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Links to my scans of the two catalogs for figures in this series can be found at the bottom of the page.
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Apache
Autojetter
Dirge/Dirgegun and Thrust/Thrustor
Galvatron
Lioconvoy
Starscream/Hellscream and BB/Max-B
Lioconvoy's
fiercely loyal second-in-command, Apache once owed him his life
and so transformed into his third mode, an artillery unit, to rescue him
from the sawblade-armed Insectron Mantis (recolored Manterror). Normally
Apache assumes a robot mode or his beast mode, a mandrill. He is given
to showing strong emotions like grief or anger, and is easily annoyed by
beings such as the three Jointron brothers. :D
Apache is a strict commander who demands and gets the best from the other
Cybertrons. His usual Destron opponent during battles is Megastorm.
The Apache figure is identical in colors and mold to his American Hasbro version,
B'Boom.
Part of a group of four Destron Autorollers, Autojetter joins them in
construction tasks and provides aerial defense and offense.
Like the other Autorollers, the figure can auto-transform from vehicle mode to robot mode and back, requiring only manual adjustment to finish transformation of the arms. A switch on the back of his feet/engines allows one to activate the auto-transform by rolling him forward or backward. This feature has the side effect of giving him large fused-together lower legs. Only his arms and head are truly posable.
Another feature are his rapid-fire missiles. By sliding the blue tabs on the wings out to the ends, one can fire the six missiles out one by one. This feature works in both robot and jet modes.
Here are my pictures of Autojetter:
Dirge/Dirgegun and Thrust/Thrustor
Dirge and Thrust are a pair of Destron friends who do things together,
such as getting into humorous moments often. ^_^ Dirge
transforms into a blue jet (based on Machine Wars Thundercracker and
Skywarp). Thrust transforms into a yellow and black jet (based on
Machine Wars Megatron and Megaplex).
Late in the series, dissatisfied by their inadequacy when fighting with the Cybertrons, they seek help from Gigastorm. Inside his base mode, he infused them with Angolmois energy, mutating them into new forms. Dirge became Dirgegun, a cyborg wasp (based on the original Waspinator), while Thrust became Thrustor, a cyborg raptor (based on the original Dinobot).
Here are my pictures of them:
Galvatron is the leader of his band of Destrons seeking energy who came
to Gaea, following the leads given by his chest's big Galva-Matrix.
He gained his dragon and drill tank modes when he asked the planet's
supercomputer to give him the most powerful beast and vehicle forms.
This left him unconscious for a while, leaving his brother Megastorm
in command. When he reawoke, though, he became a powerful force,
especially whenever he was drunk on Angolmois energy. ^_^;
He has to deal with his scheming brother's attempts at times to seize
leadership, but apparently loves him and so always forgives him each time.
Later in the series Galvatron took on a more active role. He thwarted the Cybertrons' attempts to stop the eruption of Angolmois energy from the planet, and remained in contact through his Galva-Matrix with Nemesis, a giant object in space coming to Gaea to absorb the unleashed energy.
Whether Galvatron is related to the Galvatron of the Transformers movie and the original series is unknown, but regarded as false.
Here are my pictures of him:
Lioconvoy (aka Lio Convoy) is the leader of his group of fellow Cybertrons
in this series. He gained his lion form when he was found by a white lion
after he had crash-landed on Gaea, and carried by it into a cave. There
the planet gave him the beast mode. Gaea also created a near duplicate of
him in brown as Liojunior, but Lioconvoy didn't know this until late in the
series. Throughout the series his mission is to stop the Destrons from
drawing out Gaea's Angolmois energy and escaping with it. He accomplished
this when he used his Matrix in his left chest to destroy Galvatron's
energy-absorber Nemesis, destroying them all in the process.
However, he and the other Cybertrons found themselves outside a gateway to the Matrix dimension, and headed off for it as the series ends. He will show up again in the next series, Beast Wars Neo, to help Big Convoy against Unicron in Galvatron's form.
Here are my pictures of Lioconvoy:
Starscream/Hellscream and BB/Max-B
Starscream is
Galvatron's
most loyal Destron. BB is Starscream's
own loyal partner, and are often seen together. Starscream transforms
into a stealth fighter, and BB transforms into a stealth bomber and
(later on in the series) also a tank. They use the ability to combine
into a single flying vessel later in the series. BB has a habit of
answering Starscream with "Roger!" ^_^ Although this Starscream
apparently isn't related to the one in the original Transformers series,
he shares his deviousness.
Through Gigastorm's machinations late in the series, the two fell off a cliff into a lava filled with Angolmois energy erupting from Gaea. The energy mutated them into their new forms. Starscream became Hellscream, a cyborg shark Transformer (based on Cybershark), and BB became Max-B, a cyborg dog Transformer (based on K-9).
Here are some of my pictures of them:
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