Talk:Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook

Article coverage

Wouldn't it be better to dedicate only one article for the four issues? The most we're going to get are lists and the occassional screw-up to note. Interrobang 01:35, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree --MistaTee 02:36, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Tables

Can we ditch them? They take up way, way too much space for the very little info they provide. Especially since Issue #2 has so many characters who are the only ones whose names start with whatever letter. Why don't we go with a three or four-column normal text layout like the one used for the artists on Genesis?--M Sipher 03:39, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to do so, although I think we should still separate by issue. --MistaTee 08:45, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Hang on a minute... is the list just wrong, or... or is... Optimus Primal not inluded in the most recent issue? - Chris McFeely 19:39, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I think the listing's wrong. Someone on Allspark mentioned that Primal had a completely preposterous and poorly-phrased "motto" that he would never say with a straight face. Something like "Peace is the absence of conflict bla bla dryness out of character bla snore." --M Sipher 20:08, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Ah, here it is. "Peace is the absence of conflict and the presence of justice." Pardon me while I vomit a little into my mouth. There. I have just vomited a little into my mouth. --M Sipher 20:11, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Really, did Ben Yee suddenly forget what series his site was originally based upon? Because that quote sounds like a japanese Autobot leader who takes himself too seriously, not Primal. --FFN 21:25, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

That was my bad. Primal's indeed included, I just missed him for whatever dumb reason. It's fixed, now. --Spectre 21:38, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Double-bullets

Yeah, that's the only way I can seem to get bullets to show up when there's an image to the left of them. I don't know why this is, but it is. I tried a :* indent, but nothing doing. Wonder if anyone's brought this to the wikia folks' attention. Probably. --M Sipher 00:34, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Still, with the spaces between them, it leaves the bullets all over the place. Do we wnat that either? -- SFH 00:36, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

I just moved the image to the right and made them single bullets, --MistaTee 21:34, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Tsk... McFeely here, at work, having just removed the newest issue of the Sourcebook from its box. They've included Transmutate, but coloured Transmetal Taratulas in his Fox Kids zombie colours instead of the proper ones, Silverbolt II has an eagle head for a head (Skywarp gets it right, even though he's drawn by Milkovich), Sonar is still a "she," and there's no index, so no mention of Artemis.

Did they actually call Magnaboss Silverbolt "Silverbolt II"? Is Scourge included? —Interrobang 14:53, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Of course they didn't mention Artemis :( She's too silly for serious business, manly Beast Wars now. --FFN 14:54, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

collection?

Is this thign slated to be collected? I though IDW collected everything. -Derik 10:23, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Cover Gallery?

Shouldn't we have one? --M Sipher 21:03, 5 August 2009 (EDT)

Profile updates

I'm probably going to be picking up the BW omnibus, and using the Sourcebook section to update the character profiles for a number of characters. Can I get a list of characters whose profiles in the sourcebook are too contradictory with other established fiction to successfully meld into the main profile. User:Eire 18.16 Aug 7 09 (UTC)

Avoid the profiles for any of the Japanese-exclusive characters (Beast Wars II and Beast Wars Neo). They all had their personalities completely overhauled and in most cases don't even remotely resemble their original counterparts. Aside from that, the only Western Beast Wars character I recall the Sourcebook getting wrong was Ramulus. The errors section of this article can give you a pretty good idea of which characters Yee "overhauled", hence which ones to avoid.

There's also Injector and Prowl II, who we already went over. —Interrobang 20:04, 7 August 2009 (EDT)

Possible Flaws in the article

It says Bigmos got a two page and Blackarchnia only got one. I see the opposite in the Omnibus. Was it something that was later fixed or is this a flaw in the article? Also..I may've overlooked it, but one thing I noted that I don't see mentioned in the article: Megatron has an Alligator picture listed as his Transmetal 2 form (even thought in the bio it mentions the origional Dragon mode motif) and no pic is shown of his first one. I'd add it myself, but I'm not sure which part to do so.--Chipmonk328

Not sure when this was question was posed, but I noticed this too; I have the trade of the sourcebook which has Blackarachnia with a double-pager and Bigmos the standard single page. As for Megatron, I found this odd as well but I don't recall off the top of my head if it listed the alligator as his Transmetal 2 form or if it were simply there to show the initial form suggested for him. I think the Transmetal 2 mode would have been more appropriate to include, but I digress. There's a similar error with Iguanus, where it details his Transmetal 2 mode but lacks any pics of same.142.205.241.254 16:36, 2 November 2011 (EDT)

Italics problem

Am I the only one bothered by the fact that this produces an italicized note with the words "italic text" not italicized? --Khajidha 12:51, 22 September 2011 (EDT)