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I gave up trying to get an original bright white Takara Tigatron a long time ago.

I just don't get why Hasbro painted theirs in such an off-white cream color.

Craptastic it was.

Beast Wars Tigatron is the the 1999th Transformer that I've acquired.

Beast Wars Tigatron (Botcon 2001 Exclusive) is the 1920th Transformer that I've acquired.

Beast Wars Cheetas (10th Anniversary TakaraToy Reissue) is the 1846th Transformer that I've acquired.

Beast Wars Black Widow (10th Anniversary TakaraToy Reissue) is the 1845th Transformer that I've acquired.

Beast Wars Dinobot (10th Anniversary TakaraToy Reissue) is the 1844th Transformer that I've acquired.

I'm totally in love with her.

She's all orange and stuff.

Transformers Club Exclusive Airrazor is the 1835th and 1836th Transformers that I've acquired. (I got 1 for the boxed set and 1 for the loose set from Botcon!)

So Remy Rodis has a gallery of Club Airazor up and all I gotta say is "Damn! That's a mighty fine retool/repaint!".

She's great!

She's quite the brightly colored figure but honestly, if you go to the original Airazor, it works!

He even did a pic of both of them.

Please. Airazor. Get here. Soon.

I can truthfully say that Hasbro has worked out the quality issues on the 6" titanium figures.

Optimal Optimus is top notch! He's great! His paint deco is decent. He's solid and not flimsy!

He rocks!

Titanium Optimal Optimus is the 1745th Transformer that I've ever gotten.

I'm not a huge fan of these but I bought a set to complete the theme for the year.

These are the 1712th and 1713th Transformers I've ever purchased.

Tigertron was extremely limited and only given to actual attendees who purchased the full package.

This is the 1711th Transformer I've ever purchased.

So I was busy out of town and hadn't read my email that Evebird was going to buy me one of these with the 2 for 1 at Toys R Us this weekend.

So. I ended up getting 2 sets. One will replace my originals on the Beast Wars shelves and the others are MIB keepers for a few years.

These are the 1686th through 1689th Transformers I've ever purchased.

An extremely stupid ebay purchase.

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Found a Beast Wars 10th Anniversary Optimus Primal today and I'm just not warming up to him. I loves me some Beast Wars 10th Anniversary Megatron but Primal is only kinda meh.

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I picked up the Beast Wars souvenir set at Iacon One too.

I gotta admit for something so simple I really do like them.

It is great that they did their souvenir set so that it relates somewhat to Botcon 2006's Beast Wars set yet is something never released before by Hasbro or Takara.

These boys rock!

I dropped $100 on them only to come back to Cowtown and see this news.

Of course, Hasbro can never remotely package something as beautiful as Takara did with these guys.

None of my photos really come out due to the cellophane and my lack of studio lights.

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I was looking at Remy Rodis' new 10th Anniversary Beast Wars Optimus Primal gallery and you know what? I don't think I'll take a liking to this figure.

There's just something that doesn't jive well with my expectations of what a "Primal" figure should be nor with what I thought current engineering and design could give.

However, with that said, if the head was retooled slightly and his redeco was more white, I'd totally love this as say Magnus Primal, the "brother" of Optimus Primal in the tradition of the whole G1 Prime/Ultra Magnus brotherhood thing.

In fact, the gorilla mode in this pic makes it even more a Magnus Primal for me.

So the final issue of the IDW Beast Wars series came out this past week and once again I'm trying to find some reason to find something of value in Simon Furman's writing.

Can someone please explain to me why so many Transformer fans think Furman is a good writer?

I know that some of his recent Marvel work has gotten decent reviews but his Transformers stuff (no matter the era) just doesn't seem to offer me anything on any level.

I picked up the IDW Beast Wars series because I love Don Figueroa's ability to illustrate Transformers. Not only can he illustrate a beautiful bot but he also can usually create a design that truly looks like it can transform into something else. He's the only illustrator that I've seen on this material that really nails it!

I didn't expect as much out of this Beast stuff due to their inherently different design aesthetic but he delivered quality art here.

But story? Other than some great Figueroa covers and panels there was just no real story. The plot and story could have been scribbled on napkins at a bar at a Transformers convention for all I know. There's just nothing there of substance.

Now the biggest problem with Transformers (of any flavour) is when someone trys to shoehorn a logical explanation for the fact that some of the toys were made.

This is especially hard to do for the sprawl that was non-show appearing Beast Wars toys. Between those toys and the many repaints that were supposed to be different characters, you've got so much filler that doesn't necessarily need any fiction. They are what they are: just toys. And perhaps that's all they should be.

But in this series, an attempt is made to explain these characters and of course, since pretty much all of them have Earth animal (historical and modern) modes, they have to somehow be on Earth to scan the mode.

Here's where what little story logic there is totally collapses for me.

Lio Convoy (and what appears to be the Convoy/Autobot Council) sends spy Razorbeast to infiltrate Magmatron's group to follow Megatron and retrieve him.

Magmatron and his Predacons basically end up going back in time to the Beast Wars television series right after the episode where Ravage's ship has crashed.

Now this group is out of "time synch" so they can't interact with the Beast Wars television series characters but through Razorbeast's actions, many of the protoform/stasis pods ejected by Optimus Primal in episode #1 of Beast Wars becomes new characters. It basically is a way for them to not disrupt the story we see in the Beast Wars show but also to "get them on Earth" to have their beast modes. It is actually a pretty thin excuse.

That's it!

That's how all these characters come about by being shoehorned into the mainline Beast Wars story.

And for 4 issues it is basically these characters fighting every now and then and new characters being introduced as Razorbeast alters protoforms to become other Maximals instead of the Predacon army that Magmatron wants.

It basically devolves into a a form of the 1980's Marvel Transformers comic where characters pop up, say their name, maybe fight someone, and are never heard from again.

The art as expected is good. There's a few money shots here and there for TF geeks to cream on.

But otherwise it all fell flat for me like most comics do. The art is better than say that Master Collector TF comic but the stories just as thin and pointless.

Indeed. Not all toys need fiction to go with them.

And this is especially true of Beast Wars.

Of course, there's probably a lot of fans that liked these so more power to them. IDW needs an audience to keep their licensing alive.

Yay! With the acquisition of Beast Wars Metals "Ravage" I now have a complete set of Beast Wars figures for all characters that appear in the television show!!!

I am so the lame!!!

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Did I tell you that Mr. E. is selling off some crack to pay for Botcon 06? Probably not.

Anyway, I'm buying his Takara Beast Wars Metals Jaguar, the only figure in existence that actually looks like Ravage (Jaguar) did in Beast Wars Season 2 episodes.

That should complete my collection of show-appearing Beast Wars characters.

Um. Ew.

I was sorta-kinda excited at Botcon 2005 when these were announced but now that images are finally hitting sites and the detail can be seen I have to say these are really pretty ugly.

Celebrate 10 years of Beast Wars by releasing new toys of the 2 leaders that may as well be different characters entirely.

The new 10th Anniversary Optimus Primal and Megratron are total duds in my book. Not buying these will be pretty healthy for me.

Beast Wars Neo Stampy!!!

The greatest Transformer ever made!!!

Period!!!

With the birthday presents from Giga yesterday I now have all the parts to make Transmutate, the poor birth defect riddled Transformer from the eponymously titled Beast Wars episode "Transmutate".

What a sad character and kudos for Hasbro for making a figure.

However, super mega nasty balls to Hasbro for spreading 6 pieces of the figure over 6 10th Anniversary toys, resulting in basically a $100 Transmutate figure.

Then again, I suppose that is the only way we'd ever get something like this.

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