>>6890599The gimmick of Beast Wars Neo is all unconventional or borderline cute animals vs deadly, vicious looking dinos. Almost all the new Maximal toys are animals Hasbro probably vetoed using in the US toyline because they didn't think they'd have appeal to American kids, but Takara wanted to try doing.
The cyberbeasts are really cool, though. Sort of a precursor to transmetal II; Galvatron's spark crystal also inspired the gimmick for the TMIIs.Also, its pretty cool that between BWII and Neo, basically every non-show Beast Wars mold got an animated appearance.