I’ve always held the opinion that BWII and BWNeo’s placement in the timeline depends on the continuity. In the American BW continuity, Lio Convoy (Leonidas Primal) and Big Convoy (Slammoth Magnus) are contemporaries of the Axalon’s crew who were busy on other worlds (Galvatron and Magmatron were Predacon military commanders who were unaware of BW Megs’s plans; the latter survived the Vehicon apocalypse and came to lead a team of new “Dinobots”). In the clusterfrag that is Japanese G1, they’re descendants who live on a remechanized post-Beast Machines Cybertron (it’s a whole thing). Regarding Neo itself… this was admittedly a very bold misfire. What I mean by that is that Takara was clearly having a ball designing the cleanest of beast modes for the new molds… which has the unfortunate consequence of the robot modes being clunky kibbly messes and the toys being nightmares to transform for the target audience. It would be like handing MP-44 to a kid in the 80s and expecting them to want another Transformers toy. And that’s a shame, because (to me) Neo feels like it has the greatest impact of any Japanese-exclusive Transformers show on the rest of the franchise. Magmatron is perhaps the most popular character (he jumped into Beast Machines’s toyline, got a starring role in IDW’s BW miniseries, and is now the Commander of United), Longrack got a reference in Cybertron, the Predacon dinos had impressive longevity (I still remember the Guiledart/Killer Punch recolor as AOE Slug), and I doubt Dark Energon would exist without Angolmois being in this show. As much as I love Lio Convoy, BW Galvatron, and their crews, I can’t say they had the same impact on the franchise as those who crewed the Yukikaze and Gung Ho.

Here's hoping for a Legacy Big Convoy in the future. Or whatever they might call him in English.

One of the cool facts about this series was that Unicron was originally intended to eventually show up in his non-galvatron , planet alt mode "true form" AND was to get a toy of said "true form," to the point that they even developed a prototype of Unicron's intended toy YEARS before we finally got the first official Unicron toy in Armada. You can still find pictures of the Beast Wars Neo Unicron prototype on the internet and it was super cool. Go look it up if you want to see something amazing that could have been.

13:45 to be fair Giraffes have been know to slap the tar out of lions when the going gets tough.

I always thought Big Convoy had a western theme too. The tusks on the shoulders make me think of decorations you see on an oil tycoon’s car or even a longhorn.

It's nice to see Beast Wars Neo getting some more love. I remember when I first watched the series, I was bedriddenly sick and this series was like a nice bowl of chicken noodle soup to help me get better.

Rockbuster was colored like the rare VHS variant of Razorclaw. I wish they also used the Airazor variant scheme too. Also the quasi-Transmetal repaints of the basic Spittor, and Clawjaw molds would have been awesome too…

Hasbro needs to make a new horse transformer toy, just so they can later remold it in to a mlp Collaborative figure, it would so funny

That triceratops has had like 7 repaints, and they're all wonderful. Sabreback and his repaints are pretty great too. My absolute favorite though is Break. We badly need another Penguin Transformer someday.

Of the six “main” Maximals for Neo, I would love to see pretty much everyone but Break and Stampy again. (Stampy was never interesting to me, character or design wise, and I’ve seen enough shellformers to know that Break would need to be fully reworked from the ground up to work today.) Longrack’s gotten references here and there, but nothing concrete. Heinrad has always been a cult favorite, so getting a new figure would fly off the shelves. I love Cohrada, I need my cowboy cobra boy again. And Big Convoy… well, at this point, we’ve had enough Platinum repaints and Encore rereleases, I think just a regular Walmart retro release wouldn’t surprise us; please just give us a new Big Convoy mold, guys. But then I look at the Preds. The entire crew of the Dinosaur is full of bangers that deserve new light shone on them. Magmatron is already getting a new figure. We just reused Guiledart for Age of Extinction recently, why shouldn’t we make an updated version of the mold? Saberback has always been a favorite of mine. Sling is a horrid victim of Potus Manus (Butt Hand) and I refuse to let him suffer any longer! Dead End is terrific idea, why have we never revisited the “Man Trapped in a Gachapon Capsule” alt mode? Archadis has always interested me, though I could never get my hands on one. Bazooka and Mach Kick, we don’t need to revisit. All the other slight retool/repaint characters, we can leave in the past. The less we remember Randy, _the better._

5:02 This was also inspired by the Nostradamus prophecy (Botcon 99 would do something similar for their storyline).

I have owned Longrack, Dead-End from the proper line, and Big Convoy and all the Dino Destron troopers like Saberback, Bazooka, Guiledart, and Archadis from BM, Universe, and RiD.

I now want a Heinrad generations figure. And I can’t wait to see how Legacy updates on that Magmatron figure.

We can thank Sonokong for making loads more Neo toys for more collectors to get, and for the only other dub in Korean on rare VHS.

This is easily my favorite TF toy line. At one point, many years ago before marriage and kids, I had the whole set. Including the Blendtrons. Mach Kick and Killer Punch were my favorite figures. Loved Magmatron and Big Convoy, too!

I've yet to watch the anime, but I've always been fascinated by the beast modes in "BW Neo," especially for the Predacons/Destrons and Big Convoy all being prehistoric creatures. Heck, I'd love to have a Big Convoy toy, if only to have a mammoth transformer.

I expected a lot of weird things from Neo. Everything I've seen of it was wacky looking. But i was still not ready for "the japanese beast wars leaders directly scale to unicron" within the first 5 minutes

Both Archadis & Cohrada are awesome!

I really do like the majority of the toys, especially Big Convoy, Longrack, Cohrada, Stampy, and Archadis. But it’s also very much a shellformer era. And it’s also of a design era I call “only meant to be a toy.” Somebody like the triceratops Destron there, with his had hand and weird shoulder pad, is not somebody who could enjoy a normal life. He looks like he’d barely fit through most doors and only has one real hand. I really hope with Magmatron for a commander, and Lio Convoy last year, we can get Big and BW II Galvatron.

Did they actually use the "dead mode" in the show? And if so HOW! What would be the practical use of those? I do understand why it was included because Jurassic Park toys were around at the same time that had a similar gimmick but it also made more sense when they were meant to be real dinosaurs and not robots.

The first time I ever heard of anything after the original "Beast Wars" was when "Transformers Universe" released the Nemesis Primal based on Beast Wars Neo. I still have the figure, it is a lot of fun to transform, but it is VERY reliant on its shell

TJ is the only TF reviewer I know who calls BW II “Beast Wars Two.” Pretty much everybody else calls it “Beast Wars Second,” which I believe is the more typical Japanese pronunciation of a Roman numeral on the end of a title, like with a son named after his father, rather than like a numbered sequel.

I kinda wish I owned Rockbuster. I liked that colorscheme

Me: (Seeing Mach Kick's weapon mode) "This is the abomination! Exterminate!" Also, FYI, the Mois part of Angol Mois is pronounced the same as the French word for "me".

If you ignore IDW's earlier beast wars comics,my head canon is that II and neo take place in the present day of when the original BW caste came from but now the maximals and predacons are at war for some reason,maybe the tri-predicus council finally launched their plan to overthrow the maximals?

Magmatron is still my favorite transformers villain.

I have the encore one myself and it looks so good standing next to Legacy Lio. They’re great scale.

Honestly I love some of the sillier designs, I would very much like a Heinrad.

Just like BWII changed the faction theming to have all the fully organic animals be Maximals (though the bugs were set apart as a subgroup), Neo changed it again to be (mostly) "extant vs extinct". The exceptions, of course, being Big Convoy himself (the only prehistoric mammal in any BW line) and Crazybolt (a frilled lizard Predacon).

I'll be honest, I don't quite see how Unicron being in this show means it takes place at the same time as American Beast Wars. All that really tells us is that it's in the same universe, which was never really in question. Also, I think Angolmois is supposed to be pronounced in a French style, like "Angle-mwah".

We need 100% more Penguin robot

I am so friggen hype for Legacy Magmatron

I would love to see a DVD release of beast wars 2 and neo like they did with the original three Japanese exclusive transformers cartoons (headmasters master force and victory). C'mon Shout get on it! Lolol

I still don’t understand why Hasbro never licensed any of the Japanese Beast Wars Sequel series for subtitled sets here state side

11:54 Have people took issue with his head sculpt? I do know he showed up in the 2021 Beast Wars comic.

Angle-mwah. Its French was was Nostrodamus trying to say Mongolians without saying Mongolians. What a weird choice of name for Dark Energon before that was a thing

Very enjoyable video

more tie in with g1 and beast wars too with the beast wars 2 movie

I still have my BW Neo Deadend and Big Convoy.

the Vok in Beast Wars was a threat to both the Maximals and Predacons

Hey anyone who’s seen One Piece can tell you about the infinite destructive power of a giraffe

10:55/11:19 I know in IDW he fought against Javelin.

5:12/5:18/5:26 In my headcanon, I go by the original catalogue of it taking place around the 2300s (300 years into the future), and that Gaea is 24th century Earth after humanity left the planet in the distant past (as seen in the Selects manga) This also connects it to IDW's Ascending comic which takes place afterwards.

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The only Neo figure is have is Longrack. Though i do have the reissue Big Convoy and Beast Machines Magmatron. Only watched episode 1 of the Anime so far, but i do like what Takara did with the toyline.

If I were to dub name Big convoy, I would call him Mammoth Primal, Mammoth Magnus or Slammoth Prime.

Break and Dead-End are friggin' HILARIOUS I love them!

Chimera isnt said with typical Ch sound, it’s more like a K. Think like how you’d read the word Kai. So basically phonetically it would be Kaimera

I’m no expert but I believe it’s pronounced like this: Angle-wah

I believe the Energy they Collected is pronounced An~gul~wa

It's Beast Wars Second, not Beast Wars Two :p

Big convoy for legacy or Haslab I think it will happen with magmatron coming next year

Bro you forget Stampy, that was a cool toy

Biggggg ConnnnnnVoyyyyyyyyy!!!!!

honestly....DeadEnd.... reminded me too much of Thunderblast from Cybertron. good grief. all shell no former. yeah break was honestly one of the more infamous ones but at least he was more interesting and ambitious than an ammonite

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No thoughts on Stampy?!?!? 😢

Me whenever Big Convoy's matrix glows at the end: "Wheel of Morality turn turn turn, tell us the lesson that we should learn."

Do a good number of the characters need proper English names or not (especially that one image where it shows various Maximals in their beast modes who are waiting for their new assignments, comprising many different animal species (not just mammals). I know one of them is Star Upper, the kickboxing kangaroo)?

10.40, you say "star became a thing", what is this? Is it a line of transformers I don't know about?

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