Should There Be Another Beast Series?

[GoktimusPrime]

The problem with robotic beast modes is that... well... they're not beast modes! A robotic beast fails as a robot in disguise. When Transmetals first came out a lot of fans (particularly in Japan) were against the idea because they saw them as being poor robots in disguise, the core essence of what they considered Transformers should be. Hence why Japan's beast TFs had organic beast modes (with the exception of Cyber Beasts which were cybernetic, still different from Transmetals which were robotic beasts). Transmetals did come out in Japan as Beast Wars Metals but wasn't terribly successful.

Robotic beast modes are as inherently flawed as disguise alt modes as organic vehicle modes! Transform!

I would like to see Beast Machines completely thrown out the window

I agree. I don't hate Beast Machines, but the problem with its ending is that it boxed Transformers continuity into a position that is extremely difficult (nigh impossible?) to continue from without disregarding or undoing Beast Machines canon.

[MV75]

Oh yea, everyone hated the g1 dinobots and tapes. Insta-fail.

The dinobots had liberties as they were created by robots based upon extinct animals.

The tapes, well, their robot modes were "beasts".

But your mind is stuck in beast wars era, so it doesn't matter.

[Firestorm]

Current Poll Standings
More Beasts: 9
No Beasts: 8
Beasts and Vehicles: 13
Dont Care: 4

seems the opinion on beast-formers is split fairly evenly amongst the fanbase,
but many people seem to think beasts and vehicle transformers should be able to co-exist, and some of you just plain dont care ...

as to what people have been talking about lately i think robotic Beast modes are kinda lame (Dont get me wrong i love my masterpiece grimlock) as Gok said they arent exactly "Robots in Disguise" i didnt mind the transmetals and transmetal 2s even if they wernt fully organic beast modes but the "In Disguise" thing also depends on where they are, prehistoric earth with no other inteligent life around (Vok Excluded) having beast modes that are a little less realistic is ok, but if beast wars were based on presant day earth then having a cyborg cheetah or a blue hoverboarding monkey wouldnt be a very good disguise, anyway i'm begining to ramble so i'll just sumerize now
Robotic Beast Modes = Bad for disguise (and kinda boring for design)
Organic Beast Modes = Good For disguise (Except for the ENOURMOUS Wasps and Spiders) (and offer interesting designs)
Techno-Organic Beast Modes = Bad for disguise (but pretty interesting designs)

if they did another beast series i say it should be Organic Beasts like the first season of beast wars

heres a question for everyone who says they want beast-formers and vehicle-formers to be in the same series, wouldnt the beast-formers be much smaller than the vehicle-formers? how would they be able to work together the beast-formers would just get squished, it would be like Armada but with beast minicons

[GoktimusPrime]

Oh yea, everyone hated the g1 dinobots and tapes. Insta-fail.

I never said that people "hated" robotic beast modes or that they were inherently "failures"; they often worked as assault modes -- I said that they didn't work as robots in disguise. In the G1 comics Optimus Prime initially expressly forbade the Dinobots from going on missions because their alt modes couldn't work as disguises and would scare people -- and even though it drove the Dinobots bonkers, Prime was right.

The dinobots had liberties as they were created by robots based upon extinct animals.

Yes but still not robots in disguise. I'm not saying the Dinobots' dino modes weren't cool - canon typically portrayed their dinobot modes as being an assault mode rather than a disguise mode. But in the spirit of being "robots in disguise" robotic beast modes just don't work.

The tapes, well, their robot modes were "beasts".

And their alt modes were cassettes, thus they do have disguise modes. Such as the numerous times the cassettes, Soundwave and Blaster were able to infiltrate places in their alt modes.

But your mind is stuck in beast wars era, so it doesn't matter.

G1 had organic beast alt modes too.