Beast Wars: Uprising is unique in the constellation of Transformers continuites in that its massive cast is composed almost entirely of character designs are based on existing toys/characters with new color schemes, commonly referred to as virtual redecoes.
A respectable chunk of the Uprising cast is nonetheless composed of real toys originally from other Transformers toylines that have been repurposed by official fiction as Uprising characters.
[Red Text] Zapmaster (MM-D) leads the Iacon 5000 (Micro Division), entering circuit 41 with Six-Speed (MM-A), Free Wheeler (MM-A), and Hyperdrive (MM-D) close behind. Fans were stunned when Flat-Out (MM-A) blew a tire and crashed into Holi (MM-A) during circuit 37. In critical condition. --- Retro-rodeo champ Ironlunge (P) was convicted yesterday of Possession with Intent of 1.4 kilo-units of the circuit booster Syk. The investigating official, Road Police (MM-A): "The Assembly should throw the book at him." He made headlines when he wrestled a bucking brontobot to the ground, hanging on as it converted from beast to tank. Runner-up Battle Unicorn (M): "What else would-
[Purple Text] The Builder Assembly ruled that Cyberdroid refugees from the former colony Master are ineligible to participate in the Max/Pred League and must play in the Micro Division. Basketrek star Lug (CD-A) of the Triax Troublemakers: "I welcome the chance to give those Micros what-for!" Minimum Ambus (CD-A), Throttlebot Wanderers goalie: "We're much closer to Maximals in stature." Dante (CD-D), captain of the Corumcan Corrupturs Vollyblast team: "About damn time." --- Caliburn (MM-D) took the Micro-Weight Boxing Championship late Robbisol evening, bounding former champion Ironworks (MM-A) into brutal submission. Popular pugilist Star Upper (M) has already hurl-
Red: Riots erupting across the southern hemisphere tensions escalating paroxyms of violence surge
Green: memories of sorrow break upon the shore like waves on the beach like
Blue: 7 degree alignment correction
Red: -der Assembly paralyzed by inexperience
Green: too many years decades centuries of petty infighting of
Blue: quantum lens receiver experiences 1.224% power surge compensate
Green: might as well be walking on the sun
Red: Damaxus only the latest in a
Blue: increase the efficiency of the antimatter charm pulsar by 1.0339% if
Green: Llyra my wife my mother Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth, Lies festering
Red: Maximal interventionalism exceptionalism an existential thread that Predacon rivalry
Green: peasants of that land Wondering to lay
Red: seeking necessary redress but equilibrium too fragile
Blue: dorsal osmotic vacuum matrix miscalibration END OF LINE
Red: redeploy 113th Micromaster battalion to Simfur in anticipation of resistance
Blue: completely resynchronize the primary and auxiliary autosequencers in
Green: sunlight moonlight moonshine cocacola chocolate the touch of
Red: manufacturing output necessary for fullscale militarization beyond the capacity
Green: as we
Green: hearing the sound of a quiver in the empty air out the reins as
Blue: core sink 11925 experiences slight tenancy to overheat with redirection of coolant
Green: to feel the thrill of opening a gift
Red: that intercepted transmissions suggest a 12%
Red: to Grid Digilaut
Green: What men or gods are these What maidens loth What mad pursuit what struggle
Blue: to redirect emergency response nanoswarms to pullulate at coordinates 372 by 994, subsection 18
Red: as rebel assault gamma commences 3 solar
Green: by the ocean, it was so dismal
Red: Gamma thrust now 92.3% likely in the next 10 cycles vulnerable means of ingress include sewage linkage energy conduits optic port gravity relay bundles
Blue: energy reserves insufficient for full scale
Red: warning! Optical breach, dexter, response team to alert status deploy to primary and secondary vertical trunks
Green: youre in the jungle baby you gonna die
Blue: 39.2 kilounits of trans, aluminum required from synthesizer banks 11 to 14 reroute sensor
Green: tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned END OF LINE
Blue: delta and sigma regions experiencing ongoing oxidation damage (fire) prep trans. cog for minlevel internal spin
Red: energon reserves for first responders critically low
Green: [fi]tted to the sphere Our missiles always make too short an arc
Red: Mental penetration of Predacon designated Buzzclaw now 17% reiterate request to Builder Assembly to release energon reserves for Micromaster reserve forces
Blue: asymetrical multitronic ca-
Red: -[ana]lysis of strategy indicates anomalous behavior
Green: the angel begged permission
Blue: damage of relays 3447 and 3472 prevent accurate assessment and direction of nano repair circuitry END OF LINE
Green: the start not so out of reach for Lio Convoy as for us
Red: [pen]etration of Predacon designated Buzzclaw now 100% Predacon designated SerKet was the key
Green: all you need is love
Blue: fire suppressing systems overwhelmed initiating O2 lockdown END OF LINE
Green: Olin how could you turn out so different from Galen your twin always Scor-
Red: [po]rts 1, 3 not found retrying socket error 114 ports 1, 3 not found retrying socket error 114 ports 1, 3 not found retrying socket error 114 ports 1, 3 not found
Given that this story is allegorical in its nature, surging back and forward through time, it is nearly impossible to give a traditional cast list. As such, this list is our best attempt at deciphering it, and may not be fully accurate.
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
The humble handful of toys created with the explicit intent of tying into the Uprising storyline were released through Fun Publications' Transformers Collector's Club label and the 2015 and 2016 Botcon conventions.
Like othercollector imprints of its ilk, Beast Wars: Uprising conscripts figures from across the brand to fill out its cast. Each toy's franchise of origin is given parentheses.
Beast Wars: Uprising is somewhat infamous for its singularly aggressive use of real world molds in fictional color schemes, commonly referred to as "virtual redecoes." Characters retain their traditional color schemes and the commandeered molds are listed in parenthesis
