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The first Beast Wars toy I ever got was Drill Bit at a Christmas gift exchange at school but it was maybe another year before I actually started watching the show. It would air at 6:30 every morning so I would race to get ready for school just so I could eat breakfast and watch BW in piece. When I finally started getting BW figures, a lot of the Season 1 toys were the Fox Kids repaints so my Cheetor has purple spots instead of black. Optimal Optimus was my favorite figure though. I was incredibly proud of being able to master his 4 mode transformation. I still have him but I was bummed to find out a couple of years ago that he has some known breakage issues so I've left him in storage for a while now.

Hasbro will be redoing Optimus Primal in the upcoming Power of the Primes line. He'll be a leader class figure so his combined mode will be Optimal Optimus but his little bot that splits off will be Season 1 Primal. Here are some slides from Hascon and you'll need to scroll down to see Primal:
https://www.seibertron.com/transform...-hascon/39484/

HasTak have started doing Masterpiece Beast Wars figures and I've happily added Optimus and Cheetor to my collection. Their beast modes aren't as seamless at the G1 characters but they're both really awesome. Dinobot will be released next summer and I think Megatron has been hinted.