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Day 184: Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp

There are so many Japanese-only releases of Beast Wars figures that are basically redecos of the US toys that I have to make a choice here on the daily bot front. Do I draw all the repaints, even if the differences are minimal? Where do I draw the line? I haven't fully decided yet, but a good rule of thumb for now is if the redecos are supposed to be different characters, then it's worth doing another drawing. But I may combine some characters so I'm not spending too much time illustrating a difference that ends up being invisible in grayscale art anyway.

That's a long way of saying, here are Lio Junior (a lion), Santon (an elephant) and Skywarp (a hawk); which you'll recognize as previously appearing here as Prowl, Ironhide and Silverbolt. These Japanese incarnations from 1998 were intended to be different characters than their US counterparts, though they look very much the same. 





 

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