Title:
Blackarachnia
Description:
Blackarachnia (Deluxe Class, 1996 / 1997)
Takara ID number: D-8
Accessories: Launcher, 4 leg-missiles
Part of the third wave of Beast Wars Deluxes, Blackarachnia is a redeco of the Tarantulas mold, transforming into a rather generic-looking organic spider. She features a removable spring-loaded launcher hidden in her beast mode abdomen, which can be "held” in her claws by plugging it into holes in her forearms. This launcher nominally fires the "grappling hook” attached to Blackarachnia’s abdomen by a string, but it can also fire her front four beast mode legs, designed to be removed and used as ammunition. Like all first-year Beast Wars Deluxes, the robot mode head has both a "robot” face and a "mutant” face; Blackarachnia has always been depicted in fiction using the "robot” one (or a rough approximation thereof).
The Takara release of the toy (coincidentally also in the third wave of the Takara line) has numerous color differences from the Hasbro version, but they are of dubious merit as far as making her more "show-accurate” go. The bright green of the Hasbro version’s forearms is replaced with dull silver, while the brighter purple is replaced with a darker, more desaturated purple. These colors changes exactly match those done to the Takara release of Buzz Saw; similar changes to the previous mold-characters Tarantulas and Waspinator indicate the spider and wasp molds might have been at least partially gang-molded. Paint-wise, her dark copper paint is replaced with a brighter gold. Her robot mode facemask is painted gold, which is closer to the show model... but her face beneath is black with gold eyes (instead of gold with black eyes), and she inexplicably gains a new painted-black forehead crest, where the show model has gold. Japanese catalogues showed a figure with a gold face and black eyes; it is unknown why this was changed for the released figure.
This toy has the distinction of being the first toy of a female Transformer released at retail by Hasbro, though she was neither the first retail female Transformers toy ever, or even the first female Transformers toy released by Hasbro, having been beaten to both by Minerva (by Takara in 1988) and Nightracer (a BotCon 1995 exclusive) respectively.
Takara ID number: D-8
Accessories: Launcher, 4 leg-missiles
Part of the third wave of Beast Wars Deluxes, Blackarachnia is a redeco of the Tarantulas mold, transforming into a rather generic-looking organic spider. She features a removable spring-loaded launcher hidden in her beast mode abdomen, which can be "held” in her claws by plugging it into holes in her forearms. This launcher nominally fires the "grappling hook” attached to Blackarachnia’s abdomen by a string, but it can also fire her front four beast mode legs, designed to be removed and used as ammunition. Like all first-year Beast Wars Deluxes, the robot mode head has both a "robot” face and a "mutant” face; Blackarachnia has always been depicted in fiction using the "robot” one (or a rough approximation thereof).
The Takara release of the toy (coincidentally also in the third wave of the Takara line) has numerous color differences from the Hasbro version, but they are of dubious merit as far as making her more "show-accurate” go. The bright green of the Hasbro version’s forearms is replaced with dull silver, while the brighter purple is replaced with a darker, more desaturated purple. These colors changes exactly match those done to the Takara release of Buzz Saw; similar changes to the previous mold-characters Tarantulas and Waspinator indicate the spider and wasp molds might have been at least partially gang-molded. Paint-wise, her dark copper paint is replaced with a brighter gold. Her robot mode facemask is painted gold, which is closer to the show model... but her face beneath is black with gold eyes (instead of gold with black eyes), and she inexplicably gains a new painted-black forehead crest, where the show model has gold. Japanese catalogues showed a figure with a gold face and black eyes; it is unknown why this was changed for the released figure.
This toy has the distinction of being the first toy of a female Transformer released at retail by Hasbro, though she was neither the first retail female Transformers toy ever, or even the first female Transformers toy released by Hasbro, having been beaten to both by Minerva (by Takara in 1988) and Nightracer (a BotCon 1995 exclusive) respectively.
Theme:
Beast Wars
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
1996
Country:
United States
Series:
Beast Wars
Date Added:
2022-02-20 14:21:10
Date Added:
2022-02-20 14:21:10
