They could easily justify the BW characters not needing to scale to the original animal size though. There was no reason for them to hide their forms as at the time the planet was only inhabited by other animals and cavemen, which we only saw briefly. It's quite obvious that scale wasn't an issue in the original show, unless Rattrap scanned a R.O.U.S.Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
Another thing with a photorealistic Beast Wars movie is scale. Here are some size comparisons between different animals compared to a human:
human vs gorilla (Optimus Primal)
human vs cheetah (Cheetor)
human vs velociraptor (Dinobot)
human vs wasp (Waspinator)
human and tarantula (Tarantulas)
human vs pteranodon (Terrorsaur)
human vs tyrannosaurus rex (Megatron)
etc.
Imagine all of these animals - in realistic 1:1 scale - fighting each other. And their robot modes would be scaled to the beast modes, so .....
Long story short, if there's nothing to hide from, no need for realistic sized animal modes.
I also find it odd that the Japanese didn't like Transmetals. Personally I find organic beast modes extremely boring, but when I suddenly had myself a purple mech gorilla? - Hells yeah! Maybe people in Japan are just too spoiled for their robot action.
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