Dark Eggbot

Dark Eggbot is a Predacon Egg Beast from the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Note: On his packaging, Dark Eggbot is incorrectly depicted as being capable of pooping kana.

Despite belonging to the group of Cybertronians called the "Egg Beasts", Dark Eggbot (ダークエッグボット Dāku Eggubotto) does not actually possess a beast mode. He does, however, have a fiendishly complex and calculating processing center which he uses to devise evil plots and nefarious acts of espionage against the Maximals. How his transformation into a ball helps him carry them out is unknown, but if it's good enough for Samus Aran...

Like his fellow Egg Beasts, he is among the oldest operational Predacons.

Fiction

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Dark Eggbot was present at the Forge when Megatron tore off Emirate Xeon's head and presented it to the crowd. The War Within #2

Ask Vector Prime

Dark Eggbot 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 Star Dust. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/29

Generations Selects Special Comic

In 2011, Unicron fought against the combined Autobot and Decepticon attempt to seal him into the Triple Z Point by reconstructing himself from a cadre of disciples that included Dark Eggbots. Super Megatron comic 1

Toys

Beast Wars

Dr. Eggman’s new Death Egg left much to be desired.

• Dark Eggbot (Egg Beast, 1998)
  • ID number: ED-3

Dark Eggbot transforms from a mechanical sphere (ostensibly an "egg" mode) into a robot. He is cast in translucent black 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).

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 is a keychain-loop-adding retooling of the 1988 Takara Mashin Hero Wataru "Jakira" toy, which is itself a new-torso-and-head retooling of the pre-Transformers Takara Micro Change Meteor Robo "MC-14 Metal Man" toy. Whew! The original Micro Change version of the mold included a base and two guns that could be mounted in either configuration, which were excluded for all subsequent Mashin Hero Wataru and Transformers releases.

This mold was also used to make Eggbot and Kiss Players Star Dust.

• More information on Dark Eggbot at TFU.info