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you wont see any of the old ones unless they lived in beasties, I am fairly certain this picks up where beast wars left off when prime put megatron's spark into his g1 body or whatever it was called and left him on earth ending the series, i'll have to go back and watch it again though



Whether you're a G1 fan or a Beast Wars fan, it doesn't matter. This doesn't leave off where anything left off. I've read up on the forums and the fansites. This is Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman's written interpretation of the beginning of the Transformers, directed by Michael Bay. Think: "Transformers Begins" ala Batman begins.

The "Spark" as it's called is just a variant incarnation of what was seen in Beast Wars and the Matrix of Leadership from G1. **SPOILERS** At the end of the 2007 movie, Prime took a piece of it out of Megatron. Ironically, that's probably enough to reduce the overload, allowing Megatron to re-energize using what was left of the original spark. Megatron had a Sea-Fortress in the original series - I could see that easily leading up to the Seacons. Starscream getting away could easily leading to him either creating or bringing down the Combaticons, as well as Thundercracker and Skywarp.

Bay and/or whoever directs and/or writes the next movie will probably review or already has reviewed the myriads of characters from all the series' and may take the most interesting characters with which to form a plotline. Seriously, if he was trying to go Beast Wars on us, we would have seen some links to that in the movie. Looks more to me like it's going along a hybrid route. At any rate, the G1 Tformers eventually had a complete mix of both vehicles/jets and beasts. Dynamic stuff, unless you're too young or old to remember.

Personally, I'd like to see RID Scourge (later called Nemesis Prime) appear as the evil Black-colored version of Prime, mainly because it would be fun.

There's really no reason to believe at this point that G1 characters can't or won't be in the mix for later movies. Most of the ones in the movie were originally in G1, and I don't recall Jazz being in Beast Wars, or Ratchet for that matter - but they certainly were in G1.

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