Title:
Rattrap 1st
Description:
Rattrap (Basic Class, 1996/1997)
Takara ID number: C-5
Accessories: 2-part pistol
Part of the first wave of Beast Wars Basic toys, Rattrap transforms from a large rat to robot mode with a spring-action, one-step transformation activated by pulling up on the base of his tail. His beast mode "shell” halves each hide a part of his handgun.
Initial release of Hasbro Rattrap came on a "rocky bubble” style card, which was quickly replaced with a "smooth bubble” style card in wave 2. Rattrap shipped on both styles of card, but the rocky-bubble version is rarer, and commands a higher price on the secondary market, if keeping toys in rare-ish packaging is your particular collecting "thing”.
In Japan, "Rattle” was similarly released in the first wave of product in July 1997, and was basically identical to the Hasbro version. However, in January 1998, many first-wave toys were re-released with altered decoes to make them more show-like. For Rattrap, this mainly meant his robot mode head got a humongous glob of shiny copper paint (that didn’t really match his copper plastic in tone). This copper was also used on his hands. His beast mode eyes were changed from yellow to red, and dark gray paint was added to his rat nose, although oddly the paint operations on his rodent teeth were dropped altogether.
This mold was also used to make Packrat.
Takara ID number: C-5
Accessories: 2-part pistol
Part of the first wave of Beast Wars Basic toys, Rattrap transforms from a large rat to robot mode with a spring-action, one-step transformation activated by pulling up on the base of his tail. His beast mode "shell” halves each hide a part of his handgun.
Initial release of Hasbro Rattrap came on a "rocky bubble” style card, which was quickly replaced with a "smooth bubble” style card in wave 2. Rattrap shipped on both styles of card, but the rocky-bubble version is rarer, and commands a higher price on the secondary market, if keeping toys in rare-ish packaging is your particular collecting "thing”.
In Japan, "Rattle” was similarly released in the first wave of product in July 1997, and was basically identical to the Hasbro version. However, in January 1998, many first-wave toys were re-released with altered decoes to make them more show-like. For Rattrap, this mainly meant his robot mode head got a humongous glob of shiny copper paint (that didn’t really match his copper plastic in tone). This copper was also used on his hands. His beast mode eyes were changed from yellow to red, and dark gray paint was added to his rat nose, although oddly the paint operations on his rodent teeth were dropped altogether.
This mold was also used to make Packrat.
Theme:
Beast Wars
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
1996
Date Added:
2022-02-15 19:43:57
Date Added:
2022-02-15 19:43:57
