Title:
Insecticon
Description:
Insecticon (Energon Class, 2004)
Takara ID number: SD-16
Takara release date: June 10, 2004
Accessories: "Horn Spear” drill-sword, "Horn Shot” gatling-cannon, Decepticon energon chip
Known designers: Eric Siebenaler (Hasbro)
Released in the third wave of Hasbro Energon "Energon Class” toys (effectively "Basics”), Insecticon transforms into a robotic rhinoceros beetle. In robot mode, his front pair of insect-legs swing up to become over-shoulder (non-firing) blaster-cannons.
He comes with two energon weapon parts, a drill-sword and a rotating gatling-cannon. The gatling-cannon is designed to fit over his insect-mode head as a helmet, and while the quad-barreled portion can turn, how freely it spins seems to vary wildly from sample to sample. The cannon also has a Mini-Con-style Powerlinx port, letting it activate Armada-mold Powerlinx gimmicks. The cannon and sword combine to form a large "Energy Tornado” Ultimate Energon Weapon (unnamed in the Hasbro release); this form is also basically the only way to store the drill-sword in his insect mode. He also comes with a Decepticon-style energon chip that can attach to the spark crystals of most other Energon toys.
The Takara Super Link version of "Chromhorn” has transparent bright green energon parts, matching (most of) the other Takara Terrorcons’ energon color, rather than the Hasbro version’s yellowish energon. The base toy is otherwise identical.
This mold was used to create Chromhorn Forest Type. A redeco of the Energy Drill came with the "Nightscream Rebirth” toy in Japan.
Takara ID number: SD-16
Takara release date: June 10, 2004
Accessories: "Horn Spear” drill-sword, "Horn Shot” gatling-cannon, Decepticon energon chip
Known designers: Eric Siebenaler (Hasbro)
Released in the third wave of Hasbro Energon "Energon Class” toys (effectively "Basics”), Insecticon transforms into a robotic rhinoceros beetle. In robot mode, his front pair of insect-legs swing up to become over-shoulder (non-firing) blaster-cannons.
He comes with two energon weapon parts, a drill-sword and a rotating gatling-cannon. The gatling-cannon is designed to fit over his insect-mode head as a helmet, and while the quad-barreled portion can turn, how freely it spins seems to vary wildly from sample to sample. The cannon also has a Mini-Con-style Powerlinx port, letting it activate Armada-mold Powerlinx gimmicks. The cannon and sword combine to form a large "Energy Tornado” Ultimate Energon Weapon (unnamed in the Hasbro release); this form is also basically the only way to store the drill-sword in his insect mode. He also comes with a Decepticon-style energon chip that can attach to the spark crystals of most other Energon toys.
The Takara Super Link version of "Chromhorn” has transparent bright green energon parts, matching (most of) the other Takara Terrorcons’ energon color, rather than the Hasbro version’s yellowish energon. The base toy is otherwise identical.
This mold was used to create Chromhorn Forest Type. A redeco of the Energy Drill came with the "Nightscream Rebirth” toy in Japan.
Theme:
Energon
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2004
Date Added:
2022-11-20 13:48:34
Date Added:
2022-11-20 13:48:34
