Beast Hunter Starsquito is a great idea
The Repaint Concept Thread
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It's not far off!
It's because there's only one, if there were 20 boxes of them clogging up the shelf, you'd have known.
I've always wondered. With how notorious shelfwarmers a lot of Beast Wars bugs were (Transquito, Drillbit, Injector, TM Scavenger, Inferno, Scarem, etc) that none of the offical content (conventions* especially) decided to use them as army-builders, or a swarm controlled by a much bigger threat.
*Granted, in the early 2000's Vehicons were THE faceless, expendable army.
*Granted, in the early 2000's Vehicons were THE faceless, expendable army.
The buggy Buzzclaw mold was used as two characters and an army-builder duo for BotCon 2005.
None of the other BW bug molds were used as army-builders beforehand because the pre-Fun Pub BotCons from before 2005 didn't do army-builders.
BotCon 2015 did eventually give us army-builders using the mold of another BW bug character (Waspinator), but it was from his Generations Thrilling 30 mold instead of the original BW mold.
None of the other BW bug molds were used as army-builders beforehand because the pre-Fun Pub BotCons from before 2005 didn't do army-builders.
BotCon 2015 did eventually give us army-builders using the mold of another BW bug character (Waspinator), but it was from his Generations Thrilling 30 mold instead of the original BW mold.
It's an interesting question. Beast Machines got there eventually, but a drone army would have fit the world described by Beast Wars toy bios perfectly.
The Beast Era club fiction seemed to focus on behind the scenes of the show, so I guess it would have been tricky to explain away an army of mosquito dudes on prehistoric Earth or on Vehicon-occupied Cybertron.
After that, it revolves around Unicron abducting transformers from different realities and everybody knows Unicron only armybuilds Sweeps after he spent too much on Blentrons.
After that, it revolves around Unicron abducting transformers from different realities and everybody knows Unicron only armybuilds Sweeps after he spent too much on Blentrons.
I wonder if that'd look good with the sides of the chest cube also in red (maybe with some gold), to sell the vibe of Soundblaster's larger, protruding tape compartment.
Also, I wish they'd go back to either a comms truck or stealth bomber for Soundwave's altmode, Cybertronian or otherwise. These "we have The Bat at home" ones are consistently terrible.
Also, I wish they'd go back to either a comms truck or stealth bomber for Soundwave's altmode, Cybertronian or otherwise. These "we have The Bat at home" ones are consistently terrible.
Back during the lead up to the first Bay movie, there was some confusion that Blackout was going to be Soundwave.
Ever since then, I've been wanting to see him as a silenced black helicopter.
Makes sense, given he did deploy a little animal guy to go around chasing humans.
Blackout is one of those characters that gets criminally underused. We got an Animated version (sort of), but I would love to see a Generations-style reimagining, and a Soundwave retool or redeco would be neat. (Of course, I would also want Cop-tur and Flip-Top redecos, and that would be a lot of blue..)
Actually, the Bayverse convention from the first film where the Decepticons are military and police vehicles, while the Autobots are rescue or civilian vehicles would be kind of cool for a Generations line.
Someone should redo that in the colors of the one with Nemesis Star Convoy.
Not just TF '07. That was an Armada thing, too. Also Animated, mostly.
As much as I like clear distinctions between the two factions, it almost never really lasts.
One could call it an "Aaron Archer era" thing.
Lots of Transformers series have had "Autobots are civilian vehicles and Decepticons are military vehicles" loosely, with some exceptions on each side.
I think the 2007 movie was the only time it was true for literally every onscreen character with a vehicle mode. (If you include the toyline or video games, even it has exceptions.)
The movie was also the first time police vehicles got put on the Decepticon side instead of Autobot...which makes sense because actual police seemed to stop considering themselves civilians during that same decade.
And that part didn't really stick; there still aren't many police alt-mode Decepticons who aren't Barricade (the Universe 2008 version of Onslaught being one exception), and Animated in particular did the exact opposite with Prowl, Bulkhead, and technically Bumblebee all being police vehicles.
I think the 2007 movie was the only time it was true for literally every onscreen character with a vehicle mode. (If you include the toyline or video games, even it has exceptions.)
The movie was also the first time police vehicles got put on the Decepticon side instead of Autobot...which makes sense because actual police seemed to stop considering themselves civilians during that same decade.
And that part didn't really stick; there still aren't many police alt-mode Decepticons who aren't Barricade (the Universe 2008 version of Onslaught being one exception), and Animated in particular did the exact opposite with Prowl, Bulkhead, and technically Bumblebee all being police vehicles.