Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers Seal Retsuden

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Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers Seal Retsuden (ビーストウォーズII 超生命体トランスフォーマー シール烈伝 Beast Wars II: Chō Seimeitai Transformer Seal Retsuden) is one of the Seal Retsuden series of stickers published by Amada. They came to market in the first half of 1998 and were sold in mystery packs of ten.

There are a 102 stickers in total to collect, which are numbered and divided in three types of increasing rarity. The first 75 stickers are normal (ノーマル), the next 18 are metal (メタル), and the final 9 are gold (ゴールド). The final 6 normal stickers, the metal stickers, and the gold stickers are complementary and distinct from the first 69 stickers in several ways. For starters, it's only the first 69 stickers that have Tech Specs on the front and bios on the backs, while the remaining stickers are limited to the franchise, character name, and character function. The first 69 stickers depict the toys in small dioramas and for the most part come in sequential sets of two, with one sticker showing the robot mode and the other the alternate mode. Galvatron and Bigmos have three stickers to accommodate their third modes and combiners have no alternate modes to show. Starscream and BB uniquely share their stickers and there is no separate one for the Formation Scream. Stickers #70 and #71 are dedicated to the two main factions as represented by a selection of drawn characters. The final 31 stickers reuse package art and therefore the individual Seacons, who were sold as a God Neptune giftset and never received separate package art, are not featured in this set.

For the Seal Retsuden branding, the bios on the stickers are quite extensive. Not only is the entire back filled, two or three stickers of one character have different bios printed on them. The robot mode stickers have text more related to the characters and the alternate mode stickers have text more related to their powers.

The stickers are possibly the only publication that displays the names of the Beast Wars II cast in Latin script, although they are not entirely reliable; for instance, "Dirge" is rendered as "Darge".

Gameplay

Like most collectible cards, there is a game associated with the normal stickers as printed on the back of the mystery packs, although it's not much of a game. Each of the first 69 stickers has the standard Tech Specs of strength, intelligence, speed, endurance, rank, courage, firepower, and skill printed on the bottom. The sum of the numbers assigned to these stats is depicted in the upper right corner as their POW. or total ability. The first rule proposed is that players each present a sticker of their choosing and whoever has the sticker with the highest total ability wins. The second rule proposed is to play rock-paper-scissors and who wins gets to pick a stat which number is to determine the winner.

Stickers

Normal #001 Lio Convoy (robot mode) #002 Lio Convoy (beast mode) #003 Apache (robot mode) #004 Apache (beast mode) #005 Bighorn (robot mode) #006 Bighorn (beast mode) #007 Tasmania Kid (robot mode) #008 Tasmania Kid (beast mode) #009 Scuba (brobot mode) #010 Scuba (beast mode) #011 Diver (robot mode) #012 Diver (beast mode) #013 Bigmos (robot mode) #014 Bigmos (beast mode) #015 Bigmos (beast mode) #016 Powerhug (robot mode) #017 Powerhug (beast mode) #018 Tombot (robot mode) #019 Tombot (beast mode) #020 Mantis (robot mode) #021 Mantis (beast mode) #022 Drill Nuts (robot mode) #023 Drill Nuts (beast mode) #024 Scissor Boy (robot mode) #025 Scissor Boy (beast mode)	#026 DJ (robot mode) #027 DJ (beast mode) #028 Motorarm (robot mode) #029 Motorarm (beast mode) #030 Gimlet (robot mode) #031 Gimlet (beast mode) #032 Tripredacus #033 Lio Junior (robot mode) #034 Lio Junior (beast mode) #035 Skywarp (robot mode) #036 Skywarp (beast mode) #037 Santon (robot mode) #038 Santon (beast mode) #039 Magnaboss #040 Galvatron (robot mode) #041 Galvatron (machine mode) #042 Galvatron (mode 3) #043 Megastorm (robot mode) #044 Megastorm (machine mode) #045 Starscream & BB (robot mode) #046 Starscream & BB (machine mode) #047 Darge (robot mode) #048 Darge (machine mode) #049 Thrust (robot mode) #050 Thrust (machine mode)	#051 Autostinger (robot mode) #052 Autostinger (machine mode) #053 Autocrusher (robot mode) #054 Autocrusher (machine mode) #055 Autojetter (robot mode) #056 Autojetter (machine mode) #057 Autolauncher (robot mode) #058 Autolauncher (machine mode) #059 Halfshell (robot mode) #060 Halfshell (mecha-beast mode) #061 Squlle (robot mode) #062 Squlle (mecha-beast mode) #063 Sealagon (robot mode) #064 Sealagon (mecha-beast mode) #065 Terrormander (robot mode) #066 Terrormander (mecha-beast mode) #067 Sea Phantom (robot mode) #068 Sea Phantom (mecha-beast mode) #069 God Neptune #070 Cybertron #071 Destron #072 Autolauncher #073 Autojetter #074 Autocrusher #075 Autostinger
Metal #076 Thrust #077 Darge #078 BB #079 Scissor Boy #080 Drill Nuts #081 Mantis #082 Tombot #083 Powerhug #084 Bigmos	#085 Gimlet #086 Motorarm #087 DJ #088 Santon #089 Skywarp #090 Lio Junior #091 Diver #092 Scuba #093 Tasmania Kid	Gold #094 God Neptune #095 Starscrem #096 Megastorm #097 Galvaton #098 Tripredacus #099 Magnaboss #100 Bighorn #101 Apache #102 Lio Convoy