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Originally Posted by TMIIWonkoNemises
I'm speaking about the television series more than the toyline.
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But they're intertwined. The toyline provided the impetus for the show, but the show influenced the toyline and also brought it attention.
I, like many others, saw the initial Beast Wars figures and scoffed. It wasn't so much Trukk not munky as it was that the figures sucked. It just added insult to injury that the simplistic, tiny, bat
thing was supposed to be Prime. How many people saw those initial toys and were ready to write off Beast Wars completely forever?
And then the show. Again, like many others, I didn't make a concerted effort to find and watch the show. It found me. And after I picked up my jaw from the floor, I realized a few things. The first was that the show was good. The second is that it was somewhat of a dream come true -- watching CGI Transformers with (more or less) accurate transformations.
Watching the show invested me in the characters, but also provided me with insight into their transformations. Not all of them were simplistic or stupid. Some of them were intriguing. And it made me take a second look at the toys.
It's that back-and-forth reinforcement between the quality of the toys and the show that makes Beast Wars special. The only thing that's come close since has been Animated (we'll see about Prime).