[Poison Shadow]

So, at least one of my Big Lots seems to have that awesome 3.75" "action force" stuff or whatever they call it. I don't think I've seen any since last Christmas. If I was a bigger Joe collector, I'd buy a few of those vehicles for sure. The playset I bought last year for a diorama is great.


And yeah, Megatron was still the Transmetal II dragon. He couldn't purge his system of that form because it was too powerful, which he hated, because once he got back to Cybertron he saw all organic lifeforms as disgusting and wanted to wipe them all out. He had a suit built that would restrain his transformation, which gave him a pretty sweet Hannibal Lectre-like facemask. He had some scientists working to rid him of that DNA, but they were never able to.

The biggest problem with Beast Machines is that, when production began with all-new writers from those that had written Beast Wars, Hasbro explicitly told them NOT to watch the previous series or familiarize themselves with it in any way. I believe one of the co-creators said that he eventually found an episode guide for BW with one-line synopses of each show just because he didn't feel right about doing a sequel totally blind. That could potentially be where Rhinox's betrayal came from, because remember, he turned Predacon for one episode during BW.