Eggbot (BW)

This article is about the Maximal from Beast Wars. For the eggs from Angry Birds, see Eggbot (AB).

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

Ask Vector Prime

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, 29/9/2015

Toys

Beast Wars

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

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).

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 Dark Eggbot and Kiss Players Star Dust.

• More information on Eggbot at TFU.info