Onslaught Six wrote:You mean the show wasn't toy accurate.
Transformers is a toyline first.
Except not all Transformers series have started out as a toyline first.
Beast Machines was probably the first series where Hasbro was developing the toys in conjunction with Mainframe already working on animating the show with both companies developing what they had based on concept art.
Transformers Prime would be another example, where Hasbro actually emphasized it being a TV show first and developing the toys later, which is why the toys are only just now being released while the show is already into its second season.
And then there are the War for Cybertron video game designs which weren't originally intended to get any toys but Hasbro decided to make a few figures for the Generations line after the fact.
Even with the movies, the concepts for the movies themselves was developed first with Hasbro basing the toys off of that.
I'll never understand this complaint. The toys were awesome. People just whined because they were too attached to a cartoon that they couldn't separate it from the toys.
One of the main points of the cartoon series is to sell toys isn't it? People generally want the toys to accurately represent the characters they're supposed to be. Some figures later on in the series were designed to be more show accurate (the motocycle and tank drones for example) but really Hasbro could have done a better job with the line. There's no reason for things like Nightscream getting an Ultra sized toy while Silverbolt got a Basic.
Dominic wrote:I am just saying that there was better animation at the time. For "lowest bidder yeoman's job", BW was great. But, I am not going to say it was the best of its time.
How was the work Mainframe did the "lowest bidder yeoman's job"? Seriously, find a CGI animation studio that was doing
television at the time that was better than Mainframe. Heck, here it is almost 20 years later and Beast Wars still looks decent to some of today's shows.
