachnia hanging from Unicron's stand, Burning Convoy with Robot Masters and original, Optimus Primal vs Megatron fighting shots emulating Beast Wars episode 2, group shot of animated cast, shots with their Kingdom versions (which is what is really driving all of this to be honest, because I've been stuck on Kingdom Megatron and Blackarachnia's galleries since last November), and so on.

The only shots I have planned left that I think I need to do are Optimus Primal / Beast Convoy with his bananas and one more group shot but this time with all 10 Masterpiece Beast Wars figures that have been released so far.

Anything in particular that you guys think should be in these galleries? Think less wishlist stuff and more necessity type stuff. I'm already about 900 photos in so don't want to get bogged down with stuff that isn't necessary (such as comparing Tigatron to every version of the original Tigatron), but want to make sure I got all of the key shots and comparisons. If you think of anything that's an absolute must for these galleries, please let me know ASAP!

Just to clarify, I'm just looking for suggestions for beast mode shots right now that I might have overlooked. I'll get things like Lio Convoy and Beast Convoy shaking hands at a later date when I do their robot mode pics!

In the meantime, here're some teaser shots!

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Knock-knock? Anyone here?

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Ugh. I discovered when I transformed Blackarachnia and Megatron that I had both of them slightly transformed. I had the "robot mode" spider-eyes that show up on her abdomen in robot mode flipped outward instead of rotated inside. Urgh. As for Beast Wars Megatron, he looked more-or-less fine when he was in beast mode but the seams in dinosaur mode were pretty rough. When I transformed him back to robot mode, I discovered that I was supposed to push his robot mode shoulders away the rear of the figure (toward the front chest), but they were already in that position so I wonder if they had been moved forward if the beast mode panel seams would have fit together better.

I'm not redoing the pics because the Megatron pics look good enough and the only time you see the Blackarachnia part mistransformed is the one shot I did of her from the underside.

Frustrating. But calling it out before one of you do when I post these eventually.