Likely had to do with the brand unification that started with Power of the Primes, and the fact that Takara primarily focused on full combiner teams whenever they did their own non-Hasbro releases of CW/UW/POTP molds. Hydra and Buster are only two, and all the good options of making a full...
They couldn't.
Cyclonus is already a Voyager, so he wouldn't need to be stripped of anything extra, anyway.
And Galvatron is a full-sized Leader class who couldn't ever be sold as a Voyager.
You know, it just hit me. The Prime Starscream figure would actually be show-accurate to the time in the cartoon when he lost his T-Cog and couldn't transform.
Hasbro already made a version of Optimus Primal who became a Prime. His name as a Prime was "Optimal Optimus".
That was the whole point of the Power of the Primes fan vote, and the result of Optimus Primal winning it.
If Beast Wars had been canceled after season 1, Transformers would likely have become as dead as most other 1980s toy lines did after the '80s ended.
Beast Wars was the one last chance to save Transformers from the brink of death after the failure of Generation 2. If it had flopped, too, then...
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