Title:
Night Viper
Description:
Night Viper (Basic, 2000)
Part of the third wave of Beast Machines Basics, Night Viper transforms into a midnight blue, blue-gray, red, and yellow technorganic cobra. His snake-mode head is spring-loaded; pressing on the clear-yellow part of the hood directly behind it launches it forward slightly, opening his jaws to bite. The sides of his hood form arm-mounted shields in robot mode, the right shield being armed with a flip-out scythe blade. His left shield contains his spark crystal.
Notes
Ironically, not a member of Cobra.
Night Viper’s control art depicts him as having a melee weapon hidden in each shield. The right contains a scythe as in the finished product, while the left was designed to have an anchor-shaped blade. The reasons for the omission are purely conjecture; possibly it was cut to make room for the hidden spark crystal, or for simple budgetary concerns.
Cobras are not vipers, being in entirely separate taxonomic families. It would be like calling Tigatron "striped dog”.
Night Viper shares his name with the Cobra Night Fighter, codenamed Night-Viper, which was released in the G.I Joe toyline in 1989.
Night Viper was originally planned to be a Predacon who joined Optimus Primal’s team of anti-Vehicon Maximals, but for unspecified reasons, possibly that a "heroic” Predacon in Beast Machines would have been too complicated for the toy bio, the Predacon background was dropped. It is still evident, however, in Night Viper’s reptilian alt-mode, a trait more characteristic of Predacons than Maximals.
Over a decade later, the Predacon origin was picked up and utilized for the Beast Wars: Uprising incarnation of Night Viper.
Part of the third wave of Beast Machines Basics, Night Viper transforms into a midnight blue, blue-gray, red, and yellow technorganic cobra. His snake-mode head is spring-loaded; pressing on the clear-yellow part of the hood directly behind it launches it forward slightly, opening his jaws to bite. The sides of his hood form arm-mounted shields in robot mode, the right shield being armed with a flip-out scythe blade. His left shield contains his spark crystal.
Notes
Ironically, not a member of Cobra.
Night Viper’s control art depicts him as having a melee weapon hidden in each shield. The right contains a scythe as in the finished product, while the left was designed to have an anchor-shaped blade. The reasons for the omission are purely conjecture; possibly it was cut to make room for the hidden spark crystal, or for simple budgetary concerns.
Cobras are not vipers, being in entirely separate taxonomic families. It would be like calling Tigatron "striped dog”.
Night Viper shares his name with the Cobra Night Fighter, codenamed Night-Viper, which was released in the G.I Joe toyline in 1989.
Night Viper was originally planned to be a Predacon who joined Optimus Primal’s team of anti-Vehicon Maximals, but for unspecified reasons, possibly that a "heroic” Predacon in Beast Machines would have been too complicated for the toy bio, the Predacon background was dropped. It is still evident, however, in Night Viper’s reptilian alt-mode, a trait more characteristic of Predacons than Maximals.
Over a decade later, the Predacon origin was picked up and utilized for the Beast Wars: Uprising incarnation of Night Viper.
Theme:
Beast Machines
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2000
Country:
United States
Series:
Beast Machines
Model Number:
Multi Colored Beast
Date Added:
2021-12-19 18:44:06
Automatic Estimated Date:
2024-01-25
Date Added:
2021-12-19 18:44:06
