Why yes that would be nice, what with a blue head and all, maybe they didn't because the actual toy is different, not sure what the japanese take was with the little throttle bots fiction wise
BW2 was much like super god masterforce for me, quite japanese-y, maybe too much for my taste, mind you I had a poorly dubbed copy so I enjoyed that chore even less
As for the on going discussion with gotimusprime and verno about what optimus primal is...
I honestly think BOTH of you are correct.
They are meant to be the same character, in the same universe, however takara in japan wrote beast wars differently, remember airazor was a man and were writing on the fly until tigertron and airazor kissed and ruined their little bromance they had going on.
But this would also mean g1 convoy and g1 optimus prime are also different characters, we know the japanese headmasters were VERY different to what we westerners got.
Which would be a good thing too, didn't like what the japanese did to their g1 arcee but we'd be going further down the track if we discussed that