Beast Machines: Your Best and Worst

[Sky Shadow]

The worst are well and truly Che and Mechatron. Of the transforming toys, the worst is Nightscream - an awful toy at a ridiculous scale.

Favourite: Blastcharge.

Wow, really - that's intriguing. I think Blastcharge is such an odd angular and blocky design that he feels like another company's very first attempt at a transforming toy. I find his design interesting and unique, but he felt really out of place as a 2000ish Beast Machines toy, particularly in robot mode compared to the sleekness of his fellow toys. His Beast Machines colours didn't suit my aesthetics either, although I really liked the purple and black look of the 2005 Universe recolour.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

BM Blackarachnia rocks my world. I only have the Universe version but the mold is brilliant.

[GoktimusPrime]

Blackarachnia = win
Supreme Cheetor = supreme fail

[liegeprime]

I like

Blackarachnia, Bike Drone, Blast punch Prime- the molds are great, especially the drone!! Shame it was rather hard to get them when I was in Phils as I was penniless during these times or I wouldve gone army building on these. As it stands everytime these go on sale even in ebay, they get bought quick.

Meh for me

Supreme Cheetor - which is precisely why I DONT OWN the toy. Pointless use of plastic. Another one of Hasbro's drunken WTF are they thinking moment...I bet if they issue out a memo within the Hasbro division that whoever is responsible for shelfwarming WTF toys to get 20 lashes punishment for such utter failure products then we'd see improvements somehow....

[GoktimusPrime]

The thing that makes Supreme Cheetor worse than other horrible toys like Nightscream, Rattrap and Silverbolt, is the ridiculously expensive RRP on that toy. Also the fact that there was a cheaper Mega version available at the time, and for those who waited, an even cheaper Deluxe version -- and IMO Deluxe Nightslash Cheetor is the best BM Cheetor toy made during the BM line anyway. The more expensive the BM Cheetor toy, the worse it gets. And getting the tall, lanky and top-heavy Supreme Cheetor toy to stand in robot mode is just a massive pain in the diodes. The only downsides with Nightslash Cheetor is that his 'nightslash' colours don't match the cartoon (although they are nice colours in their own right), and the toy was never available in Australia. But we still had the local option of Mega Cheetor (which came out _before_ Supreme Cheetor no less).

Nightscream isn't inherently a horrific design. He would've been a lot better if he'd been a Deluxe. The stupid thing was that they unnecessarily made him an Ultra (well, the necessity was for the lame electronic gimmick). But the toy itself isn't _that_ bad, unlike Supreme Cheetor who basically just stands up to transform to robot mode. (-_-) Rattrap suffers from a poorly designed robot mode. I don't like how the head keeps looking down - and there's no real reason why the visor couldn't swing down further to cover the face like in the show. And I seldomly ever complain about show likeness, but this toy came out _after_ the cartoon aired. I do like how Rattrap has proper legs though, which can become wheels for people who prefer show likeness (much like Blackarachnia whose feet can be pointed like in the cartoon or stand on proper feet for better balance). Silverbolt is just a dismal failure of a toy, but at least he's a cheap Basic. But also, there's not much choice for BM fans if they want toys of Nightscream, Rattrap and Silverbolt... they can kinda 'afford' to be crap because there isn't much 'competition'... but Cheetor on the other hand... as if people wouldn't just opt for the cheaper Mega

Supreme Cheetor was just a massively stupid decision. Oh look, here's an oversized and overpriced version of the Mega toy that came before it (and that most of us BM fans already bought anyway). Little wonder this toy shelf warmed for years lingering on shelves... especially at Toys R Us who just _refused_ to discount this toy!

[SuspectimusPrime]

Post-BW Season 2 Cheetors..

Not being able to follow the entire Beast Wars saga until about 4-5 years ago due to my tuition days during high school, and only having watched Beast Wars Seasons 1-2 until then, I walked into my local Toys R Us to find BM Supreme Cheetor, BM Mega Cheetor, BW Transmetals 2 Nightslash Cheetor, and BW Transmetals Cheetor... and thought.... W T Fudge AM I SUPPOSED TO BUY?!.

Did enjoy all of the Canadian Beast Wars Saga after finally finding a dying complete torrent with like 1 seeder a few years back.

[GoktimusPrime]

BW Transmetals 2 Nightslash Cheetor

Transmetal 2 Cheetor and Nightslash Cheetor are entirely different toys. And I doubt you would've seen Nightslash Cheetor in stores here as the entire Battle For The Spark line was never released in Australia, which meant we missed the best of the Beast Machines toy line. It's a common fan theory that it may have been because retailers here weren't interested in ordering more stock of Beast Machines Transformers considering how badly they shelf-warmed here, so I guess Hasbro Australia didn't think it was worth bringing here if retailers here were unlikely to order them.


Fan meet in Melbourne CBD's Myer, 2001 -- pegs and shelves were adorned with peg and shelfwarming Beast Machines stock -- I was actually holding a Blast Punch Optimus Primal in my hand in that shot, but it can't be seen since I'm hiding up the back.