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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

Well Beast Machines took all of the well developed characters from Beast Wars who didn't die and completely changed them. Rhinox got killed and turned into a bad guy somewhere off-screen, Rattrap became a cowardly, selfish, sometimes traitor instead of a reluctant but loyal and good spy, Cheetor was suddenly bumped into leader position (sound familiar with the yellow kid friendly character becoming leader in the sequel show), I recall Optimus Primal being pretty flat and plain hippie leader who died at the end, and they made Silverbolt into a pink peacock. Bad times.

From what I saw of Wheeljack it seemed more like they wanted him to be Springer. Just like in that crappy Age of Extinction movie it seemed very much like Drift was just supposed to be Springer, I mean c'mon a robot who turns into a car and a helicopter who mainly uses a sword to fight.

That sounds awful. I'm gonna guess and say Megatron wasn't a sick dragon in Beast Machines? I still have that toy and it's still awesome.

I haven't seen AoE yet even though the DVD is sitting at my grandparents house. I wasn't aware of Drift can turn into helicopter. I could see how Wheeljack can be seen as a Springer substitute but he doesn't have a helicopter mode. Then again he does fly a ship...hmmm. I don't understand why they won't just use Springer. I loved him in the animated movie when I was a kid.