"Beast Wars" - Toy Line VS. Television VS. Comics
IGN Sea Beast Wars was definitely a 1990s revival of the Transformers franchise by Hasbro. There was the toy line and there was the television. The toys don't always match up with the television series such as G1 Megatron was released as a TANK when the 1980s series made him a handgun. Later, G1! Megatron's tank mode was used in future series such as Transformers Armada . Apparently, Hasbro makes the toys first before any series was made. I mean, try to think of the initial prototype of Beast Wars had the following... Transformers Wiki The original toyline (as planned) had Optimus Primal as a bat (which is funny) and BW! Megatron is a crocodile. However, all that was changed in the TV series proper and later toys when Optimus Primal was a gorilla and BW! Megatron became a tyrannosaurus - an animal more befitting the Beast Wars . The toyline was born with a TV series. However, you may notice that a couple of toys NEVER made it into the original TV series at all. There were toy c...