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Busted Rumo(u)rs!
2. G1 Scourge is
going to show up in a Predacon body and explain the
the Maximals everything that has happened since they
returned to Cybertron.
Look, it just ain't gonna
happen. With almost half of the first season
done, and a lot of what happened already explained,
plus the amount of time it takes to create a
character just to kill him off in five minutes, PLUS
the BS&P rules about character death... I think
not.
RUMOUR BUSTER!:
Anyone who actually watches the show knows that this
is bunk. Completely bunk.
NOTE:
This rumor, and the two that follow it, are from a
time back before the show had even aired, and Bob
Skir was actively answering questions on his
website. Basically, someone who was really bored
decided to make these up, and pass them off as inside
information. Since no one knew what to expect,
they were fun thoughts to entertain. Of course,
by the time the first episode was screened at BotCon
'99 (to tremendous audience approval that warrated an
encore showing, I should point out), it was obvious
that it was all lies. These very
"rumors" led to the creation of this often
humerus rumor page. The fact that the very first
rumors, about the identities of Generals, were
speculated (and later proved true) even BEFORE the
show aired probably doesn't say much for the shock
value of the show.
3. Optimus Prime
will make an appearance as LioConvoy (in physical
form, at least), and quickly be killed off.
Primal will get all upset and shout
"Megatron.!" like he did before the
transwarp cell explosion.
EXTREMELY unlikely. I think
Hasbro has learned its lesson: killing Prime off is
NEVER a good idea. Which reminds me.
They killed off Prime in the Transformers movie,
they killed off Duke in the G.I. Joe movie, but why
didn't they kill off anyone in My Little Pony?
What about the ratings, man?
RUMOUR BUSTER!:
Again, anyone who actually watches the show knows
that this is bunk. Completely bunk.
4. Mangaboss is
Supreme Commander and bearer of the Matrix.
There is absolutely no evidence for
this whatsoever, and is in complete contradiction
with rumor #3. Bob Skir has alluded to the
possibility of huge robots (possibly bases and
combiners, but who's to say?), and that G1
characters haven't factored into their stories *so
far.* I expect the first season to be somewhat
tame, after which all hell breaks loose in the
second season. This IS a novel for television,
after all. I think this was just the pipe
dream of some people trying to justify their
purchase of the toy...
RUMOUR BUSTER!:
Someone was pulling our collective leg. Get
over it.
5. Rattrap was
given wheels to appeal to the "handicapped
demographic."
This one is rather asinine, and many people have
expressed extreme displeasure at the idea. The
truth is that we don't really know why Rattrap has
wheels. The only 'bot we've seen in action in
robot mode so far is Optimus, and he is pretty damn
cool. I don't think Rattrap's wheels
really make him handicapped, though I sort of
imagine him zipping about like Hack and Slash from
ReBoot. Scott McNeil will feel right at home.
RUMOUR BUSTER!:
Rattrap was, in fact, given wheels to piss us off
and to give us fodder for the Lost Episodes.
So there.
6. Bob Skir is a
complete moron who will drive the whole Transformers
franchise into the ground, just like he did Godzilla
and X-Men.
Where do you people come up with
this stuff? I loved X-Men all the way
throughout, but I've never seen an episode of
Godzilla out of sheer principle. The people
who say this sort of thing are usually the ones who
think they (or their dog or dead great-grandmother)
could do a better job than Skir. The truth is
that practically NONE of them would be able to pull
it off. They'd ignore story and structure and
all common sense by loading it down with a bunch of
G1 characters who the younger viewers don't even
know, kill off all the Maximals they don't like, and
throw in a bunch of wrenches that would just make
the show suck in general. Leave this one to
the professionals kids. With half the first
season complete, I think this show will make an
indelible impression on all who watch it.
RUMOUR BUSTER!:
I was wrong. An individual named Skywarp has
been perfectly capable of "pulling it
off," and is still doing so at the Bottalk Official Beast
Machines Message Board. Oh, and a lot of
people hate Skir, and some with good reason, but the
show is still marvelous... at times.
7. Jim Byrnes is
out of work and lonely.
Untrue. As he informed us at Botcon (July
15-18, 1999 for all of you who missed it) he DOES
offer his voice talents in Beast Machines. Not
only that, he is also working on the new series
Highlander: The Raven, where I *assume* he is
reprising his role as Joe Dawson. As for
Highlander 4... don't hold your breath, kids.
They keep pushing back the filming date, and,
according to Jim, "Christopher Lambert isn't
getting any younger." He went on to state
that neither was HE, for that matter.
As for being lonely... there's no way to know.
RUMOUR BUSTER!:
Not only is Jim playing Thrust in Beast
Machines, but he's also working closely with
Elizabeth Gracen. You never know... ;).
8. Beast Machines
is sucks.
Quiet, you.
RUMOUR BUSTER!:
After careful consideration, I have decided that you
do indeed need to be quiet.
9. They turned
Megatron into an ugly soda machine. He's
uglier than Blackarachnia's forehead. He's
probably the original Megatron anyway.
What what WHAT?!? What's wrong with BA's
forehead? She's got the Klingon-warrior look
going for her, man! How can anyone have
problems with Blacksexarachfemmehotnia? As for
the rest, this is most definitely our
"beloved" BW Megatron. Again, on bobskir.com, they
clearly state that the G1 spark issue is dead and
will not be addressed in Beast Machines. And
he's NOT a soda machine, he's just wearing a robe
while his beast form (the awesome Red Dragon) is
being slowly disassembled. It's all part
of his vision to make Cybertron "pure," by
eliminating anything that remotely had to do with
animals. See, it's not just the die-hard G1
transfanatics who think that a bunch of terrestrial
fauna overrunning a machine-themed planet is a bad
idea. Also, our buddy "Tankorr"
seems to share those ideals.
RUMOUR BUSTER!:
Megatron isn't a soda machine! He's a giant
floating head! And something else, it would
seem... mwahahahaha!
11. Rodimus
Prime and Galvatron show up in Episode 10.
Galvy kills Rodimus and takes the Matrix of
Leadership. Megatron takes on a new form as a
jet, which is going to be and Ultra-sized toy.
Patently false, except for the part about the
Ultra-sized jet... it just probably isn't
Megatron. This rumor was started by a wry
little poster on Benson Yee's Beast Machines board
as part of a school assignment. Shame on you,
whoever you are. And I would be able to
completely confirm this for you all, but Fox had to
show some stupid two or three hour animated Nascar
piece of crap last weekend.
RUMOUR BUSTER!:
See? Episode 10
has come an gone. Not a single G1 reference in
sight.
NOTE:
It's obvious now that the ultra jet toy was
Jetstorm. At the time this rumor (which was
really just another idiot who decided to be funny) was
seen, we knew about the toy, but not it's
identity. Anyone and shaved Chihuahua could
figure out that it was supposed to be Jetstorm.
Sometimes the obvious answers really are the hardest
to see...
12. Phil Bond and I
(TheOrange) have left the Beast Machines board for
good.
Not true, at least I am still about, posting here
and there. As a matter of fact, I'll post
there eventually so people will be encouraged to go
here and read about this! Phil? I
haven't talked to him yet (though I hope he will
help me out with this site, if I ask nicely), but I
believe he'll come back after the newbies improve,
and his ego is sufficiently coaxed. I know it
worked on me (thanks FireBlade)!
RUMOUR BUSTER!:
Yeah, we're still around.
14. The Oracle is
an extension of, or merely related to Vector Sigma.
Entirely possible. Perhaps it is powered by a
key similar to Vector Sigma's. Perhaps
it produced one for Tankorr at his whim, or just
told him where to find it. What's even
more interesting is that The Oracle and Vector Sigma
might be at odds. How interesting would it be if we
were to discover that during Megatron's time making
the virus (or before it, more likely) that he
encountered Vector Sigma. But oh, wait...
RUMOUR BUSTER!:
It would seem that the Oracle *surrounds*
Vector Sigma. When it was created is as of yet
unknown.
15. Optimus Primal
will die in the season finale.
I doubt it. This "rumor" is based off
of the preview, which shows Optimus Primal's hand
disintigrate. So what? It could be a dream
or vision, it could be cute animation, or it could be
factual... who knows. If Primal *were* to die,
then that would leave Cheetor in charge... and... oh
my god...
RUMOUR BUSTER!:
Well, Primal does die, after a fashion, but
he comes back to lead the Maximals once
more. Still, this was sort of true.
Although it IS a shame who DID die and stayed dead...
NOTE:
This rumor is about the first season, and does not
refer to Primal's fate at the end of season 2.
Besides, he didn't disintegrate in episode 13, he completely
decorporealized in episode 14. Therefore, this
rumor is false. He DID die in the following
episode, but since that's at the beginning of a new
season, that still makes this rumor false.
17. Jetstorm will
be reformatted into a Condor and become Silverbolt
again.
This one started because the name
"Silverbolt" appeared in an early toy list as a
Basic-sized Condor. This doesn't necessarily
mean that Silverbolt will be recovered from Jetstorm
any more than Optimus Primal's hand disappearing
means he'll die. For all we know, this Condor
could merely have the same name as the astrally
misplaced Fuzor. Remember how BM Scavenger
used to be called Destructicon, and how Buzzsaw used to
be Muddobber? No? Why weren't you
visiting this site back then, you putz!
NOTE:
It appears this is true, according to some screen
shots in the publicity stills section at bobskir.com, however
this may not be the Silverbolt we all know and
love! We'll just have to wait until Episode
17.
RUMOUR BUSTER!: Well, he wasn't reformatted
per se. He was given a technorganic body
through interesting means, so technically, this
rumor was untrue. Don't you love
technicalities?
18. Vector Sigma is
the impetus for Megatron's "No-Organics"
campaign.
Hmmm, like I said, that would be interesting.
In fact, that idea was used in an entirely bogus
review of episode 10 (this was MONTHS ago), wherein
the Maximals fall into the center of Cybertron where
they find Galvatron and Rodimus frozen in ice.
They are awoken, fight, and Galvatron kills Rodimus
and takes the Matrix. Galvatron and Megatron
(the BW/BM version) do some little action-type
stuff, and Megatron gets turned into a jet and tells
the Maximals that it was Vector Sigma who commanded
him to purge the planet of everything organic.
The only "hole" in this idea is the
Rebirth (other than the review being entirely bogus,
but these are mere details). The three-parter
was ignored in the Japanese continuity, and
apparently in Beast Wars as well, since it ended in
a second golden age for Cybertron. Who brought
all this about? Vector Sigma.
Vector Sigma, however, far from being anti-organic,
proclaimed that the future of the transformer race
would depend upon the fusion of Cybertronian and
Human. Thus, the Headmasters and Targetmasters
were born. Had the American series been
allowed to continue (The Rebirth could easily be
considered the first episodes of a fourth season),
we probably would have seen the Powermasters as
well. Maybe even, >GASP<, the Action
Masters. But, again, it was cancelled.
Blessing in disguise, that.
NOTE:
Just to reiterate the above paragraph, this idea
seems pretty impossible, but as we are supposed to
remain objective (despite the overwhelming evidence
to the contrary), this rumo(u)r will stay un-BUSTED!
for the time being.
RUMOUR BUSTER!:
Vector Sigma IS the Oracle, which is very much for
Cybertron being a balance of the technological and
the organic. Sorry, kids.
19. Nightscream is
Rumble/Frenzy/Ratbat/A Predacon.
The only "evidence" to support this is
that during the flashback sequence in Episode 5:
Forbidden Fruit, we see a Transformer who very
closely resembles Soundwave (details, face, colors,
and everything) protecting a smaller Transformer
(who we later find out was Nightscream), and taking
a direct hit from a tank drone. Now,
Nightscream's original form appeared very much like
Rumble's (or Frenzy's if you like the comics
better). Because he inexplicably turned into a
bat after going offline, others have speculated that
he may be Ratbat (also "evidenced" by
Rattrap calling him a rodent with wings. Of
course, he called the aerodrones "flying attack
dogs," which one could interpret as meaning
that Silverbolt is their general, which we find out
may not be true. Oh well). Perhaps the
animators were just being cute, like with the
Optimus Prime statue. At the very least,
because Soundwave was guarding him, he might be a
Predacon and not a Maximal as he had claimed.
We will see... NOTE: Skir swears up and down
that this is merely a coincidence, and that all
those Soundwaves we saw were really just clever CG
recycling tricks. Of course, he also said that
the episode guide was "a complete fraud, and
nothing about it is correct."
NOTE:
It's looking less and less likely that Nightscream
is going to stab the Maximals in the back. His
new "friend," however, is a completely
different story altogether...
RUMOUR BUSTER!:
This rumor developed because many anticipated that
some big plot point would be made out of it.
Not so. Sorry. Still, there's
always hope for the true cynic.
20. Unicron will
make some sort of appearance in episode 26, the
series finale.
Here's hoping. :)
"A giant head floating over Cybertron....
what a wonderfully creepy image! (Please note that
I'm deep-into writing #26 as I make this
observation!)" - Bob
Skir.
NOTE:
This giant, floating head is probably just the
Megatron-thingy that made an appearance in Episode 14.
RUMOUR BUSTER!:
In fact, that really IS all it was. Sorry,
kids, no Unicron. Skir be damned. But,
to his credit, he never actually *said* we would see
Unicron. Of course, I have other information
saying that Unicron's head HAS been seen, we just
never knew it? You remember that moon with the
three giant claw marks on it? Apparently that's how the
"Unicron's Head" suggestion made
itself manifest. Interesting, that.
21. Season 2 will
see the rise of "Catimus Prime."
Ha! That'll be the day! I mean...
really! So, Skir has "big plans" for
Cheetor. So, he *might* be left in charge
after Primal "dies." And so we are
definitely going to feel Optimus Prime's presence...
but we would need somthing like the Matrix of
Leadership for that, right? Hah.
Cheetor with the Matrix... funny stuff. At
least they aren't saying that Prime merged with
Vector Sigma. Now THAT would be stretching it
(note the sarcastic tone of the whole "rumour."
In other words, I don't put such things past the
Beast Machines writing team... so if these come to
pass, I shall not be surprised).
NOTE:
So then what's up with Primal Prime?
Hmmm?
RUMOUR BUSTER!:
NO NO NO NO NO! Perish the thought!
Cheetor will NOT become the next Hot Rod, though the
end of Episode
26 might suggest *something.* Then
again, all these rumors make one look too deeply at
insignificant things.
22. Spark War will
see the return of hardcore transforming.
Not entirely certain what this means. Maybe
we've seen it already in Home Soil.
Perhaps this means what I think it does... mmm...
I'll say that later. From what I understand,
they couldn't get or simply didn't use the
old-school sound effect (would have made Skir
happy). Heck, they used it on Ravage in
Beast Wars! Oh well.
RUMOUR BUSTER!:
Well, that was disappointing. By
"hardcore transforming," Skir only meant
that Obsidian and Strika were oldskoolers.
Terribly dissapointing. Did hardcore
transforming return? No. I guess
they tried to get the rights to the sounds from the
original Transformers series, but couldn't (strange,
considering its use in The Agenda, Part Three with
Ravage). So, in the sense that their
transformations sounded and looked more Beast
Wars-like, did hardcore transforming return?
Hell fart damn, no.
23. Spark War will
see the Return of Optimus Prime
Reasoning? The toy, Primal Prime,
for one. Wonder where he comes
from? I hope it isn't just an overpriced
repaint. No toy above the Mega
price-point (except Magnaboss) has not been on the
show in at least one episode. This guy is an
OpOp repaint. Also, the title of one of the
episodes, "When
Legends Fall" makes the mind boggle.
And what was that about hardcore transforming?
Hmmm... wonder what the future will bring.
RUMOUR BUSTER!:
He's an overpriced repaint. He's not
even *that* overpriced. He's supposed to
retail for $25, $5 less than Optimal Optimus
did. Primal Prime never once appears in the
show. Those who point to Megatron in the last
episode can stuff it. Did you see Optimus
Prime-like colors? No. And why would he
call himself Primal Prime anyway? He's
*MEGATRON.*
24. Obsidian and
Stryka are really Springer and Arcee.
I would love for that to be true, but here's why I
think it isn't. Obsidian identified himself as
Obsidian, and said that's who he had always
been. It was a name that Optimus clearly
recognized. They also knew the name of Stryka. So, they were a general duo who had
worked together before countless times. But
reasoning FOR the argument: Springer was a green
helicoptor, Obsidian is a green-ish helicoptor.
Arcee was a futuristic pink car, Stryka is a
futuristic armored pink car/tank thingy. Not
the strongest argument, but neither was the
Silverbot-is-Jetsorm / Rhinox-is-Tankor(r)
bit. We'll see what happens.
RUMOUR BUSTER!:
Completely untrue. Obsidian has been and
always was named Obsidian. Strika has been and
was always named Strika. Apparently they are
the two greatest generals known to Transformer kind
(of course, this ignores 'bots like Optimus Prime
and Megatron, but let's stop picking nits).
Interesting note, though: Obsidian was
originally called Blitzwing, who one might argue as
being a great General. Strika similarily was
called Blastrax, the leader of the Combaticons.
Just be glad that Skir didn't get his way and get
her named Tananka.
25. Obsidian and Stryka
are really Star Sabre and Aleeta-1.
A more obscure reference than the first. Both
were guardians of Cybertron in some fashion, and
both have appeared in some form of Transformers,
whether it be the Japanese flavor or the UK
comics. Either way, if they are involved, then
that means that Skir is more well-versed that most
TransFans (including myself). Is this more
likely than the first theory? Probably
not. As Skywarp, TransFan extraordinaire, said
himself, "there is a 99% chance I'm
wrong." Just for clarification, Aleeta-1
is a UK creation and is not the same 'bot as
Elita-1, Optimus Prime's old flame. Of
course, there's always the problem that Star Saber
was destroyed...
RUMOUR BUSTER!:
Obsidian has been and always was named
Obsidian. Strika has been and was always named
Strika. 26. Obsidian and Stryka
are really Cy-Kill and Crasha.
*THWACK!* I don't care how many similarities
there are between Bob Skir's version of Transformers
history and the GoBots; I don't care how much Strika
reminds you of Crasha; it just ain't true!
NOTE: I
distinctly recall this rumor as existing before.
I don't know what happened to it, so I added it again
after the fact.
RUMOUR BUSTER!:
Does it even need to be said? In case the
simple-minded don't get it:
Obsidian has been and always was named
Obsidian. Strika has been and was always named
Strika. |
