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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Green Knight" data-source="post: 337809" data-attributes="member: 2723">Dr. Archeville, eh? Optimus Prime from <a href="http://boards.allspark.com" target="_blank">http://boards.allspark.com</a> right here (Also using Optimus Prime at AUG, though I've yet to post there, as well as the BWTF forums).  And considering what name I go under on Transformers boards, it's pretty obvious who my favorite Transformer is.  Anyway, Hand of Vecna is right. The reason they had to change Megatron is because of current toy safety laws. Look at the current Laserbeak. He turns into a fake laser gun, but even THEN that wasn't enough. Their color choices were limited to blue and orange. Does anyone here want to see Megatron turn into a kiddie lazer gun with a blue or orange paint scheme? No thank you.  As for Armada, yeah, that was painful. I was thouroughly disappointed by it. From what I understand, they didn't even write it, beforehand. See, they want to air it in both the US and Japan. And so to save them the trouble of dubbing it from one language to the other, they had it animated first and then had the dialogue inserted afterwards. So there's a reason for the awful dialogue. Though that hardly makes me feel better at how lacklustre the show was. Or how much the kids were focused on to the exclusion of the Transformers. Or many other reasons why Armada was a letdown. *sigh* Oh well. With any luck, they'll drastically improve the series and soon.  BTW: They didn't end Beast Machines for Robots In Disguise. They ended Beast Wars for Beast Machines. It was supposed to go longer, but they decided to take the line in a completely new direction and so cancelled Beast Wars after the 3rd season. Beast Machines, on the other hand, was only supposed to last 2 years. Whatever the case, I'm glad it wasn't to go longer. God, does Beast Machines suck. Yeah, RID is weak, but it was still pretty entertaining (And if you didn't know this, it wasn't made to be aired in the US. It was originally Car Robots, a Japanese series, and Hasbro decided to fill out a year by dubbing that series over and bringing over the toy line. It was nothing more than filler). Whatever the case, I'd have much preferred for Beast Wars to have lasted longer than it did, rather than to have it cut short only to be replaced by Beast Machines.</blockquote>

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