The Daily Prime goes back to the drawing board for a look at the Takara Transformers Beast Wars Neo Model Sheets drawings. These illustrations made by character artist Hiroyuki Taiga in 1998 show many views from the Prehistoric Mastodon character design process. As we can see, they were working out the transformation, weapons and other elements for the fantastic Maximals leader.
What was realized as the final toy had to be both complex and impressive to stand up to the Magamatron Combiner team. The amazing robot mode that is loaded with weapons and articulation, transforms into a nearly perfect Wooly Mammoth with a lot of effort, but it is worth it. As far out as this toy is, it has been reproduced quite a bit over the years with many of the collector variants in Cartoon, Nemesis, Magnus and other just Prime editions made. Read on to see the many drawings below thanks to @TFRaw the Digital Archive of Historic Transformers Media.
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