The Energon Pub

[tacogrande]

We all know Beast Machines was cut early and RiD was transitioned in as fast as possible. This caused many a figure to get cancelled or carried over to RiD. It seems like mostly the bigger or more popular figures were released in RiD like Primal and Megatron. I'm sure there were a few maximals or vehicons that just wouldn't fit in anywhere so they held onto them. There wasn't any opening to release them in armada or energon, but Cybertron had a little bit of everything.

Hasbro had those few figures released at the end of cybertron that I believe only America got. Downshift definitely looked like a cybertron figure. Shortround I have no idea. But damn does wreckloose look like a left over maximal or what?

I heard a rumor on here that the transtech figures were going to be released in cybertron but they went with classics instead.

I'm sort of a beast machine toy enthusiast, it'd make me really happy to know that it's possible there are more beast machines unproduced toys at hasbro that still have a possibility of being made. Does anyone have any info on this? Does anyone know what figures after beast machines ended were meant to be in beast machines but were carried over, and does anyone have any concept drawings or unproduced figure pics from beast machines?


Thanks!

[Sid Burn]

Sorry, cant help you there.

Though I would love to have a Botanica figure to fill out my BM collection. I always thought it was a shame she never saw a mold.

[tacogrande]

Nobody likes me and my best machines

Botanica would have been cool, just to see what a plantformer would look like. It's just a scary thought because then we're only a little far off from nature bots... like rock lords... and soon transformers is renamed gobots and the world is on fire. Nobody wants that. Nobody wants gobots.


(PS I love gobots I'm a chode for dissing them.)

[Sid Burn]

when it comes to gobots, dont stop on my account, I always hated those little buggers. They are the poor man's transformer.

[Doctor Paragon]

[quote="Sid Burn"]when it comes to gobots, dont stop on my account, I always hated those little buggers. They are the poor man's transformer.[/quote]
This one isn't: htttp://alma.skr.jp/mtblog/archives/200 ... t_104.html

Seeing as how the toy depicted in the link above came out
back when powermaster prime did, and it did a helluva lot
more and was still quit posable.

[Loki120]

RID Bruticus was also a leftover mold from the Beast Machine's line. It's mechanics were removed and was released under the RID line.

Not quite the same, but the four Spychangers, Daytonus, Prowl 2, Side Swipe, and Side Burn were originally unproduced molds from the G2 line.