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Re)start a vintage Beast Wars collection with this Transformers: Vintage Beast Wars Maximal Wolfang figure!
Convoy comes with three different gorilla faces: neutral; smiling and angry, and four different robot mode faces: open-mouthed; close-mouthed; smirking and original style mouthless faceplate. The first year of the line was a shocker to fans, both for its drastic aesthetic change from what came before, and its technical/design changes that gave the toys far more play value.If it must be moved by hand, turning the forearm in the same direction as the motor allow the larger gears to safely ratchet to minimize damage.
This was ultimately considered too difficult to animate, and the concept was dropped, Primal's "Prime Jets" being a way to prevent re-writing the flight-related parts of the scripts. He features over 30 points of articulation and extensive paint operations in an attempt at show-accuracy. On the sides of the trailer is a humorous sticker depicting Laser Optimus Prime using a flamethrower to burn down a forest, with the words "Optimus Prime Octane" over the image. In robot mode, like Hero Optimus Prime, the bottom of the truck became his familiar windowed chest based upon the original Optimus Prime toy.As mentioned below, this two-pack saw a variant release using the Gold Convoy and Silver Megatron toys in their place. Finally, the Throne of the Primes, while a cardboard insert, features artwork of the faces of the eight other competitors in the survey— Arcee, Ultra Magnus, Hound, Shockwave, Megatron, Star Saber, Thunderwing, and Unknown Evil.
The toys were uniformly on par with contemporary Beast Wars design, as no pre-Beast Wars designs were used. His smaller robot form transforms into a futuristic cargo ship; according to Hasbro at Toy Fair 2018, the inner robot is meant to represent his Cybertronian form. Like all Kingdom Voyager figures, Optimus Primal comes with a Golden Disk card that " reveals a possible destiny of a key character", with each character having three possible destiny variants. In Europe, the Beast Wars-branded MicroVerse playsets (see below) were released solely as Beast Wars/Biocombat (English/Spanish/Italian packaging) or Beast Wars/Ani Mutants (French/Dutch/German packaging) products.
Beast Wars characters took on the appearance of fully-organic creatures, which also affected their robot-mode looks: while there were "metal" parts, the designs were much more rounded and organic in shape if not texture, the aesthetic inspired by Japanese series Guyver. When a back section of the cannon module is pulled, the eyes and shoulder-mounted missile launchers lit up and the launchers fired. Transmetal Optimal Optimus is the first toy in the Super size class, featuring electronics and four transformations: robot, ape, jet, and armored transport. According to the sticker, this limited figure is meant to celebrate the "20,000,000 Unit Breakthrough Commemoration"—apparently commemorating 20 million units of Beast Wars toys sold. This release is a retool of the original 1996 Ultra toy, with new beast and robot heads, plus a new robot chest piece sculpted to match the television series's portrayal.
The color scheme was also altered to be show-accurate, changing the black to dark gray, much of the light gray to medium gray with hints of bronze, primary red to crimson, and blue to a more dull steel blue. Part of the Legend Commander Collection sold at Transformers Expo, Convoy (Beast Wars) is a redeco of Robotmasters Beast Convoy.Released as part of the fifth wave of the e-HOBBY exclusive Transformers Character Card series, this pair of holographic trading cards depict super-deformed art of "Convobat" and "Megaligator" (distinct from the separate characters Convobat and Megalligator) in their Wave 1 Basic Class bodies along with character profiles and tech specs. A tiny plastic Convoy figurine in his gorilla body and molded onto an irregularly-shaped stand was released by Kabaya. The early toy-based fictions —the mini-comic from the Optimus/Megatron 2-pack and the early cardback bios— placed the Beast Wars on modern-day Earth, and were a bit cagey as to whether the faction leaders were the old bots rebuilt. The missiles for the Takara version are thinner and simpler than the original Hasbro version, and would be used in all subsequent releases of the sculpt.
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