*Me:* "Transformers couldn't possibly be any more confusing-" *These commercials:* "Here's Gen 2 figures sold as part of the Japanese Beast Wars 2nd toyline!"
It gets even more ridiculous when you find out the Beast wars 2 G2 megatron figure is in fact supposed to be a completely different character "megastorm" that just looks Identical to G2 megatron and was mistaken to be him by the predacons. If I remember this correctly, G2 megatron proper was never given a Japanese release which makes this even more surreal.
@@monster-mecha_enthusiast_2002 Not hating. Also G2 and beast wars are still part of "G1" lmao. It's weird name scheme stuff that exists due to G2 being a thing. G2 and beast wars/beast wars II are continuations of the story of G1. Japan got a bunch of exclusive G1 cartoon seasons instead of the G2 comics, but they still connect in some vague sense continuity wise, so when beast wars II came out they released a some G2 stuff in beast wars II and worked it into the plot as stuff like "this guy looks exactly like Megatron but he isn't him! whoops, we got the wrong guy!" It's a weird and kinda cool workaround. Not bad, just funny.
The reason is: They needed to fill the ranks with minimal creation of new molds, and using G2 molds to shore up the Predacon ranks killed two birds with one stone because a number of them had seen no release or relatively limited release in Japan.
American-originated. But Japan wound up with longass hiatuses between the seasons of the American cartoon, so BWII and BWN were created to keep things alive in the meantime.
Now that we got Leo Prime, it would've been awesome to see some of these guys in Legacy someday, my favorite ones besides Lio Convoy are Apache,Big Horn,Diver,Lio Junior, and Stampy lol.