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[Verno]

Possibly the bottom of Africa with Madagascar off the coast

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Actually I don't know where that is.

[Hursticon]

*snip*

That shows the top left hand corner of Africa through to Egypt and the Middle East

*snip*

Possibly the bottom of Africa with Madagascar off the coast

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Actually I don't know where that is.

Beautiful!
Cheers Verno, that's exactly what I needed - I believe your Geography is right with both pics.

Blows my Ice-Age theory into outer space to say the least!

[LordCyrusOmega]

I was going to say it could have been before the continents seperated but those shots blow that up.
I'm still going to think thats how they got around so quickly though

[Verno]

Maybe we'll just chalk the quick movement up to good story telling

Though if you read some of the toy bio's, some 'bots are pretty light on their feet. And Megs quote about TM2 Cheetor 'someone is out for a little midnight stroll... at Mach 2'.

I'm not sure that second image is southern Africa and Madagascar. There appears to be another large land mass out in the water in what should be the empty Indian Ocean

[Hursticon]

I'm not sure that second image is southern Africa and Madagascar. There appears to be another large land mass out in the water in what should be the empty Indian Ocean

That could be India, but I doubt that CG Globe model would be actually accurate to what the world looked like 70,000 years ago anyway.

[LordCyrusOmega]

O don't know wat the image is. And if you read my tag you'll understand why I'm ignoring I ever read it

Why do the BW characters have names based on their alt modes. What were there names before? Seems a bit conveniant

[GoktimusPrime]

Why do the BW characters have names based on their alt modes. What were there names before? Seems a bit conveniant

Yeah but when you think about it, names like "Hound," "Bumblebee" and "Jazz" make no sense for robots living on an alien world which has no animals even closely resembling dogs or bees... and some four million years before the advent of jazz music. Unless the Cybertronians invented their own kind of jazz and actually called it 'jazz,' which is somewhat unlikely.

But anyway, in pre-Earth Beast Wars, a lot of Maximals who have names that describe their beast modes are actually never referred to by their names on Cybertron, meaning that it's possible that they didn't get their BW names until after contact with Earth (and acquisition of their beast modes). This would also coincide with the first episode of BW where the Beast Wars Transformers, especially the Maximals, introduce themselves to each other after awakening from the R-chambers with their new beast modes ("Call me Cheetor/Rattrap/Rhinox" etc). I believe Optimus Primal was called Optimus Primal on Cybertron, but that's okay because it doesn't describe his beast mode. Megatron originally had a different name until around the time of the theft of the golden disk when he learnt about G1 Megatron and decided to name himself after the legendary Decepticon leader.

But yeah, quite a few characters are only referred to by their designation codes or role descriptors rather than names, e.g. Tigatron was "Unit 2" (as part of the Maximal Command Security Force) and Airazor was "Chromia 10 Pilot." Although "Airazor" would have worked for her too considering that her Cybertronian alt mode was a jet - but of course, both Tigatron and Airazor completely lost their memories so... yeah.

Another interesting thing with Beast Wars that G1 didn't do is that their Cybertronian robot modes lack their Earthen alt mode kibble. In G1 you have characters like Bumblebee walking around with Volkswagen Beetle kibble millions of years before he would ever transform into one. In "More Than Meets The Eye Part 1" it's even more ridiculous because he would have VW kibble but transform into that hovercar! In Beast Wars their pre-Earth robot forms are stripped of their beast mode kibble and shrouded in darkness to obscure their images (and also to save money ).

Look at:
+ Beast Wars ep 1, the opening scene when the Axalon and Darksyde are fighting above Earth before crashing -- everyone's shrouded in darkness. We also clearly see Megatron in his pre-Earth robot form (here!)
+ In a flashback we see Rampage (aka Protoform X) on Cybertron (see here) -- shrouded in stark darkness.
+ When Depth Charge arrives we see him piloting a Starhopper and his Cybertronian robot mode is stripped of beast mode kibble.
+ Every member of the Tripredacus Council appear in their Cybertronian forms in the cartoon, and thus look nothing like their toys.
+ Both the Maximals and Predacons in Beast Wars II are drawn with pre-Gaea Cybertronian robot forms and the Preds actually use them for quite some time before they acquire Gaea alt modes. e.g. Lio Convoy, Apache, BB, Starscream, Scuba etc etc.

[LordCyrusOmega]

I completely forfot about that Gok, you're right. They renamed themselves after aquiring their beast forms.
G1 did have interesting robot modes pre-earth, never made a whole lot of sense.