Transformers: Beast Machines
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
1) I remember that Transmetals 2, like Blackarachnia, could(because of their exposure to the "Transmetal 2 Driver") grab things(telekinesis) and heal themselves. Do Blackarachnia and Cheetor still have these abilities?
Nope. Our characters heal themselves because they are Technorganic (See Nightscream's recuperative abilities on display in # 10). As far as TK goes... Nope again. They can do so many cool things already, that giving them paranormal abilities seems extraneous... and totally outside our story, thematically!2) Have to be honest - I didn't like Beast Wars when it first started and I didn't watch it until more references about Transformers:G1 was mentioned. Like Ravage showing up, Starscream, and the Maximals finding the Autobot Ark. Then I watched them all in repeats and I liked them. However, I love Beast Machines, because it's going back to basics, alot of action and good plots. I love the old material coming back, like the Key to Vector Sigma. But my question is, when did the names change from Autobot/Decepticon to Maximals/Predacons? The Cybertronian Wars went on for millennia with them using those names, so when did it change and why? I think I know alot about the Transformers, since I have been into from the very beginning. This is one gap I am not sure. Can you please clarify this for me.This is a gap that has yet to be explored... and will not be resolved within our 26-episode arc. However, a couple (not many, but a few) things from G1 will appear in Season Two. Keep watching...3) Pray tell how can a planets 'core' be organic, the compression of gravity could result in it becoming super heated. If Cybertron was the size of Earth it would collapse under it's own mass, thus it makes sense for it to be smaller. Organic catacombs maybe, but the true center being Organic seems a little unlikely. There's no way a natural planet could have a organic center, so the question is what is the organic 'Alive' center, well the only logical thing that fits is. "Primus". So if you take some of the old TV show as cannon, and say the Quintesson built Cybertron, then perhaps they built Cybertron on top of the Asteroid with Primus inside. He's the best explanation as to where Inorganic robots get souls from. Similarly you can say Primacron did not construct Unicron, he assisted in the rebuilding of a body from a pre-existing being. From Unicron's asteroid perhaps. Primus Provides the organic, Cybertron provides the Mechanical result: Techno-organic biomolecular fusion. "The Matrix wills it" : Optimus Primal.I like your theories a lot. Let's just say that that the term Organic Core is more poetry than truth... then entire core is not organic goo, but rather there are pockets of the stuff all over the place. We have such pockets on our planet, the oil deposits where we find fossil fuels (Do you realize that cars eat dinosaurs?!). So whereas the pockets of organic matter are not the same as our petrochemicals, the basic idea is the same. Where did this matter actually come from? That's an awfully good question!4) OK first off I LOVED EP 13!!!!!! The ideas and writing behind the characters were surprising and very deep. The ideology behind them were quite the surprise. How in gods green earth did waspinator get to Cybertron? Even if he could fly that far wouldn't he have to go significantly far into the future? How did Waspinator get to Cybertron I didn't understand that part very well? Well love the show thanks for the FAQ.Thanks for watching and liking! How did Waspinator actually get home? Well, he did have 65 million years to make the journey... I'm sure he thumbed a ride somewhere/somehow. Let's just say it's a story that still needs to be told! (And, no, we don't tell it in the next Season. But somewhere down the road we'd love to tell it!)5) You've shown us how the maximals got turned back into their original beast forms, how Nightscream got his organic form, how the old Transformers lost their spark and why Cybertron is deserted, how Megatron escaped from the Maximals before getting to Cybertron, you have filled in many gaps in the show's story line. There's just one thing that I would like to know: how did Megatron get to Cybertron after escaping from the Maximals' space ship, reach Cybertron before the Maximals did and take over the whole planet? Help!Easy... when he fell away from the ship, he dropped out of the timestream and into Cybertronian space while our guys where still moving forward in time. So, in essence, instead of landing seconds before our guys, he landed... months? years? Well, long enough to take over! And our guys landed too late to do anything to stop him. So now the question is, how do we stop what he is doing now?!6) Will we ever find out how Megatron got his scar over his right eye ?Which brings me to an interesting point. A fan asked me months ago if we were going to be doing any time-travel stories, and I answered No. Then, upon seeing #8, a fan said "Hey, Skir lied to us! This IS a time-travel story!" Well, just to put this matter to bed, we are NOT doing a time-travel story. Megs landed AFTER our guys originally left for the Beast Wars -- he did NOT affect the timestream! Thus, our guys are not racing to find a way to put things right (which we did as a story in The Mask, and as the story ran in Back To The Future II, which WERE time-travel stories). Our story is about what is happening here and now and how to deal with it here and now. It is therefore NOT a time-travel story. So there!
Hey, you try falling through time and space unscathed! I'm still wondering where Harrison Ford got that nifty scar on his chin -- but I suspect the truth is less intriguing than the mystery behind it. So, to answer your question, No, we won't be finding out. It's just there, and it's totally cool. For now...7) Will we ever hear Rattrap say were all going to die like he said he the Beast wars series.Thank you for making this show it is one of the best looking computer animated show on television and I think you should make a TV soundtrack of both of the series Thank you!!!!I'd love to get a soundtrack, too! As far as Rattrap's catchphrase... keep watching!8) Why are you making us wait until September to see season two? That's nine months!! That's a long time. Why was this season so short? Has FOX confirmed airdates/times for the second season of BM yet? If so, when will it start?Why am *I* making you wait?! I'd like to start showing Season Two right now! After all, they're ready to roll! I suspect that if enough people contacted Fox and Hasbro, they'd start airing them sooner! But then... we'd blow through Season Two by March! As things are, Season Two is set to air next September, far too far in the future for my tastes!9) Where is the Matrix of leadership? We are getting the idea that the MATRIX is a godly allspark where all transformers come and go.... but what about the physical matrix of leadership... the object we saw in the movie that is passed from leader to leader in order for that transformer to have a direct link w/ the MATRIX (allspark) so that they can be a more effective leader??The Matrix we are referring to in Beast Machines is a godly entity. The artifact you are referring to will not be figuring into our current series, storyline. Sorry!10) Okay, so according to the later episodes of G1, Unicron's head shouldn't be floating around after all. Doesn't mean big bad planetoid can't show up anyway. I'd love to see what Mainframe could do with a 3D Unicron.You may just get your wish... after a fashion!11) You were gracious enough to tell us 2 females were joining the cast next season. Can you hint to anything about them? Thanks a lot for the great series and the FAQ site!All I can tell you is that one of them will be a very good girl, and one of them will be a very bad girl, and that they won't be showing up early in Season Two, but a little later into it. Anyway, they both rule (that's an opinion, not a statement of fact/social status)!12) Please help bring back the original transforming sound. I miss it a lot...Hey, I just write'em!13) If the Maximals are part organic, wouldn't their organic parts bleed, age, and eventually die? Wouldn't that be a disadvantage in the war against Megatron?They'd age eventually... but the nano-technology in their systems would keep them healing, hale, and hardy for many, many years!14) A recurring background object has been the skull of a T-rex. Is this a sign of things to come? A rebirth of the Dinobots, perhaps?If only! No dinos in this arc, sadly! Maybe next season (three -- if there *is* one and they keep us aboard!)15) This is a statement rather than a question. I know some fans are upset with the new story-line behind cybertrons make-up. I think it's great!!! However, for those fans who know their Original Transformer episodes, from Episode #78 "The Dweller in the Depths" the Quintesson discuss experiments with Trans-organics(they were half beast-half machines).... Thus the Quintesson did indeed use organic materials and mechanics! Therefore it is possible that Cybertron may have originally been organic! Also in the episode, there are scenes were the background is rock not metal! By the way, I think Beast Machines rules! I have been a long time fan of Transformers and think you all are doing a terrific job!!!!!Well, thank you very much! Marty and I have taken a lot of heat from Transfan Fundamentalists (for good reasons as well as bad ones), so it's nice to hear from a longtime fan who is actually in favor of what we're doing and where we're going. Although, we still haven't told you where we're actually going yet... not ultimately, anyway, although a few clever fans have already figured it out! Which tells us we're laying down the tracks the right way...!That's all for now.
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