Yup, it's Torca, a Fuzor with the combined beast-mode of a whale and an elephant. In other words, he's basically Omega Supreme for Beast Wars in size, if they held to respective sizes. Still, even in the comic, he's pretty darn big, since half a dozen TFs are needed just to keep him in place.

 

http://www.tfu.info/1998/Maximal/Torca/torca.htm

I got the comic yesterday, the pre-beast mode Magmatron cover. a few questions and comments...

 

1. what exactly does Magmatron turn into before he arives on earth? i'm thinking three different war machines of some sort.

 

2. how in the hell are all those Maximals on the earth without the show maximals knowledge?

 

3. please tell me Furman has a good reason for jus tsticking in the fuzors... i mean, in the show, they point blank said the only reason for somebody to be a fuzor is because of stasis pod malfunctions. what are the odds that several different stasis pods malfunctioned?

to answer your questions I.S.T...

 

1)we dont really know, but my guess would be a Jet, Submarine and a Tank...those are pretty much Vehicle versions of what he has as beasts...

 

2)earth is a big place :P lol  or they are under the same spaceflux thingy that Magmatron is under

 

3)Forsure it makes sence! remember this is after all the sh!t happend in season 1 and 2, im suprised that not more pods were malfunctioning.  I mean for a Fuzor to be created just the scanners need to be malfunctioning...the might still have all there data tracks

 

hope that helps

2. how in the hell are all those Maximals on the earth without the show maximals knowledge?

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maybe they will find out, but the conclusion ties it up so it won't affect the show.

maybe - like the G1 comics - its not in continuity.

2. how in the hell are all those Maximals on the earth without the show maximals knowledge?

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did you see how many pods were ejected in the first ep of Beast Wars. And the only activated protoforms were Black Arachnia, Inferno, Airrazor, Tigatron, Optimus' transmetal body, Silverbolt, Quickstrike, Rampage, Transmutate, and Dinobot II. That's only 10 protoforms, out of the dozens we saw launched outta the Axalon.

2. how in the hell are all those Maximals on the earth without the show maximals knowledge?

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did you see how many pods were ejected in the first ep of Beast Wars. And the only activated protoforms were Black Arachnia, Inferno, Airrazor, Tigatron, Optimus' transmetal body, Silverbolt, Quickstrike, Rampage, Transmutate, and Dinobot II. That's only 10 protoforms, out of the dozens we saw launched outta the Axalon.

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:thumb

I thoguht the comic implied that they were sent there along with Razorbeast....

 

though not as predacon agents, obviously.

no, those guys are from the pods from the Axalon, they weren't brought by Magmatron. The Predacons that came with Magmatron and Razorbeast were seen on Cybertron when Magmatron was giving his big speech. All the guys that emerged from stasis pods at the end of the issue were from the Axalon. I liked seeing Ramulus, cuz he was also in the BotCon Wreckers comic. He was pissed at Primal for heading back to Cybertron without him and the other pods left behind.

Torca looks cool. A killer whale/elephant. Thats going to be mighty!