Quote Originally Posted by lancalot View Post
We all change from time to time...we get different hair style , different clothes , so we also get different hobbies and interest ....
Not all of us. Some of us have never lost interest in Transformers.

Quote Originally Posted by Zommael View Post
For a lot of fans Beast Hunters is kiddy and uninteresting, and I do respect that. But for me DOTM and Prime were just boring, nothing I hadn't seen before, so Beast Hunters - and the revived Generations line - has got me back into collecting. Yes, they're obviously kid-focused but I can't help but feel that makes them fun, as opposed to constant realistic vehicles which are all much of a muchness. The accusation that the transformation is always the same is often layered at the beasts, but if I see another car where the hood becomes the chest and the rear wheels the feet...
Some vehicles have mundane transformations as do beasts. Both types of alt modes provide different design challenges. With vehicles, you're trying to transform solid looking vehicles into a humanoid shaped robot; so challenges lie in incorporating alt mode parts into the robot mode with minimal "panelforming." With beast modes you have the task of transforming an organic looking quadraped into a robotic biped. In recent times, designers just use robotic beast modes which isn't nearly as challenging (or interesting) as what we had in Beast Wars where they had to design/engineer organic looking beast modes that transform into mechanical looking robot modes. Naturally the robot modes would have a partially organic look because of the beast mode parts attached to the robot (just as a car Transformer would be covered in car parts). For the most part HasTak did an astounding job, and it's something that we just don't see with TF Prime (mind you their vehicle modes are also fantasy-based too... and wth do Megatron and Shockwave transform into?!? #rhetorical). The fun thing about realistic alt modes is that it helps to create that "robots in disguise" element. I look at Predaking and think, okay... that's a cool monster, but I ain't gonna see it IRL anytime soon. I look at something like K-9 (transforms into an Alsatian/German Shepherd dog; stupid name, I know ) and think gee, I could easily see that animal walking down the road and it could be a robot in disguise!

The thing w/ animal/creature modes though is the temptation for designers to just use the forelegs as arms and the hind legs as legs in robot mode. The typical "standing quadraped" transformation, which is the sort of overused typical transformation type for quadrapeds. TM2 and BM Cheetor are notorious examples of this somewhat underwhelming type of transformation, and I believe Ultimate Predaking is the same (from what I've seen and read; I've yet to see this toy for myself loose IRL). But that's one thing I quite like about Voyager Predaking; the designers intentionally avoided doing just that. Well okay, the front legs do become the arms, but the hind legs actually tuck away into the robot legs and become concealed, and the robot legs themselves are formed from the hind section of the creature's body! I really wasn't expecting that when I first got the toy and I was quite pleasantly surprised by it.