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: Dark Eggbird transforms from a mechanical sphere (ostensibly an "egg" mode) into a robotic hawk. He is cast in purple translucent plastic except for a handful of chromed and die-cast parts. He has a non-removable keychain attached to his beast-mode breast (well, you ''can'' remove it if you bend the metal attaching ring). | : Dark Eggbird transforms from a mechanical sphere (ostensibly an "egg" mode) into a robotic hawk. He is cast in purple translucent plastic except for a handful of chromed and die-cast parts. He has a non-removable keychain attached to his beast-mode breast (well, you ''can'' remove it if you bend the metal attaching ring). | ||
: This mold is a [[retool]]ing of the [[Micro Change]] MC-16 toy, giving him a new loop for his attached keychain. | |||
: The original [[Micro Change]] toy also included a base and 2 guns that could be mounted in either configuration. These were excluded for all Transformers releases. | |||
: The Egg Beasts were late (and low-run) additions to the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' line, and as such demand a higher price tag than one would expect at first. | : The Egg Beasts were late (and low-run) additions to the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' line, and as such demand a higher price tag than one would expect at first. | ||
: This mold was also used to make [[Eggbird]] and ''[[Transformers: Kiss Players (toyline)|Kiss Players]]'' [[Zangetsu]]. | : This mold was also used to make [[Eggbird]] and ''[[Transformers: Kiss Players (toyline)|Kiss Players]]'' [[Zangetsu]]. | ||
Revision as of 14:02, 4 August 2018
- Dark Eggbird is a Predacon from the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Dark Eggbird (ダークエッグバード Dāku Eggubādo) is the airborne Predacon Egg Beast, able to transform from a stealthy and lethal hawk mode into, uh, a ball. Presumably he has found this worthwhile as part of his role as one of Megatron's top saboteurs.
Like his fellow Egg Beasts, he is among the oldest of the Predacons.
Fiction
Ask Vector Prime
Dark Eggbird was a sleeper agent of Unicron, inserted into Predacon 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 Zangetsu. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/29
Toys
Beast Wars
- Dark Eggbird (Egg Beast, 1998)
- ID number: ED-2
- Dark Eggbird transforms from a mechanical sphere (ostensibly an "egg" mode) into a robotic hawk. He is cast in purple translucent plastic except for a handful of chromed and die-cast parts. He has a non-removable keychain attached to his beast-mode breast (well, you can remove it if you bend the metal attaching ring).
- This mold is a retooling of the Micro Change MC-16 toy, giving him a new loop for his attached keychain.
- The original Micro Change toy also included a base and 2 guns that could be mounted in either configuration. These were excluded for all Transformers releases.
- The Egg Beasts were late (and low-run) additions to the Takara Beast Wars line, and as such demand a higher price tag than one would expect at first.
- This mold was also used to make Eggbird and Kiss Players Zangetsu.
