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[[File:BW-toy DarkEggbird.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Which mode do you think came first?]] | [[File:BW-toy DarkEggbird.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Which mode do you think came first?]] | ||
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-p1|'''Dark Eggbird''' (Egg Beast, 1998)}}</ul> | |||
:* ''ID number:'' '''ED-2''' | |||
{{toydesigner|[[Masaki Maruyama]] (original tooling)}} | {{toydesigner|[[Masaki Maruyama]] (original tooling)}} | ||
: 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). | : A late (and low-run) addition to the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' line, 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). | ||
: | : 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. | ||
: The | : This mold is a [[retool]]ing of the 1988 Takara ''{{w|Mashin Hero Wataru}}'' "Jakuro" toy, giving him a new loop for his attached keychain. The ''Wataru'' toy was itself a retool of the ''[[Micro Change]]'' "MC-16 Metal Hawk" 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 [[Eggbird#Toys|Eggbird]] and ''[[Transformers: Kiss Players (toyline)|Kiss Players]]'' [[Zangetsu#Toys|Zangetsu]]. | |||
: This mold was also used to make [[Eggbird]] and ''[[Transformers: Kiss Players (toyline)|Kiss Players]]'' [[Zangetsu]]. | |||
::*''[http://tfu.info/1998/Destron/DarkEggBird/darkeggbird.htm More information on Dark Eggbird at TFU.info]'' | ::*''[http://tfu.info/1998/Destron/DarkEggBird/darkeggbird.htm More information on Dark Eggbird at TFU.info]'' | ||
Latest revision as of 07:58, 13 February 2024
- 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
[edit]Ask Vector Prime
[edit]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
Generations Selects Special Comic
[edit]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 Eggbirds. Super Megatron comic 1
Toys
[edit]Beast Wars
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- Dark Eggbird (Egg Beast, 1998)
- ID number: ED-2
- Known designers: Masaki Maruyama (original tooling)
- A late (and low-run) addition to the Takara Beast Wars line, 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).
- 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 Mashin Hero Wataru "Jakuro" toy, giving him a new loop for his attached keychain. The Wataru toy was itself a retool of the Micro Change "MC-16 Metal Hawk" 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 Eggbird and Kiss Players Zangetsu.
