Title:
Tigerhawk 1st
Description:
Tigerhawk (Transmetal 2 Ultra Class, 1999)
Japanese ID number: C-50
Beast Wars Tigerhawk transforms into half-robotic, half-organic, flying robot tiger-falcon thing. Yes. In beast mode, he is armed with "Hidden wing-tipped missiles”, feather projectiles very similar to the Fuzor Silverbolt’s, with spring-loaded switches to flip the wings forward, and flip-out missile launchers which activate when a lever on Tigerhawk’s back is pulled (which also moves the wings). Under his beast head is a small cockpit with a pilot’s chair.
Similar to Transmetal 2 Megatron, Tigerhawk features an aborted and undocumented vehicular "third mode”, which involves flipping him over to utilize the otherwise unexplained wheels on top of his wings and facing his cannon arm forward. The box and instructions opt to call the deployment of his vacuum-metalized bird helmet (or "Targeting Computer Battle Visor”) over his beast tiger head a third mode instead.
In robot mode, Tigerhawk has a decent level of articulation, though his elbow joints are rotated in such a way as to be not particularly useful.
Judging from his packaging art, it seems that along with Optimus Minor, Sonar, and Scarem, Tigerhawk was amongst the few Transmetals 2 that was intended to have the strange feature of having access to multiple limbs in robot mode... In this case, a second pair of arms formed by his rear beast mode legs.
A back-of-the-box graph for Tigerhawk gives technical designations to some of his robot mode parts. In addition to the already-mentioned "hidden wing-tip missiles” and "targeting computer battle visor,” they include "Blast-open thunder torpedoes,” "Ion-charged talons,” an "Accelerator beam-turret cannon” and "Multi-stage deployment wings."
Know that this figure was repurposed as a future body of Shattered Glass Ravage in Recordicons #20. Know also that this mold was later used to make 2003 Universe Razorclaw.
Japanese ID number: C-50
Beast Wars Tigerhawk transforms into half-robotic, half-organic, flying robot tiger-falcon thing. Yes. In beast mode, he is armed with "Hidden wing-tipped missiles”, feather projectiles very similar to the Fuzor Silverbolt’s, with spring-loaded switches to flip the wings forward, and flip-out missile launchers which activate when a lever on Tigerhawk’s back is pulled (which also moves the wings). Under his beast head is a small cockpit with a pilot’s chair.
Similar to Transmetal 2 Megatron, Tigerhawk features an aborted and undocumented vehicular "third mode”, which involves flipping him over to utilize the otherwise unexplained wheels on top of his wings and facing his cannon arm forward. The box and instructions opt to call the deployment of his vacuum-metalized bird helmet (or "Targeting Computer Battle Visor”) over his beast tiger head a third mode instead.
In robot mode, Tigerhawk has a decent level of articulation, though his elbow joints are rotated in such a way as to be not particularly useful.
Judging from his packaging art, it seems that along with Optimus Minor, Sonar, and Scarem, Tigerhawk was amongst the few Transmetals 2 that was intended to have the strange feature of having access to multiple limbs in robot mode... In this case, a second pair of arms formed by his rear beast mode legs.
A back-of-the-box graph for Tigerhawk gives technical designations to some of his robot mode parts. In addition to the already-mentioned "hidden wing-tip missiles” and "targeting computer battle visor,” they include "Blast-open thunder torpedoes,” "Ion-charged talons,” an "Accelerator beam-turret cannon” and "Multi-stage deployment wings."
Know that this figure was repurposed as a future body of Shattered Glass Ravage in Recordicons #20. Know also that this mold was later used to make 2003 Universe Razorclaw.
Theme:
Beast Wars
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
1999
Country:
United States
Series:
Beast Wars
Date Added:
2022-02-13 17:04:58
Automatic Estimated Date:
2024-01-25
Date Added:
2022-02-13 17:04:58
