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Cybersnark

Well-known member
Citizen
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).
 

Sabrblade

Continuity Nutcase
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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.
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:

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That's also why several of the pre-Transmetal toys looked so different form the cartoon models. Mainframe took the toy designs and made changes to them, hence why Rhinox in the cartoon doesn't look like a samurai while his toy does, or why Optimus's mouthplate has a slit cut open for a visible mouth in the cartoon while the toy has a complete mouthplate.
 


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