Nightscream - Transformers: Timelines

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Nightscream was among the characters originally proposed for the Transtech line up.

After the Beast Machines line ended, Hasbro planned a follow-up series called Transtech. The Transtech concept was a line intended to take Transformers to their most futuristic. Hasbro commissioned sets of designs from Draxhall Jump. The series was supposedly to bring back some of the characters who died in Beast Wars along with some characters from the original eighties cartoon series, all in new, techno-organic bodies, though with vehicle alternate modes instead of the animals used in Beast Machines. Many concept sketches and even a few toy prototypes were made, but Hasbro scrapped the idea in favor of bringing Car Robots to their markets as Transformers: Robots in Disguise.

Nightscream was mentioned in the Blackarachnia biography printed in issue #25 of the Transformers Collectors Club magazine. According to the biography this Nightscream was originally a Maximal who served in an army on an alternate Cybertron where the Maximals and Predacons rebelled from their controlling Autobot and Decepticon masters. He fled Cybertron with fellow Maximal Blackarachnia and the Predacons Scavenger and Immorticon in an experimental transwarp ship and ended up on Transtech Cybertron. Feeling like a prisoner on this Cybertron he joined up with Alpha Trion's group, who had Topspin transfer their sparks into the bodies of their Transtech counterparts.