Title:
Terrorsaur 2nd
Description:
Terrorsaur (Basic Class, 1996)
Takara ID number: D-5
Takara release date: July 1997 (standard deco), January 1998 (redeco)
Accessories: Pistol
Part of the first wave of Beast Wars toys in both Hasbro and Takara markets, Terrorsaur transforms from an organic Pteranodon to robot mode with a spring-loaded mostly-one-step transformation, activated by pulling back on his beast-mode head. (His hands and feet need to be folded out separately.) His handgun folds up to store inside the empty area behind his robot mode head, tucking away neatly in beast mode.
As a first-wave figure in the US, Terrorsaur initially shipped on cards with "rocky” plastic bubbles. This was quickly changed to a smooth rounded-off bubble with wave 2, and Terrorsaur continued to ship on this card style. The "rocky bubble” cards are harder to find and somewhat more expensive on the secondary market if you care about things like that.
In Japan, there are two different versions of this toy. The initial releases are functionally identical to the Hasbro version. In January 1998, many of the first-wave figures were given new decoes with varying degrees of "show-accuracy”: Terrorsaur was cast in a darker red base plastic, dark-gray plastic replaced the black, yellow paint was added to his beak, the green spots were removed altogether, and his purple paint changed to a medium-gray. So... very show-accurate in this instance.
There are also two different versions of this toy in the European market, but they’re much more subtle. The initial releases are the same as the North American version, but later releases actually use the completely-new tooling developed for Lazorbeak. The Lazorbeak-mold version also has his robot nose painted purple rather than white.
This mold was later used to make Fractyl, and Age of Extinction Strafe (no, seriously). The Lazorbeak version of the mold was used to make Hydra and Dinobots Terranotron.
Takara ID number: D-5
Takara release date: July 1997 (standard deco), January 1998 (redeco)
Accessories: Pistol
Part of the first wave of Beast Wars toys in both Hasbro and Takara markets, Terrorsaur transforms from an organic Pteranodon to robot mode with a spring-loaded mostly-one-step transformation, activated by pulling back on his beast-mode head. (His hands and feet need to be folded out separately.) His handgun folds up to store inside the empty area behind his robot mode head, tucking away neatly in beast mode.
As a first-wave figure in the US, Terrorsaur initially shipped on cards with "rocky” plastic bubbles. This was quickly changed to a smooth rounded-off bubble with wave 2, and Terrorsaur continued to ship on this card style. The "rocky bubble” cards are harder to find and somewhat more expensive on the secondary market if you care about things like that.
In Japan, there are two different versions of this toy. The initial releases are functionally identical to the Hasbro version. In January 1998, many of the first-wave figures were given new decoes with varying degrees of "show-accuracy”: Terrorsaur was cast in a darker red base plastic, dark-gray plastic replaced the black, yellow paint was added to his beak, the green spots were removed altogether, and his purple paint changed to a medium-gray. So... very show-accurate in this instance.
There are also two different versions of this toy in the European market, but they’re much more subtle. The initial releases are the same as the North American version, but later releases actually use the completely-new tooling developed for Lazorbeak. The Lazorbeak-mold version also has his robot nose painted purple rather than white.
This mold was later used to make Fractyl, and Age of Extinction Strafe (no, seriously). The Lazorbeak version of the mold was used to make Hydra and Dinobots Terranotron.
Theme:
Beast Wars
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
1996
Date Added:
2022-03-12 12:41:54
Date Added:
2022-03-12 12:41:54
