Title:
Tarantulas 2nd
Description:
Tarantulas (Deluxe, 1996/1997)
Takara ID number: D-4
Accessories: Launcher, 4 spider-leg missiles
Part of the first wave of Beast Wars product, Tarantulas transforms into an organic generic spider (not a tarantula). His abdomen contains a spring-loaded missile launcher, which fires the anchor-missile kept in his spider-butt. This missile is attached by a string so he can hang from things like a real spider (perfect for pulling pranks). The launcher can be removed and used as a robot mode weapon, using any of his front four spider-legs as missiles. Like all early Deluxe-and-up Beast Wars toys, he has two different robot mode "heads”; a robotic face and a "mutant” face. He is almost always depicted using the mutant face.
The original Tarantulas...es... shipped on cards with "rocky"-shaped bubbles. Later (and more numerous) assortments moved to a smooth, rounded bubble, leading the first packaging type to become sought-after collectibles on the secondary market. This is also the source of a toy variant: smooth-bubble Tarantulaseseses lack yellow paint on the elbows found on the rocky-bubble samples. Speaking of packaging, Tarantulas’s stock photography on the cardbacks showed him as being mainly transparent orange plastic rather than the transparent purple of the finalized toy.
The Takara release of Tarantulas was originally identical to the Hasbro smooth-bubble release, missing elbow-paint and all. In January 1998, a slightly color-altered version was released, using a brighter shade of green and a slightly darker gray. The color-altered version also replaced the blue eyes on the "robot” head and the black eyes of the "mutant” head with gold.
This mold was used to make the first Blackarachnia toy.
Takara ID number: D-4
Accessories: Launcher, 4 spider-leg missiles
Part of the first wave of Beast Wars product, Tarantulas transforms into an organic generic spider (not a tarantula). His abdomen contains a spring-loaded missile launcher, which fires the anchor-missile kept in his spider-butt. This missile is attached by a string so he can hang from things like a real spider (perfect for pulling pranks). The launcher can be removed and used as a robot mode weapon, using any of his front four spider-legs as missiles. Like all early Deluxe-and-up Beast Wars toys, he has two different robot mode "heads”; a robotic face and a "mutant” face. He is almost always depicted using the mutant face.
The original Tarantulas...es... shipped on cards with "rocky"-shaped bubbles. Later (and more numerous) assortments moved to a smooth, rounded bubble, leading the first packaging type to become sought-after collectibles on the secondary market. This is also the source of a toy variant: smooth-bubble Tarantulaseseses lack yellow paint on the elbows found on the rocky-bubble samples. Speaking of packaging, Tarantulas’s stock photography on the cardbacks showed him as being mainly transparent orange plastic rather than the transparent purple of the finalized toy.
The Takara release of Tarantulas was originally identical to the Hasbro smooth-bubble release, missing elbow-paint and all. In January 1998, a slightly color-altered version was released, using a brighter shade of green and a slightly darker gray. The color-altered version also replaced the blue eyes on the "robot” head and the black eyes of the "mutant” head with gold.
This mold was used to make the first Blackarachnia toy.
Theme:
Beast Wars
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
1996
Date Added:
2022-03-12 12:44:28
Date Added:
2022-03-12 12:44:28
