Favorite Transformer?

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I always laughed at how iron hide would just yell out “PRIME” in this over the top voice.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

 

[Shades of Eternity]

why no one like waspinator?

Waspinator is a truely fantastic character and was a highlight of beastwars.

But once you take out Dinobot, it is really neck and neck of some of the best characters in all of transformerdom.

Optimus Primal
Megatron
Rat Trap
Rhinox
Black Arachnia
Silverbolt
Tarantulas
Inferno
rampage

and yes even Waspinator, makes it super difficult to pic a best beast war character.

 

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and yes even Waspinator, makes it super difficult to pic a best beast war character.

well we know the favorite non transforming character was Megatron's Rubber Ducky

 

[Arnie_Wan_Kenobi]

Waspinator is a truely fantastic character and was a highlight of beastwars.

But once you take out Dinobot, it is really neck and neck of some of the best characters in all of transformerdom.

Optimus Primal
Megatron
Rat Trap
Rhinox
Black Arachnia
Silverbolt
Tarantulas
Inferno
rampage

and yes even Waspinator, makes it super difficult to pic a best beast war character.

Dinobot was amazing. It's like:
Dinobot-tier
Everybodyelseinclosesecond
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Scorpinok and Terrorsaur

(Note: the original form of this joke used Botanica as the punchline, but was edited because 1. We're talking Beast Wars, not Beast Machine, 2. I crossed Botanica and Transmutate in my head, 3. I actually feel sympathy for Transmutate, and 4. I forgot to completely block Beast Machines from my memory.)

(Okay, okay. I have a ton of respect for the Beast Machines effort to do something new and different. It just didn't hit right for me, especially the characterizatiom that seemed to take a sharp 90-degree turn from Beast Wars. I can squint and see it aa character development, but it really felt like a disservice to the entirely of Beast Wars.)

 

[Mind of tempest]

As a kid I always liked Thundercracker, because jets were cool and blue was my favorite color and he was the blue jet. I also liked the way he wasn't totally in with the Deceps--independence appealed to me.

Looking back, though, I have to say Chris Latta wound up creating an enduring character with Starscream. That high-voiced, backstabbing, not-as-smart-as-he-thinks-he-is Decepticon wound up in every later version of the series, and while some of it is the dramatic tension of the dissension within the bad guys, you have to give some of the credit to his characterization. I'm sorry he died young, because I would have liked to see him get some recommendation for being the smartass in all of our memories as the kids who grew up with the show became adults and were able to talk about how Optimus Prime's death was the first encounter with that for a lot of us with more sheltered lives, or how Unicron was the first encounter with the Burkean sublime.

starscream is one of those legendary backstabbing characters dude is more of a Judes than judes ever was.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

Dinobot was amazing. It's like:
Dinobot-tier
Everybodyelseinclosesecond
.
.
.
.
.
.
Scorpinok and Terrorsaur

(Note: the original form of this joke used Botanica as the punchline, but was edited because 1. We're talking Beast Wars, not Beast Machine, 2. I crossed Botanica and Transmutate in my head, 3. I actually feel sympathy for Transmutate, and 4. I forgot to completely block Beast Machines from my memory.)

(Okay, okay. I have a ton of respect for the Beast Machines effort to do something new and different. It just didn't hit right for me, especially the characterizatiom that seemed to take a sharp 90-degree turn from Beast Wars. I can squint and see it aa character development, but it really felt like a disservice to the entirely of Beast Wars.)

I liked Beast Machines (probably because I saw it first).

It was essentially Transformers : PTSD, which explains everybody's change in personality.

In some cases, literally completely changed by a certain Megatron.

I would have loved to see a sequal series, provided they had built on it, rather then hitting the trauma button again.

(best character Black Arachnia. She finally gets her crap sorted out after Beast Wars, and her whole world falls apart and now has to return the favor and rescue Silverbolt, whether he likes it or not. All while being sneaky enough that everybody wonders if she's still a villain)

 

[Arnie_Wan_Kenobi]

I liked Beast Machines (probably because I saw it first).

It was essentially Transformers : PTSD, which explains everybody's change in personality.

In some cases, literally completely changed by a certain Megatron.

I would have loved to see a sequal series, provided they had built on it, rather then hitting the trauma button again.

(best character Black Arachnia. She finally gets her crap sorted out after Beast Wars, and her whole world falls apart and now has to return the favor and rescue Silverbolt, whether he likes it or not. All while being sneaky enough that everybody wonders if she's still a villain)

I could see that; I definitely get the "Transformers: PTSD" (sing that to the tune of the G1 "More Than Meets the Eye"). One one hand, much of the character development DID make (a kind of) sense in terms of a narrative arc; they really pushed how the "last survivors" would react and change, grow, or regress. On the other hand...I just didn't like it. And that's fine. I can appreciate what they tried to do and still go, "Eh. Not for me." And I can COMPLETELY see how coming into it new would be a good watch; that's exactly what Beast Wars was for me. (I also discovered Beast Wars before I discovered the "Trukk Not Monkey!" internet wars, so I came into it first run and fresh.)

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

It's hard to argue against Soundwave - a cassette player with that sweet vocoder voice.

I also like the Constructicons' Mixmaster and Insecticons' Shrapnel (those bugs have some great designs).

When I was a kid, I was mildly into Gobots, but have gotten moreso as an adult. That most of them don't carry weapons kinda appeals to me now. If we're talking favorite Gobot, it's gotta be Tux, the Rolls Royce that wears a dang top hat in robot form:

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

When I was a kid, I was mildly into Gobots, but have gotten moreso as an adult. That most of them don't carry weapons kinda appeals to me now. If we're talking favorite Gobot, it's gotta be Tux, the Rolls Royce that wears a dang top hat in robot form:

The fact that Gobots have facial hair and wear top hats really speaks to how much cocaine was floating around Hollywood in the early 1980s.