| Whisky Tango Foxtrot |
03-11-2021 02:39 PM |
Re: Vintage Beast Wars Action Figure Line Revealed for 2021
Did they find the original Rattrap moulds? They were lost some time prior to 2006, which is why the 10th Anniversary release used the Transmetal version.
I'm probably going to skip these, though. I already have the Telemocha Primal and Megatron, which use the same engineering as the originals (albeit at a smaller scale and exchanging gimmicks for show-accuracy) and I'm not that interested in this version of Cheetor and Rattrap.
Come to think of it, I'm not sure if there are any original Beast Wars figures that I really want, aside from stand-outs like Silverbolt that I already have. The Beast Wars show was really an example of making a silk purse out of a pig's ear. All the stuff they were provided with by Hasbro/Kenner (the toy designs, the names, the premise, etc.) were pretty terrible, but the show's creators were able to salvage it by focusing on strong writing and voice acting (not to mention just throwing out a lot of what they had been given, such as Hasbro's original story for the series, and radically re-designing a lot of the characters.)
As far as the toyline was concerned, the Truk Not Munky people had it right. Sure, they had better articulation than a lot of what had come before (although the tail-end of G2 had already introduced some fairly well-articulated vehicle Transformers) but they looked terrible and transformation-wise they tended to either be shellformers or just stand up to transform.
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