And they probably picked the velociraptor because Jurassic Park had made them cool (and having a non-anthropomorphized insect/arachnid as a hero was too hard a sell right off the bat for a kids cartoon).
The first-wave 1996 toys were made before the cartoon, so Dinobot's toy was already a Maximal before the show came up with the defector idea. His original toy bio presents him as simply a heroic Maximal by default:The cartoon and toys were developed together right? It's not G1 where they had the figures from disparate lines, and had to decide how to divide them up between sides. So the story/cartoon is how he wound up a Maximal. He began as a Pred and switched sides.
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Welp, looks like Icebird finally got the Generations treatment.
I swear they did the Mutants just like the did the Prime Legacy characters.Yeah, the owl looks great, but the new toy's bear mode is so boxy. Cost-cutting strikes again. Maybe it would have worked better as a voyager.
Scrapper: "Well, excuuuuuuuse me, Starscream! It's not exactly easy to play the trumpet without the use of any elbows!"
Just offscreen are a million more Sweeps that we can't see.