Artist Ken Christiansen, via his social media channels, have shared images of his concept art of the Transformers War For Cybertron Kingdom Tigatron.
We have a look at Tigatron’s beast mode concept which is basically a new tiger head sketch and recolor over the Cheetor concept art we had seen last year.
Update: Robot mode concept art images added.
See the images after the jump and then sound off on the 2005 Boards!
Verno
Because Shadow Panther, Skywarp, Mutant Tigatron, Grimlock, Sandstorm, WC Blackarachnia, Nemesis Primal and Buzz Saw all got one.
T-Hybrid
Why would it? At the time the art was commissioned they were planning a Cheetor repaint.
SPLIT LIP
Not even a new head. :/
Novaxmaximal
a disaster will happen as it always does
T-Hybrid
What if we don't care about scale and are just going off the toys on their individual merits?
Foster
Primal being the height of a deluxe is about the only problem I have with his mold. He shouldn't be the primary ruler of comparison with the other toys. Isn't he the shortest voyager in all WFC?
And I don't seriously think a Cheetor from Tigatron would be better than what was ultimately released. Overall, I think Kingdom Cheetor is the best version yet made of the character. But Tigatron is even better!
Basilisk
yeah then Cheetor could have been taller than Primal you know like he always was.
T-Hybrid
The Tigatron we got repainted as Cheetor would've looked just as weird as the repaint of the Cheetor we got as Tigatron. The only advantage to the former is the mold is stronger with the additional space in the Voyager budget.
That said, I would *love* a "toy accurate" Tigatron using the Kingdom Cheetor mold.
Foster
I think a Cheetor repaint of Kingdom Tigatron would have turned out much better than a Tigatron repaint of Kingdom Cheetor, as the concept art demonstrates. But happily, they made both as unique molds!
Novaxmaximal
definitely prefer what we got
Black Convoy
Robot mode concept art. Also, just a redeco of the Cheetor concept art now with a new head.
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Furnace
In all seriousness, this design would actually make for a cool fantasy creature. An arctic predator with habits similar to a snow leopard but with the speed of a cheetah and the stripes of a tiger.
Houndini
Well yeah, but clearly the goal was show accuracy, in which Tigatron is a pretty big boy. A Gen Selects repaint of Cheetor homaging the original Tigatron would be cool though.
Voytash78
It looks like he did in the Kingdom show because Beast Wars characters in the show were made based on only concept art for the figures, since that's all there was back then.
Novaxmaximal
well we can only wait for a MP rattrap
Verno
Kudos to Ken for these concept pieces. They've been wonderful to see, and I hope we see more of them.
Some do put the finished figures into an even starker light, but I guess I'll just have to wait a bit longer for these to be made into reality:
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GAUGE
OMG! YOU GUYS!!! IT'S THE LEGENDARY TIGEETA IN ALL IT'S GLORY!!! WE'VE FOUND IT AT LAST!!!
Novaxmaximal
this shows that polar claw's sacrifice had a reason
RacerCheetor
Requiem Prime
Well! Glad he got a few more revisions from that!