Quote Originally Posted by Adzma View Post
Well Beast Wars was my very first exposure to Transformers, I was only a little tacker at the time so naturally I'd be biased against it now. It is, and I believe will always be, the best Transformers show of all time. As I kid I loved it, and I can actually remember crying when Dinobot died. Bah go on, poke fun at me! I know you all wept when Prime died 10 years earlier. I still remember the joy when I opened up an Optimus Primal, which I still have today, on my birthday and the same feeling with my Optimal Optimus at Christmas a couple of years later. Sadly both are in need of repairs now due to love and affection. But watching it again in 2006 when MadMan released the DVDs I found I could appreciate it even more now than I did as a kid. I tried to like Animated, but I just found it dull and too childish but hey, Hasbro have a market to keep and they're a business. I do wish there was a direct sequel to Beast Machines, and hopefully one that retconns the show entirely anyway, but it wouldn't be economically viable for Hasbro to do it, so they won't.
It would be possible to have a retconed series that takes place right after Beast Wars while not necesarily having a need to go back to being exclusively composed of Beast modes. At the end of BW, they went back to Cybertron, a Cybertron that had earth as a big influence in its culture and where the population is mostly composed of vehicle modes rather than Beast modes. We must also assume that Earth is still around during that post G1 era so they could always do an Earth based series within the BW timeline without having to be prehistoric. Yeah it it would need to be 'futuristic' but so is Armada, Energon and Cybertron.