Title:
Cheetor Transmetal 1
Description:
Cheetor (Transmetal Deluxe, 1999)
Takara ID number: C-42
Accessories: Tail-whip
As with most first-wave Transmetals toys, Cheetor’s beast mode is entirely robotic, but his robot mode has organic elements in its design. In beast mode, two rocket boosters can be flipped out (and extended, which the cartoon failed to show) of the sides of the cat torso to create a "flight mode”, plus his tail rotates 180 to provide a "stabilizer” fin. In robot mode, his removable tail becomes a spiked whip, but he has no ranged weaponry, though you can put his two-fingered hands together to simulate the "gun” he used on the show. The toy suffers from a design flaw where the breast plate’s hinges that holds both arms up in beast mode suffers from a lot of stress, and, over time, can’t hold up the cheetah head properly anymore.
The Takara Beast Wars Metals release of the Transmetal Cheetor toy features a number of small but notable changes from the Hasbro version. The most immediately noticeable is that the "CHEETOR” tampograph on his beast mode was changed to "CYBERTRON” and the Maximal faction symbol. The other changes make Takara’s version closer to Cheetor’s show appearance than the Hasbro version: green robot mode eyes (Hasbro’s version has light blue), painted cheetah teeth (Hasbro’s are unpainted), and the gray plastic is more blue-hued than the Hasbro version’s semi-French-gray.
There is at least one variant of Cheetor with a Maximal rubsign on his left flight-mode wing.
This mold was used as the basis for the non-toy character Cataclysm.
Takara ID number: C-42
Accessories: Tail-whip
As with most first-wave Transmetals toys, Cheetor’s beast mode is entirely robotic, but his robot mode has organic elements in its design. In beast mode, two rocket boosters can be flipped out (and extended, which the cartoon failed to show) of the sides of the cat torso to create a "flight mode”, plus his tail rotates 180 to provide a "stabilizer” fin. In robot mode, his removable tail becomes a spiked whip, but he has no ranged weaponry, though you can put his two-fingered hands together to simulate the "gun” he used on the show. The toy suffers from a design flaw where the breast plate’s hinges that holds both arms up in beast mode suffers from a lot of stress, and, over time, can’t hold up the cheetah head properly anymore.
The Takara Beast Wars Metals release of the Transmetal Cheetor toy features a number of small but notable changes from the Hasbro version. The most immediately noticeable is that the "CHEETOR” tampograph on his beast mode was changed to "CYBERTRON” and the Maximal faction symbol. The other changes make Takara’s version closer to Cheetor’s show appearance than the Hasbro version: green robot mode eyes (Hasbro’s version has light blue), painted cheetah teeth (Hasbro’s are unpainted), and the gray plastic is more blue-hued than the Hasbro version’s semi-French-gray.
There is at least one variant of Cheetor with a Maximal rubsign on his left flight-mode wing.
This mold was used as the basis for the non-toy character Cataclysm.
Theme:
Beast Wars
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
1999
Date Added:
2022-02-15 19:01:14
Date Added:
2022-02-15 19:01:14
