Eggbot (BW)

2024-11-29T18:10:18Z

RyuTheBuizel: Added a Bakugan joke to the second image's caption.

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{{disambig2|the Maximal from ''Beast Wars''|the eggs from ''Angry Birds''|Eggbot (AB)}}
:''Eggbot is a [[Maximal]] from the [[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:BW-art Eggbot.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Or, as he was known in the early translations, "Robotnikbot".]]
Despite being one of the "[[Egg Beast]]s", '''Eggbot''' (エッグボット ''Eggubotto'') does not actually possess a [[beast mode]]. Regardless, he is remarkably brave for his small size and excels in hand-to-hand combat.

Like his fellow Egg Beasts, Eggbot is among the oldest operational Maximals.

==Fiction==
===Ask Vector Prime===
Eggbot was a sleeper agent of [[Unicron]], inserted into Maximal society. Like all the Egg Beasts, his alternate forms bore many similarities to Unicron's own structure. Unicron would reuse his design for the [[Sparkbot]] [[Star Dust]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 29 September 2015}}
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==Toys==
===''Beast Wars''===
[[File:BW-toy Eggbot.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Spin Master must be furious they didn't think of this first.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Eggbot''' (Egg Beast, 1998)}}</ul>
:*''ID number:'' '''EC-3'''
{{toydesigner|[[Masaki Maruyama]] (original tooling)}}

: A late (and low-run) addition to the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' line, Eggbot transforms from a mechanical sphere (ostensibly an "egg" mode) into a robot. He is cast in translucent blue plastic except for a handful of chromed and die-cast parts. He has a non-removable keychain attached to his [[robot mode]] back (well, you ''can'' remove it if you bend the metal attaching ring).

: All of the Eggbots demand a higher price tag on the secondary market than one would expect at first, thanks to their late and relatively limited release.

: This mold is a [[retool]]ing of the 1988 Takara ''{{w|Mashin Hero Wataru}}'' "Jakira" toy, giving him a new loop for his attached keychain. The ''Wataru'' toy was itself a retool of the ''[[Micro Change]]'' Meteor Robo "MC-14 Metal Man" toy, which also had a base and two additional guns excluded from all later iterations of the mold.

: This mold was also used to make [[Dark Eggbot#Toys|Dark Eggbot]] and ''[[Transformers: Kiss Players (toyline)|Kiss Players]]'' [[Star Dust#Toys|Star Dust]] and was also proposed for a ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' [[Vector Sigma#Generations (Japan)|Vector Sigma]] accessory, but that was not produced. It also served as the model for a [[Metal Man|comic background character]].

::* ''[http://tfu.info/1998/Cybertron/EggRobo/eggrobo.htm More information on Eggbot at TFU.info]''

[[Category:Beast Wars Maximals]]
[[Category:Japanese-original Transformers]]
[[Category:Unicron-related characters]]

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