Dark Eggbird

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

All of his meat is dark meat.

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

Which mode do you think came first?

• 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).

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 retooling of the pre-Micro Change "Metal Hawk" toy, giving him a new loop for his attached keychain.

This mold was also used to make Eggbird and Kiss Players Zangetsu.

• More information on Dark Eggbird at TFU.info