Onyx Primal
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- Onyx Primal is both a Maximal and a Predacon from the Beast Wars era of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Fiction
BotCon 1998 "Visitations" live script reading
Voice Actor: Gary Chalk
Toys
Beast Wars
- Onyx Primal (Basic, 1996/1997)
- A redeco of the Basic-class Optimus Primal toy, Onyx transforms from a large vampire bat to robot mode with a one-step spring-loaded transformation. He has two scimitars, stored on the underside of his wings. He is notable for being the first Transformers convention-exclusive toy specifically cast in new plastic colors (the previous years' exclusive was only a repaint, using the same plastics as one of the retail versions of the mold).
- Two different versions of Onyx were available as BotCon 1996 exclusives. The standard version was available to attendees and pre-registrants. However, in a move never duplicated by later convention organizers, a "Dealer Exclusive" version of Onyx was available only to -of course- dealers. This version came in an almost solid-black box, and the only difference in the toy itself is the gold text "BOTCON '96 DEALER EXCLUSIVE" tampographed on his back.
- Reportedly, BotCon '96 organizers Men In Black had to have a metric buttload of Onyx Primals produced in order to have them at all, and as such ended up with a lot of overstock. So much that for their unofficial convention "TransCon '97", they offered attendees Onyx Primal again.
Trivia
- Onyx's change from Predacon to Maximal appears to have been a Hasbro-mandated one, due to the original use of the mold being a Maximal. This also resulted in the "Heroic Predacon" Sandstorm for BotCon 1999.
- Gary Chalk's voice for Onyx was based loosely on Jackie Gleason, to go along with Scott McNeil's Art Carney voice for Packrat.
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