#tf quickstrike

[suzieloveships]

This came to me in a curse vision at like 3am and wouldn't let me sleep even tho it makes no sense. Happy pride month I guess

[nonexistent-prime]

Sketches of some Beast Wars ships :p

I was going to add Tigertron and Airazor but the drawing looked so ass

Closeups:

[nukeli]

If Quickstrike was just a snake, which one should he be?

Crotalus concolor

Naja nivea

Voting ended onJul 12, 2025

Crotalus concolor

A rattlesnake, which could fit his wild west thing

Not African (where everybody landed and scanned their beast modes...)

Not sure how the transformation would really work, where do his arms and legs go. If his legs go together to become the tail and his other arm joins the neck and his torso was slimmer?

Not sure where bot mode's green bits would go.

Naja nivea

Cobra, like his tail was in canon

From Africa

Cobra's hood and face could become a poncho

Transformation could be based on Colada's?

Not sure where bot mode's green bits would go.

I think these species have colors closest to Quickstrike's gold-ish color.

[frankenwolf1564]

Age of the Primes Quickstrike

Here to help celebrate the 30th anniversary of Beast Wars, Quickstrike compliments fellow Fuzor Silverbolt after a bit of a break, and fills another gap in the shows cast.

Much like fellow Beast Era weirdo Sky-Byte’s update, Quickstrike proves to be a refinement of the original. Since there’s not a lot you fundamentally can change, you take what’s present and make it as good as you can. Now, that’s refinement of a basic bitch Basic class figure instead of something much larger and considerably more fiddly, but still, they made what the Kenner original offered as good as they could, adding plenty of finer points to touch up the experience.

I imagine further Transmetal updates will follow similar suit in that there won’t be many stark differences compared to what came before. Most of the designs introduced in seasons two and three of Beast Wars are super close to the toys, so if you want to make a new figure of the character from the show, you kind of just… make a better version of their old toy. Quickstrike shows this off in full force in a myriad of ways. First off: he’s not comprised nigh entirely of clear plastic. You can actually make out what he looks like, as opposed to being so transparent he gets lost in… himself. Opacity aside, the colors in general are delightful. The gold used for his chest and legs really pops with the bright teal.

Another notable shift from the original is a heavy reduction in ball joints. He keeps them for the cobra arm (and the scorpion head, more on that in a second) but his shoulders and hips are universal joints, his left arm gets two sets of mushroom pegs, and his thighs get one each. Most bends are now hinges, all of which are nice and tight, at least on my copy. It all lets him pull a pose or two! He’s got a very healthy range of movement, and doesn’t have too much trouble balancing. The cobra arm is obviously quite flexible, which is something that carries over to beast mode.

Transformation is a satisfyingly simple affair. Everything moves cleanly and slots nicely into place, with maybe the slightest exception of the shoulder pads. They very much need to be moved out of the way before the chest can come up (or down, going back to robot mode), but that’s not much of a problem and there’s still ample clearance. You don’t need to flex anything. It is pretty simple, though. Not that’s a bad thing, but what you see is what you get with Quickstrike. Kinda lays his Everything pretty bare. It’s an upgrade over the original for sure, but if you were hoping for a substantial shift you might end up a bit disappointed. Though, with how good the scorpion mode is, I can’t imagine why that feeling would persist.

The scorpion mode is fantastic, plain and simple. His legs can actually hold him up, and the head gets a good chunk of articulation thanks to the way it’s assembled. He’s overall very expressive for a beast former, the added points of movement on his face(s) giving you a lot of options on top of everything else. The scorpion head is on a ball jointed strut, letting you lift it up and swivel it around. The cobra head obviously keeps all the ball joints it had as an arm, but it can also open and close its mouth, which reveals/obscures a blast effect port. My only complaint is that he could have used an extra swivel below the. Like elbows but on a bug- It’s not a hugely limiting factor, very much not essential, but that additional range of movement would have been nice.

For his first new toy in… 28 years, Quickstrike makes a darn tootin good return. This sort of quality helps set the standard for modern Generations and proves why people love it so much. Now if only he weren’t shortpacked to one per case. Other “first new toy in decades” character and Quickstrike’s wave mate Sureshot got the same treatment… meanwhile the new Junkion repaint character Jalopy got two. What in tarnation is goin on over there?!?!

[elfdragon12]

Wait wait wait!

QUICKSTRIKE WAS IN THE TRANSFORMERS/MY LITTLE PONY CROSSOVER????!!!!!

[monstrosibee]

"There is NOTHIN' that crawls, walks, flies or swims that I'm afraid of!"

this dude is shaped in the mos RIDICULOUS way. i cant stand it. i couldnt stand it while i was drawing him

Art Tag | Commission Info | Kofi

[nonexistent-prime]

[suzieloveships]

Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Earthspark (Cartoon), Transformers: Beast Wars (Cartoon) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Nightshade Malto & Springer, Nightshade Malto & Tarantulas, Springer & Tarantulas (Transformers), BW Predacons team, Prowl/Tarantulas (Transformers) (background) Characters: Nightshade Malto, Springer (Transformers), Tarantulas (Transformers), Scorponok (Transformers), Quickstrike (Transformers), Inferno (Transformers), Waspinator (Transformers), Terrorsaur (Transformers), Rampage (Transformers), Transmutate (Transformers), Prowl shows up but mostly in flashbacks and at the very end, other characters are also mention Additional Tags: Found Family, unorthodox family dynamic, Siblings, No Plot/Plotless, or rather there is plot, back it is very thin and pretty much it is just a backgrond decoration for me to talk about my headcanons, There is like no contant of Springer and Nightshade being step siblings so I wrote this, this whole thing is just an exuse for me to talk about differences between Earth and Cybertron when it comes to families, Post-Canon, as in season 1 is canon and nothig else, my initial thought was "hey wouldn't it be cute if Nightshade met other Predacons and they told them they can scent Tarantulas on them", and it all went downhill from there, implied past mechpreg, it is also implied that Tarantulas is trans, in both earthly and cybertronian way, I myself love predacons with all my heart, but I thought it would be funny if Tarantulas just hated them for almost no reason, no beta we die like my happiness after season 4 air, english is not my first language, the lack of deep plot makes it hard to tag, most of this fic is just my headcanons being turn into paragraph, title from chosen family by rina sawayama, Family Fluff, Worldbuilding Summary:

While being stuck in space Nightshade thinks about their family, the whole family and also meets Tarantulas's old team.

 Basically I wanted to write something about my headcanons about the differences in family dynamic on Earth and on Cybertron, as well as the unusual reletionship the Terrans have with both and used Nightshade and Tarantulas's relationship as a main example. I like writing about charactes that have an unusual number of parents and an unorthodox family dynamic that come with that, it's a trope I really like