>>11296311the stakes are CONSTANTLY lowered in transformers
>the planet is in danger because of megatron>multiple planets are in danger of being eaten by Unicron>all life in the universe is in danger from the hate plague> this time just Cybertron's in danger from being turned into a spaceship or something (rebirth)>the timeline is in danger (beast wars)>just cybertron is in danger (beast Machines)The danger just needs to be relative to the feats performed by the main characters.
as for the plot of Transtech, there wasn't one. None of the writers were given any briefs, there was simply the idea of everyone being vehicles again, even the beasts, and the toys having see through parts like imacs.
They were porting most of the Beast machines hero cast, but Optimus was definitely separate from Primal, all the concepts except the very last one lacked any face. Also, people *say* it has a gorilla like face, but that's not really true. It's just a face. a square grill instead of a mouth, a flat nose, it's really just the face kind of reminds people of Primals' robot mode face, but the reality is, that's just the designers aesthetic. Draxhall Jump did both the beast machines design concepts and the transtech ones, then Mainframe took those and polished them up for Beast Machines.
There was no guarantee that if Mainframe was given the next show that they would have gone ahead and wrote it to connect with Beast Machines.