It's probably due to Nightshade having scanned not an actual owl but a statue of one. So, technically, Nightshade's altmode is merely an owl-shaped rock. ;)
Waitaminute! That's means Nightshade's a Rock Lord! 🤓
Everything you talk about following this line was all post-Next Mutation. I was talking about at the time when Next Mutation was still new, which was during the era of the much-reviled Power Rangers Turbo. AFTER that is when Saban got a sudden jolt of quality. The PRIS crossover ep debuted after...
The idea of Scourge being an evil Optimus from a dark future stems mostly from how that was the case for Nemesis Prime in the Kingdom season of the Netflix cartoon.
According to this report, among the many revisions made to the final version of the film, apparently Scourge was originally supposed to be a much more sympathetic villain being forced to serve Unicron...
Sadly, buffoonery seem to be the very thing that Saban loved having for most villain characters in shows they made for kids, live action or animated. At least, at that time.
You know good and well that one in-joke-filled book about Transformers Animated, and a bunch of in-joke-filled posts on a Fun Pub-run Facebook page, aren't enough to legally declare a ton of Bandai-made toys from the 1980s that were never owned by or licensed to Hasbro/Takara official...
You say no cheating, and yet you include modern Diaclone toys, Tonka GoBots, and IP-stealing third party toys, none of which are Transformers.
Might as well throw in some Power Rangers megazords while you're at it. ;)
Waspinator as a jet would homage more than just the Starscream possession (or the Transmetal toy's vehicle mode), but also this:
Though, a helicopter would also work, as evidenced by the Cybertron Buzzsaw toy homaging Waspy's moldmate of the same name:
Yeah, that's what the original unreleased toy of Animated Wasp was gonna be like, with the name "Fugitive Waspinator".
No new headsculpt, sadly, due to Ironhide taking up the budget for a new head in the originally planned wave the two would have been a part of, before Wasp got cancelled and...
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