Eggbot (BW)

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Eggbot is a Maximal from the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Or, as he was known in the early translations, "Robotnikbot".

Despite being one of the "Egg Beasts", 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

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Ask Vector Prime

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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. Ask Vector Prime, 29 September 2015

Toys

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Beast Wars

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  • Eggbot (Egg Beast, 1998)
  • ID number: EC-3
  • Known designers: Masaki Maruyama (original tooling){{#if: |, {{{2}}}}}
A late (and low-run) addition to the Takara 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 retooling of the 1988 Takara [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Mashin Hero Wataru|{{#if:||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 and Kiss Players Star Dust and was also proposed for a Generations Vector Sigma accessory, but that was not produced. It also served as the model for a comic background character.
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