The Beast Machines TV series gave us 4 main Predacon/Vehicon characters and the rest of the time we were just given standard drones which were basically the same figure. The toys were pretty much the same in that respect and we got figures like what appeared in the TV show but the main generals Tankor, Thrust and Jetstorm all got toy upgrades and became newer looking characters.

Tankor now looks nothing like his show counter-part and instead he now looks more menacing and has legs and feet and a different face than compared to the Tank Drone version which looks exactly like how Tankor does on the show. It’s rather strange as Jetstorm was sold as an Ultra and also as a Basic with his Drones being slightly repainted a lighter blue color and being renamed as Sonic-Attack-Jets. Thrust was pretty much show accurate but had to be modified slightly because he couldn’t balance on one wheel and had to be forced to look like he was some sort of wheel chair accident victim.

Tankor's vehicle mode looks almost like how his show representation looks but with a more upgraded stylization. Tankor still has the robot type face in vehicle mode and his huge mounted cannon as well. The front of the vehicle now has claws (Tankor's fists) which act as claws for the vehicle mode and also the top section of the vehicle mode has transparent plastic on the base which can be flipped upwards revealing that as well as the grabbing claws there are also two deadly spiked razor blades which will crush anything unfortunate enough to get caught in Tankor's way.

The back section of the vehicle mode has a small red holster which is basically used for rotating the eye section in the head piece of Tankor's vehicle mode. In the cartoon show we saw that Tankor's eye would move from side to side and it appears that this feature has also been added to the upgraded toy design.

Robot mode looks very different from the look of the cartoon show as now instead of tank tracks it seems that Tankor has legs and feet now. The arms are also very different from the cartoon show versions as while Tankor has kept the claws for fists it seems that these new claws look very different from the cartoon shows and another extra added feature is that these arms have spiked razor blade saws attached to the arms sections themselves.

Elbow and knee sections bend and Tankor is able to rotate his head a complete 360 and the waist section is also able to rotate as well which makes this figure fantastic for pose purposes. The figure feels just right weight size and doesn’t feel to heavy in places and to light in others.

Tankor came boxed as a ‘Mega’ and was packaged in the standard Beast Machines packaging which consisted of the toy being displayed in vehicle mode with a clear plastic front bubble. The back of the Packaging had some detail on the figures Bio and also a picture of robot and vehicle mode. Side of the packaging had images of other Beast Machines Maximals and Vehicons available in the line. The figure came with his instructions but sadly nothing else.

If you want a show accurate version of Beast Machines Tankor then your going to have to purchase the smaller Tank-Drone version of this figure. While the new upgraded look and design of this ‘Mega’ Tankor may not be show accurate there’s no denying that this toy is a fantastic figure to any collection and considering how poor a lot of the figures in Beast Machines were then is figure stands out from the crowd.