Revisiting BEAST WARS

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Buzzsaw's says something or other about BW Buzzsaw, who he's a homage to. It's written sort of in-universe that, if read one way, implies there's a Beast Wars that happened in the past of AEC. The intended reading is pretty obviously that CyBuzzsaw is an homage to BW Buzzsaw.
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Dominic wrote:Screw "the horse". Official sources kept Predacon away from that fan-fic.

I need to dig out the cards.

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Doesn't tfu.info have copies of all the character biographies? It might be worth looking at that site.
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Just checked TFU, the wiki and DVD's page. Nothing. (DVD talks about the set in general terms, but not specific cards.)


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Bigbot.com still has all of the cyber key data, for what it's worth. Though out of all of them with BW references, the only one is actually written to be in-universe is Sky Shadow. The rest just talk about how the toy is a homage to a Beast Wars character.
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For a second, I thought that Sparky had found an online archive of the cards....after I managed to dig mine out.


Hookay, I have Airrazor and Rhinox. (I read either Cheetor's or Terrorsaur's, whichever was actually published, years ago. But, I forget the content.)

Airrazor's mentions her being "reborn in to the Armada Universe", a possible reference to universe hoping (and/or "Universe") or simply a badly written card blending context with marketing jargon. I actually misremembered this one a bit, remembering that it implied previous history but not the details.

Rhinox's is a bit more straightforward, noting that he is a professional soldier who was brought out of stasis to fight Unicron. Besides implying some really creative population management on Cybertron, this clearly shows he had a previous history. Again, I misremembered/misread that as implying a BW.

Both cards mention that they are in for "an uncertain future", a possible reference to Furman's Four Horsemen wank-fest. (The publishing dates elude me, so it is hard to be certain.) Of course, Rhinox shows up in the cartoon and does not get wankified, and many of the other cards favor the cartoon (at least as much as the old toy bios did), so.....

The cards that do have character profiless all take content more or less verbatim from the on-line profiless, ("Armada" lacked on-package character profiles), which implies that any archive of character profiles would likely have Airrazor, Rhinox and whatever the 3 character to get a card was. (I am 90% sure that only 3 of the beasts got profile text.)

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-no, really, Rhinox was in stasis until they decided they needed him.
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It's debatable how "canonical" those cards actually are. I believe the Unicron one said some BS that likely came from The Ultimate Guide that was never used in any story. Something about "The Ancient One" creating both Primus and Unicron.
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Most, if not all, of the character cards were drawn from toy packages. Those cannot be discounted entirely, as much as we might want to discount some of them.
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I very much enjoyed Beast Wars when it had it's run on television, and I plan to revisit it as soon as I can get my hands on the DVD box set. In my opinion the stories in each episode were very compelling, with a hint of mystery that just kept me hooked. Anyway it was awesome. I know I'm going to enjoy it all over again.
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