Beast Wars Pictures Archive: TV Magazine - 1999
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• Other Visits 1: The Metalhunter forms in this still from the show, but the Destrons and Cybertrons are drawn into the scene cel-style to make for a more dramatic picture.
• Other Visits 2: Cel-drawn struggle between Metals Convoy and Metals Megatron.
• Recolored Leaders: As seen in November's Comics Bon-Bon, but better pics of the special recolors.
• Digimon (Greymon?): Another transforming Digimon toy. Judging from a few commercials I've seen, these will probably be coming to the U.S. soon.

• N64 Metals Game: A screenshot from the BW Metals game released for the N64 in Japan. As the game is reported to have "guest appearances" by BWII and BWNeo characters, it's unlikely to be released here.
• Toys with Candy: Some statuettes of various Transmetals and a Fuzor. Note that TM Rhinox and TM Airazor are present, despite not being in the show.
• Microman Combiners: Two Microman combiners and one Acroyer combiner. Each splits into several vehicles, weapons or drones, and a Microman/Acroyear 8cm figure can ride in the chest, wearing the combiner as a powersuit.

• Hyperconvoy: The leader of the Convoy Council, Hyperconvoy is depicted on one of the blue and red pages of the bound-in booklet, so these aren't quite his proper colors.
• Cybertron Quarters: Small pictures of where each of the Cybertrons stay aboard Gung Ho. Most of them make themselves at home, but not Big Convoy. #44 is Mach Kick's western-themed room, with crossed rifles over the rough-hewn wooden bed.
• (Picture Not Shown): Worth noting, Lioconvoy and Big Convoy are shown shaking hands and joining forces. On the same page, Galvatron (with Unicron's spark inside him) faces down Magmatron as the Cybertrons watch from hiding. I didn't scan this because there's plenty of pictures of all characters involved, and the composition of the specific images aren't really that mindblowing.
• UNICRON! 'Nuff said.
• Toys With Candy: Another set of painted figurines for BW Neo.
• Digimon Toys: These two transform kinda niftily into other forms. I especially like how the angel guy's wings are made from the shell of his unevolved form.
• DinoZone Toys: In robot mode are the three new characters. Dunno their names yet, or which side they're on, but they are a Kentrosaur (like a Stegosaur, but with spines), a Pachycephalosaur and an ancient sea turtle. UPDATE: Jarrod Trout tells me that the names are Shieldsaurus (turtle), Swordsaurus (Pachy) and Drillsaurus (Kentro). Why these names? Because they also turn into weapons for DinoTyranno and DinoBrachio. A shield, a sword and a drill, natch. Giganodragon also gets a buddy called Nightwing who turns into some winged creature Jarrod couldn't ID (possibly a Quetzalcoatlus). Pics are in the August issue of Hobby Japan.
• DinoZone CG: Artist's renderings of the beast modes of the three new toys.

• Drancron in beast mode: Apparently they've decided this Skyshadow recolor is bipedal in the cartoon.
• Big Convoy Exclusive: A black, gold and silver recolor being used in a giveaway, limited quantities as always. As I don't read Japanese, I can't tell you how to enter the drawing. Note that he's not quite transformed correctly (shoulders sagging). It will also be available at TRU in Japan, along with a recolored Galvatron sold as Unicron.

• Trading Cards: Left column: Hydrar, Hardhead and Crazybolt. Middle column: Bump, Sharpedge and Archadis. Right column: Mach Kick, Rockcrusher and Randy.
• Killerpunch: A clearer picture of Killerpunch launching his head shows that he has a SPARE HEAD underneath! Not only that, but his tail is not a gun, it's a shield-axe sort of weapon.
• More Killerpunch: As this view shows, not only does the "spare head" give KP a usable right hand, but his beast head can be stored on his back and out of the way. Between this, the loss of the tailgun missiles and the new shape of the tail weapon, Killerpunch solves most of the "stuff in the way" problems of his cousin Guiledart.

• Archadis vs. Mach Kick: I scanned this picture of the two new toys because it's the first I've seen where it's clear that Mach Kick's tail isn't a solid molded piece.
• Toys With Candy: Kabaya toy kits of Big Convoy and Magmatron. There's others in the set, but they were shown on monochrome pages, and weren't really worth the bother of scanning.
• Bird Launcher: Another bit of merchandising which will probably show up in the cartoon somewhere, this launcher fires a bird or something like a bird as a glider. NOTE: I've been informed (by BW Ratbat) that Break has already used the gun in the anime. As I was kinda suspecting, it's used like the Speed Racer bird, as a messenger.

• Wave 2 toys: Top row is Mach Kick (horse) and Archadis. Second row is Sharpedge (saw shark) and Hardhead. Third row is Bump (Armadillo speedbump and physicist) and Bazooka. Three new toys, two remolds, one recolor. It's hard to say for sure, but I think Mach Kick's tail is made from hair, not a solid molded piece.
• More Wave 2: Some different views of Hardhead, Mach Kick and Archadis in robot modes. Note that Hardhead's got a radically different color scheme here. It might be a photography quirk, or this might be a case of the color scheme differing between prototype and final model...don't know if this one's final or proto, though. UPDATE: Neither. There's a THIRD color scheme out there which seems to be the final one, with a mostly dark blue body and light teal claws and chest. There's also a new gimmick that pops up a part of his head when you drop his jaw.
• Stampee: One of the entries in "weird power," Sling's trap with its favorite target. Stampy just can't catch a break, can he?

• Big Convoy Toy: From mammoth to attack mode to robot.
• Big Convoy Attacks: Various attacks the big guy can use. Leg missiles, batons, sonic tusks.
• Magmatron Toy: "Orgy Mode" at the top, then Pteradactyl, Allosaur (you can tell because his foreclaws have three digits and aren't pathetically puny), Elasmosaur (from the realllly long neck) and finally the robot mode.
• Magmatron Attacks: Some of Magmatron's favorite attacks, including the Elasmosaur head bite and tail sword.
• Rockbuster to the Rescue: Renamed (and possibly a little recolored) Razorclaw saves Big Convoy from Magmatron.
• Heinrad Robot Mode: Decent shot of the toy in robot mode.
• Color Gameboy BW: Halfway decent screenshots of the fighter game for the Color Gameboy. I hear it's a pretty good fighter game as the Gameboy goes.
• The Winners!: Winners of a contest in TV Magazine to create new characters for BW Neo. Archadis and Mach Kick were chosen to become toys, and I also scanned a design which looks a LOT like the upcoming Bazooka. I do think the creator of Archadis needs to date more, however. The ol' claw-brassiere trick. Also, here's some black & white outlines of Archadis and Mach Kick next to the winning drawings. And yes, I'm guessing there were age classes or random winners. Update: Doug Dlin tells me that the names given by the kids were not used for the toys. So Takara kept naming rights and exact appearance, probably simplifying things legally.

• VS sets - I magnified the images from the back of the issue that showed the "VS" sets of the new toys, in robot and beast modes. The third modes aren't shown in this issue.
  • VS29: Longrack and Guiledart: Longrack seems to be more of Mega size, and is the second in command of the Cybertrons as far as I can tell. The third modes of the other Cybertrons are weapons for him to use, and his third mode is a sort of cannon emplacement. Guiledart has a camoflage mode in which he, er, plays EXTREMELY dead. Gnawed corpse mode.
  • VS30: Corahda and Sabreback: Corahda the cobra has a rather long lash arm. Sabreback's camoflage mode is that of a flower. Seriously.
  • VS31: Stampy and Sling: Stampy the rabbit uses his ears as swords. Sling the dimetrodon can turn into a sort of beartrap mutation of the venus flytrap flower as his camoflage mode.
  • VS32: Break and Dead End: Break the penguin seems to be a semi-recycling of the Stunticon Breakdown, especially since he's paired with the ammonite Dead End. Dead End doesn't seem to have a camoflage mode.
  • VS33: Rockbuster and Hydrar: Simply repackagings of the video-pack Razorclaw and Lazorbeak. No differences discernable from these pictures, although it's possible tiny details were added.
  • VS34: Randy and Crazybolt: Recolors of original assortment Regular Beasts Razorback and Iguanus.
• Trading Cards: This installment finishes out the BWII set and starts the BW Neo set. They're backed, as always, with blue&white techspec cards and drawings of the beast modes. I tried scanning them, but they looked pretty cruddy as scans. Oddly, the techspecs have 7 stats, not the usual 8.
  • Batch 1: Numbers start in upper right, arranged in columns. 45: Lioconvoy Flash, 46: Burning Convoy, 47: Majin Zarak, 48: Dirgegun, 49: Thrustol, 1: Cybertron Battleship "Gung-Ho", 2: Big Convoy, 3: Longrack, 4: Corahda.
  • Batch 2: 5: Stampy, 6: Break (with beast kibble vastly "Romitized"), 7: Heinrad, 8: Magmatron, 9: Guiledart, 10: Sabreback, 11: Dead End, 12: Sling, 13: Destron Carrier "Dinosaur" (or Dynasoar, or other permutations to play on words)
• Heinrad: The time-controlling Cybertron, shown also in his beast mode and using his time control power. Note the warped clockfaces.
• Sling: Another view of the toy to give a better idea of how his fin looks when closed. It also shows his robot mode to be a bit iffy.
• Deadly Flowers: Cel-style pictures of Sling's and Sabreback's flower-like weapons.

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• Toys with Candy - Grainy little picture, hopefully I'll find better later on. Transforming (take apart and put back together) candybox toys of Kid, Diver, Scuba, BigMos, Tonbotto and Mantis.
• Recolors! - Recolors of the original BWII Cybertron crew, in seemingly random colors, just to get another set of toys out while BW Neo is warming up, I guess. Lioconvoy in Germany! Pastel Scuba! Whee.
• BW Neo Cybertrons (animated) - Those BW Neo toys that aren't remolds will have Sparks like Transmetal II toys. Top row, Deluxe Break (Penguin) and Basic Corahda (Cobra). Middle rank, Heinlad (Raccoon with watch in his stomach) and Ultra Big Convoy (Mammoth). Bottom level, Deluxe (Mega?) Longrack (Giraffe) and Basic Stampy (Rabbit). Not pictured are Basic Rockbuster (Video pack Razorclaw), Basic Randy (Razorback, slight recoloring). Thanks to Greg Guillory for the size information on these and the Destrons. Oh, and the Cybertrons will have red sparks, not green, according to Greg's information.
• BW Neo Cybertrons (mostly CGI) - CGI art presumably from the boxes. Big Convoy is in animated form, possibly because his packaging wasn't ready in time. Around him, clockwise from upper left, are Heinlad, Corahda, Break, Longrack and Stampy.
• BW Neo Destrons (animated) - Top down, they're Deluxe Dead End (Ammonite), Deluxe (Mega?) Guiledart (Triceratops), Ultra Combiner Magmatron (Allosaur, Plesiosaur and Pterodactyl) and what I'm pretty sure is Basic Crazybolt (Iguanus, possibly with removable frill). Not shown are Deluxe (Mega?) Sabreback (Stegosaur), Basic Sling (Dimetrodon) and Basic Hydrar (Lazorbeak, same colors). UPDATE: Nope, it's Sling, not Crazybolt. The Dimetrodon's back fin opens up into the shield.
• BW Neo Destrons (mostly CGI) - Magmatron cel-style for same reasons Big Convoy is. Counter clockwise from upper right, Guiledart, Dead End, Sling and Sabreback.

• Lioconvoy and Magnaboss Card - This trading card is a good example of the way Joy Kindergarten is pitched to younger children. The next two pictures are, perhaps, bad examples.
• Gaea Force Summoned! - Lioconvoy and Liojunior bring forth the essence of Gaea from their Matrices, manifesting as a lion formed from green energy. The GaeaLio is also shown in TV Magazine, but in a harder to scan picture (he's on a crease).
• Galvatron's Final Fate! - This may be considered a "spoiler" for BW II. Do not view this picture unless you want to see how the fight between GaeaLio and Galvatron ends up. In the lower left corner are small pictures of Magmatron and Big Convoy, basically small versions of the ones centering the CGI scans above.

• Energized Convoys - Burning Convoy and Flash Lioconvoy, all powered up and ready to kick Majin Zarak's hinder...once they find exactly where on his hulking body the hinder is, that is.
• Something Wicked - I have no idea what this thing is, but it's from the movie and probably evil. This scan is from the pop-up diorama which comes with this month's issue.
• Dinozone Stuff - There was a really nifty two-page spread of the toys comparing sizes, but it was too big to fit all at once on the scanner. Maybe later I'll play puzzle pieces and try to scan it in parts.
  • Dinozone Group 1 - Up top are Dinobrachio and Dinoptera in robot modes in CGI, below is Dinotyranno, the leader. Here's a closeup of his techspecs, in case anyone wants to read them. Click here for Doug Dlin's translation, which also serves as a key to the three-number stat bars.
  • Dinozone Group 2 - Top rank is Dinosabre and Dinostego. Bottom are Dinotricera and Dinomammoth. Dinosabre is one of the small toys, yet has the second best stats. Hmmm.