Transtech
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Transtech is an unreleased line of toys under the Transformers umbrella.
History
After the Beast Machines line ended, Hasbro planned a follow-up series called Transtech. The Transtech concept was a line intended to take Transformers to their most futuristic. Hasbro commissioned sets of designs from Draxhall Jump. The series was supposedly to bring back some of the characters who died in Beast Wars along with some Generation 1 characters, all in new, techno-organic bodies, though with vehicle alternate modes instead of the animals used in Beast Machines. Many concept sketches and even a few toy prototypes were made, but Hasbro scrapped the idea in favor of bringing to their markets as .Releases and designs
Although the Transtech line never reached production, prototypes for Starscream (Apparently heavily influenced by his Machine Wars incarnation) and Cheetor were constructed, and eventually found their way into the hands of private collectors. Concept sketches have also been seen for Blackarachnia, Cheetor, Depth Charge, Megatron, Nightscream, Optimus Prime, Scavenger, Shockwave, Silverbolt, Soundwave, Starscream and a new character called Immorticon.Rumors
It is generally believed that the concept for Transtech Cheetor inspired the design of ' Brakedown and the concept for Transtech Megatron inspired ' Megatron. There were also rumors of a Transtech Dinobot.Accoding to a FAQ on Bob Skir's web site, he planned to have the characters of Obsidian and Strika appear in the next Transformers series after Beast Machines, which would have been Transtech.
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