Disclaimer: The following replies are not meant to be either antagonizing or confrontational. They are simply responses is a conversational sense.
o.supreme wrote:Sabrblade wrote:On top of this, several Beast Wars characters are also just as curvy as the Prime characters, yet look how faithful those recent updates have been.
Tarantulas is especially notable since he's actually in the Legacy line with all of his curviness completely intact!
The only possible explanation I could offer for the BW characters remaining mostly unchanged (aside from "more realistic" Beast Modes") is basically...There's no real way to make the BW characters look as if they were part of the original Transformers series without altering them to a degree so drastic, that they become completely off model.
Sure there is, but it's a way no Beast Wars fan would want to see done: Keep their same basic silhouettes, but reshape all of their limbs to be blocky and angular rather than round, and change their beast mode skins to instead look like metal paneling instead of fur, feathers, or scales. Mechanical beasts instead of organic ones, but with the same color schemes as their organic beast bodies.
o.supreme wrote:I mean I didn't mind Botcon and club exclusives that did this in the past since prose stories offered explanation.
Except, the BotCon ones you're thinking of were their pre-Earth Cybertronian bodies, so they weren't Beast Wars but "Pre-Beast Wars" (or in the case of Uprising, "Non-Beast Wars" since that was an Elseworlds-style premise).
o.supreme wrote:I understand some fans may argue that UT, and Prime characters have been altered drastically, but they are at least somewhat recognizable.
So far the UT characters in Legacy (being Override and Metroplex) have been updated rather faithfully. It's just the Prime guys who so far have been changed so drastically.
o.supreme wrote:I mean if Dinobot were a car, or Tarantulas a motorcycle, then I think people would really not be on board with all of that.
Even an organic Velociraptor Dinobot can still look wrong. I'm reminded of this hideous-inaccurate deco from Universe 2008/9:
Which Takara graciously corrected in their Henkei! Henkei! release:
o.supreme wrote:Also based on BW animated continuity basically being in the same universe as Marvel/Sunbow animated continuity, they may consider that as well.
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And therein likely lies the real reason that the Beast Wars figures are so faithfully curvy while the Prime figures have been boxified. They apparently just cannot fathom the idea of Transformers that look like
this inhabiting the same world as Transformers who look like
this, when they evidently have no problem with fathoming the idea of Transformers who look like
this inhabiting the same world as those who look like
this because of two cartoons that already
established it as such a long time ago, despite the fact that
these and
these have
significantly different aesthetics from each other, with
these even looking a LOT more like they could be related to
these rather than
these.
The fact that the Beast Wars characters exist in the same world as the G1 characters despite having so different an aesthetic of their own ought to be enough to reason to let the Prime characters keep their aesthetic intact. After all, comics seem to have no trouble depicting characters from all across the multiverse coexisting in the same universes, wherein their unique design aesthetics are all kept intact, whether it's instances of literal dimension-hopping (like in
Fun Pub's TransTech stories) or cases where original characters from one continuity are transplanted wholecloth into another (like in
IDW's 2005-2018 comics).
o.supreme wrote:Botcon or club exclusives are ok. But if that was a mainline Tarantulas, the fans would have went off the chain.
They gave us a mainline Optimus Primal like that back in Power of the Primes.
