New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb

Monday, August 11th, 2014 8:44AM CDT

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And from left field, we here at Seibertron.com are pleased to present to the public new galleries of Beast Wars: Transmetal 2 Maximals Nightglider and Stinkbomb, and their Predacon nemesis Spittor! These suckers, part of the 1999 line-up of Transmetal 2 Basics, may look familiar to those who are fans of the Robots in Disguise (2001) fiction... these characters are the predecessors of popular Robots in Disguise stooges Predacons Dark Scream, Gas Skunk, and Slapper, respectively. As always, take a peek at the preliminary images below, and if you'd like to view the full gallery of each character, click either the links or the images of each character to be taken to the full gallery of the respective toy!

Beast Wars Nightglider

Beast Wars Stinkbomb

Beast Wars Spittor

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Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1598388)
Posted by Sabrblade on August 11th, 2014 @ 8:46am CDT

Bit of trivia: Dark Scream's fist holes are wider than Nightglider's, as Dark Scream's sword was made thicker than Nightglider's.

Or at least, that's how it was for my Dark Scream and Nightglider.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1598391)
Posted by Mindmaster on August 11th, 2014 @ 8:54am CDT

Sabrblade wrote:...Dark Scream's sword was made thicker than Nightglider's.

You know what they say about dudes with thick swords.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1598394)
Posted by Sabrblade on August 11th, 2014 @ 9:06am CDT

Mindmaster wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:...Dark Scream's sword was made thicker than Nightglider's.

You know what they say about dudes with thick swords.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. :twisted:

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1598427)
Posted by #Sideways# on August 11th, 2014 @ 10:37am CDT

Sabrblade wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:...Dark Scream's sword was made thicker than Nightglider's.

You know what they say about dudes with thick swords.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1598578)
Posted by Bumblevivisector on August 11th, 2014 @ 7:51pm CDT

#Sideways# wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:...Dark Scream's sword was made thicker than Nightglider's.

You know what they say about dudes with thick swords.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

What? She can already see the comments that'll be posted for the future Snapper gallery? And here I thought Windblade, of all fembots, would avoid the female-character-amongst-a-predominantly-male-cast-with-a-poorly-defined-intuition-power trope...

Speaking of changes to Nightglider, has any evidence ever surfaced that he was originally supposed to be an Archeopteryx, but got a new head(s?) at the last minute? That's just what he always looked like to me, what with the tail shape, and his wings looking so much more like feathers than flaps of skin.

And yes, I already knew about Archadis' existence when I formed this theory 15 years ago.

And there WAS a running change to my all time favorite TM2, Spittor?!? Damn, I may have to start Beast Huntin' again.
"Toilet-Brush of Omens, give me sight-beyond-sight!"

Oh, and have any Transmetal 2s displayed the same flaking problems as their predecessors?

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1598591)
Posted by shajaki on August 11th, 2014 @ 8:52pm CDT

hey seibs! i know you recently acquired a beast wars returns strika. can i assume you have a full set of BWR figures? when are you planning to get some of those galleries up? :-?

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1598602)
Posted by Seibertron on August 11th, 2014 @ 9:47pm CDT

shajaki wrote:hey seibs! i know you recently acquired a beast wars returns strika. can i assume you have a full set of BWR figures? when are you planning to get some of those galleries up?

Sooner than later for some of them. BWR Tankor, Thrust, Jetstorm, Obsidian and Strika are at the top of my list and I hope to have them completed before the end of the year. I am looking for decent prices on Savage Noble and Megahead Megatron and have not acquired them yet. If I recall correctly, the rest of the figures are basically identical to their Hasbro releases.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1598604)
Posted by shajaki on August 11th, 2014 @ 9:58pm CDT

Seibertron wrote:
shajaki wrote:hey seibs! i know you recently acquired a beast wars returns strika. can i assume you have a full set of BWR figures? when are you planning to get some of those galleries up?
Sooner than later for some of them. BWR Tankor, Thrust, Jetstorm, Obsidian and Strika are at the top of my list and I hope to have them completed before the end of the year. I am looking for decent prices on Savage Noble and Megahead Megatron and have not acquired them yet. If I recall correctly, the rest of the figures are basically identical to their Hasbro releases.

ill be on the edge of my seat

and yeah, to my knowledge the figures that arent obviously different were actually exactly the same as hasbros. but please correct me if im wrong.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1598613)
Posted by Sabrblade on August 11th, 2014 @ 11:04pm CDT

The Beast Wars Returns figures that are the same as their Hasbro counterparts are Convoy, Cheetus, Rattle, Nightscream, and Megatron. All the others are redecos.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1598727)
Posted by xyl360 on August 12th, 2014 @ 12:31pm CDT

Yep, pretty much all of the Deluxe Vehicon drones are different in the Takara BWR releases (and incidentally are typically more show accurate to represent either the drones or their Vehicon General counterparts). I have the Takara Beast Wars Returns versions of the motorcycle drone, tank drone and Strika as Vehicon generals Thrust, Tankor and Strika on my shelf. I'll be using the Takara Generations Tankor as my general once I get that though. I have BWR Jetstorm but I don't believe he's very different (if at all) compared to the US release.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1598736)
Posted by shajaki on August 12th, 2014 @ 1:01pm CDT

xyl360 wrote:I have BWR Jetstorm but I don't believe he's very different (if at all) compared to the US release.

i was going to quote sarblade and say what about jetstorm. does anyone know if theres any differences between the BM and BWR jetstorm?

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1598738)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on August 12th, 2014 @ 1:06pm CDT

shajaki wrote:
xyl360 wrote:I have BWR Jetstorm but I don't believe he's very different (if at all) compared to the US release.
i was going to quote sarblade and say what about jetstorm. does anyone know if theres any differences between the BM and BWR jetstorm?

The differences are minor, and best explained here:

BM Jetstorm entry on TFU.info (scroll down for variants)

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1598741)
Posted by shajaki on August 12th, 2014 @ 1:15pm CDT

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:The differences are minor, and best explained here:
BM Jetstorm entry on TFU.info (scroll down for variants)

i know all about tfu, so that was a big DUR moment for me.

he has some subtle (but very nice) differences. his secondary (or tertiary i dunno) color of plastic is like, seafoam green instead of red. no yellow on the face. and those yellow/orange lines on his abdomen are blue instead. very nice. ill have to get him now!

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1598744)
Posted by Sabrblade on August 12th, 2014 @ 1:21pm CDT

shajaki wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:The differences are minor, and best explained here:
BM Jetstorm entry on TFU.info (scroll down for variants)
i know all about tfu, so that was a big DUR moment for me.

he has some subtle (but very nice) differences. his secondary (or tertiary i dunno) color of plastic is like, seafoam green instead of red. no yellow on the face. and those yellow/orange lines on his abdomen are blue instead. very nice. ill have to get him now!

90% of all his gray plastic was also changed to blue. That's a pretty substantial difference.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1598745)
Posted by shajaki on August 12th, 2014 @ 1:25pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:
shajaki wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:The differences are minor, and best explained here:
BM Jetstorm entry on TFU.info (scroll down for variants)
i know all about tfu, so that was a big DUR moment for me.

he has some subtle (but very nice) differences. his secondary (or tertiary i dunno) color of plastic is like, seafoam green instead of red. no yellow on the face. and those yellow/orange lines on his abdomen are blue instead. very nice. ill have to get him now!
90% of all his gray plastic was also changed to blue. That's a pretty substantial difference.

right right! i noticed that but forgot to mention it.

i wonder if it suffers from the flaking chrome as bad as his hasbro counterpart. i recently acquired a MISB ultra jetstorm, and his chrome is all cracked and ready to fall off inside the box. not to mention my original jetsorm shared the same fate :-(

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1600694)
Posted by xyl360 on August 20th, 2014 @ 12:33pm CDT

Hey Ryan, I'm sorry to be beating a dead horse like this, but in your latest Beast Wars/RiD galleries I notice that while you have comparison shots aplenty between the various versions/variants etc., there is actually no information whatsoever either in the images nor the galleries themselves (nor links to) regarding what figures you're actually comparing them to, who released them (Hasbro, Takara etc.), in what lines they were released (i.e. Beast Wars or RiD in this case) and where the galleries for those figures they're being compared to can be found (no cross-linking).

I'm not necessarily asking for all of that (though it would be ideal), but at least one aspect of that, particularly cross-linking the galleries. At least for cases like this where both galleries exist at the same time/were created relatively close to each other (I assume less effort on your part that way since you don't have to dig through old galleries to find each version etc. to cross link them).

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1666904)
Posted by Sabrblade on March 25th, 2015 @ 2:13pm CDT

Bumping this topic because, Ryan, there's been an update on the mysterious red-chested/silver-horned variant of Rampage.

In the same source I found out about the variant, another user has posted more photos of the toy and clarifies that the previous people were incorrect in thinking it was a running change variant, and instead confirms that it was the very first variant of the figure, with the more common orange-chest/orange-horned version being the running change.

I'll quote his message:

1987olds442 wrote:Sorry to bump and older thread, but I thought I would try to help

What you have there is actually the very first release of Rampage. I have that one as well and the revision one with the gold on the head and chest. If you have both versions boxes the first releases of Rampage was originally in a larger box with a slightly different UPC code. I have my boxes and boxed figures in storage right now, but from memory the originals ended with 00 and the more common running changes end with 01 or 02. The 00 ones only existed in the store for a blink of an eye. I say the only saw one release before they replaced them with the more common gold revision cases.

Here is a old picture of my Rampage when he was pretty much brand new.

Here is the last picture that I took before boxing him up and moving.

There is also a first release Depth Charge as well that is more show accurate with different paint on his face.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1746099)
Posted by william-james88 on December 6th, 2015 @ 12:00am CST

Here is something special regarding variants in the Beast Era.

For Takara's version of Tarantulus and Blackarachnia, there were variants that are noticeably different from the Hasbro versions. The key to knowing if the boxed toy is the variant or not is the green sticker on the front of the package. If it has the white and red sticker, it's the same as the Hasbro version. The green sticker versions are intended to be the more screen accurate versions, though that will be for you to judge when you will see the galleries.

Here is a breakdown of the differences between these variants and the regular Takara/Hasbro release:

Takara Blackarachnia's spider mode is very similar to her Hasbro version. The paint on her claws and chest is gold colored instead of a brownish/bronze color. The trigger button that was green on the Hasbro version is green on the Takara version. In robot mode, the differences stand out more. Takara's eyes and face plate uses the same gold color as her claws and chest, whereas the Hasbro version oddly uses white which isn't used anywhere else on that version. In addition, the green plastic is replaced with a grey plastic.

Takara's Tarantulas has less noticeable changes from the Hasbro version. It uses a grey plastic with a hint of brown or beige instead of the regular grey plastic on the Hasbro version. The green plastic is an almost olive green on the Hasbro version and the Takara version uses a more traditional brighter green. The eye visor on the Takara version uses a goldish colored paint instead of the black paint on the Hasbro version.

Beast Wars Blackarachnia

Beast Wars Tarans

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1746125)
Posted by Rated X on December 6th, 2015 @ 9:40am CST

Looking at this vintage figure just makes me realize how much justice the new takara version has done for this character. I never realized she was just a repaint of tarulantas in the beast wars toy line. We are very fortunate to now be getting fembots with actual female bodies instead of repainted male bodies posing as females.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1746128)
Posted by Sabrblade on December 6th, 2015 @ 9:58am CST

Rated X wrote:Looking at this vintage figure just makes me realize how much justice the new takara version has done for this character. I never realized she was just a repaint of tarulantas in the beast wars toy line. We are very fortunate to now be getting fembots with actual female bodies instead of repainted male bodies posing as females.

However, it's because that she (and Tigatron) was a redeco that the cartoon was able to use her (and Tigatron) due to the limitations of CGI at the time. Had she and Tigatron been their own molds, Mainframe likely would have avoided using them and instead gone with two other redeco characters.

After all, Tigatron was originally going to be Wolfang, but since Tigatron's toy was a redeco of Cheetor, they chose Tigatron instead since it was far more feasible and economical to make a modified version of Cheetor's CGI model for Tigatron than to make a whole new model for Wolfang. The same would probably have applied for Blackarachnia as well since they took Tarantulas's CGI model and made it more, erm, "feminine" for her, instead of making a whole new model.

As for Blackarachnia's newer Legends toy, it is quite nice in its attempts to be show-accurate, yes, but due to it being a mold originally designed for a different version of the character, it contains much more inaccuracies to the BW cartoon model when compared to the original toy (which is understandable since the cartoon model was based on the original toy), and its unfortunately misassembled torso (which every Legends BA figure has) doesn't do it any favors either.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1746131)
Posted by Powered Convoy on December 6th, 2015 @ 10:18am CST

william-james88 wrote:Here is something special regarding variants in the Beast Era.

For Takara's version of Tarantulus and Blackarachnia, there were variants that are noticeably different from the Hasbro versions. The key to knowing if the boxed toy is the variant or not is the green sticker on the front of the package. If it has the white and red sticker, it's the same as the Hasbro version. The green sticker versions are intended to be the more screen accurate versions, though that will be for you to judge when you will see the galleries.

Here is a breakdown of the differences between these variants and the regular Takara/Hasbro release:

Takara Blackarachnia's spider mode is very similar to her Hasbro version. The paint on her claws and chest is gold colored instead of a brownish/bronze color. The trigger button that was green on the Hasbro version is green on the Takara version. In robot mode, the differences stand out more. Takara's eyes and face plate uses the same gold color as her claws and chest, whereas the Hasbro version oddly uses white which isn't used anywhere else on that version. In addition, the green plastic is replaced with a grey plastic.

Takara's Tarantulas has less noticeable changes from the Hasbro version. It uses a grey plastic with a hint of brown or beige instead of the regular grey plastic on the Hasbro version. The green plastic is an almost olive green on the Hasbro version and the Takara version uses a more traditional brighter green. The eye visor on the Takara version uses a goldish colored paint instead of the black paint on the Hasbro version.

Beast Wars Blackarachnia

Beast Wars Tarans

Blackarchnia was one of the few original Japanese Beast Wars that only had one version.

She, Tigatron, Buzzsaw, Shadowpanther, Rhinox, and Wolfang didn't have a USA version and a Japanese version from Takara. Just the normal Takara ones. So the USA color Blackarachnia (along with the others I listed) didn't get a release from Takara like with the 2 versions of Tarantulas, Waspinator, Dinobot, Scorponok, Optimus Primal, and Cheetor.

Rhinox did have two versions though, one tan and one brown (both different than the USA version).

It's funny that even with these deluxes Hasbro and Takara were still gang molding parts as the parts that changed color on Tarantulas carried over to Waspinator and the same was true with Blackarachnia and Buzzsaw.

Randy

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1746236)
Posted by Seibertron on December 6th, 2015 @ 8:50pm CST

Powered Convoy wrote:Blackarchnia was one of the few original Japanese Beast Wars that only had one version.

She, Tigatron, Buzzsaw, Shadowpanther, Rhinox, and Wolfang didn't have a USA version and a Japanese version from Takara. Just the normal Takara ones. So the USA color Blackarachnia (along with the others I listed) didn't get a release from Takara like with the 2 versions of Tarantulas, Waspinator, Dinobot, Scorponok, Optimus Primal, and Cheetor.

Rhinox did have two versions though, one tan and one brown (both different than the USA version).

It's funny that even with these deluxes Hasbro and Takara were still gang molding parts as the parts that changed color on Tarantulas carried over to Waspinator and the same was true with Blackarachnia and Buzzsaw.

Randy

What's different on Scorponok and Optimus Primal? I was under the understanding that they were the same even with the green stickers, aside from the various special editions of Optimus Primal such as the gray version.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1746245)
Posted by Sabrblade on December 6th, 2015 @ 10:01pm CST

Seibertron wrote:
Powered Convoy wrote:Blackarchnia was one of the few original Japanese Beast Wars that only had one version.

She, Tigatron, Buzzsaw, Shadowpanther, Rhinox, and Wolfang didn't have a USA version and a Japanese version from Takara. Just the normal Takara ones. So the USA color Blackarachnia (along with the others I listed) didn't get a release from Takara like with the 2 versions of Tarantulas, Waspinator, Dinobot, Scorponok, Optimus Primal, and Cheetor.

Rhinox did have two versions though, one tan and one brown (both different than the USA version).

It's funny that even with these deluxes Hasbro and Takara were still gang molding parts as the parts that changed color on Tarantulas carried over to Waspinator and the same was true with Blackarachnia and Buzzsaw.

Randy

What's different on Scorponok and Optimus Primal? I was under the understanding that they were the same even with the green stickers, aside from the various special editions of Optimus Primal such as the gray version.

I think the special gray version of Primal is the Takara redeco that he's referring to.

As for Scorponok, Takara's second run version had the first run version's black plastic changed to charcoal gray, and the red parts were changed to a lighter, near orange shade.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1746253)
Posted by Seibertron on December 6th, 2015 @ 10:39pm CST

Sabrblade wrote:As for Scorponok, Takara's second run version had the first run version's black plastic changed to charcoal gray, and the red parts were changed to a lighter, near orange shade.

Well, guess I'll find out in the next week! Just ordered the green sticker Scorponok from Mandarake.

http://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/deta ... 8&ref=list

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1746315)
Posted by Sabrblade on December 7th, 2015 @ 9:17am CST

I'm not so sure that the green sticker is the determining factor between the first run Takara figures that are identical to the Hasbro versions and the second run Takara figures that were redecoed to be a little more show-accurate.

I say this for two reasons. First, after translating what the sticker says, it doesn't advertise the toys themselves, but the cartoon. The sticker basically says that the show is "The World's first!! 100% computer-generated transforming robot TV series animation!!" rather than referring to the toys' new decos.

And secondly, there's this pic of the Japanese "Brutal Showdown" two-pack containing Dinobot and Waspeeter (Waspinator), which has a green sticker on the box but the Dinobot figure included is definitely the Hasbro-colored first run pink w/ black stripes version instead of the more show-accurate second run peach w/ brown stripes version.

What's more is that some of the toys had white and pink stickers instead of green ones, but which said the same thing as the green ones (and an additional notion that the toys came with Character Cards):

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1746379)
Posted by Seibertron on December 7th, 2015 @ 3:59pm CST

Green sticker variants only apply to single packs, not to the versus packs, which unfortunately adds to the confusion about these.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1746380)
Posted by Seibertron on December 7th, 2015 @ 4:01pm CST

Seibertron wrote:Green sticker variants only apply to single packs, not to the versus packs, which unfortunately adds to the confusion about these.

FYI ... I own all of the variants except I didn't know that both takara versions of rhinox was different as well so I bought the first release of him yesterday as well. Scorponok was the only one I haven't been able to get confirmation on.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1746415)
Posted by william-james88 on December 7th, 2015 @ 7:31pm CST

Looking forward to proof on that scorponok.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1746462)
Posted by Sabrblade on December 7th, 2015 @ 11:04pm CST

The only place I've seen in hand pics of the Takara second run Scorpos figure is on TFU.info, but the differences with the Hasbro-colored version seem to be so subtle that I can barely tell the difference from those pics.

That or the pics aren't in a good enough quality/lighting to really bring out the differences.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1746470)
Posted by Seibertron on December 7th, 2015 @ 11:19pm CST

Sabrblade wrote:The only place I've seen in hand pics of the Takara second run Scorpos figure is on TFU.info, but the differences with the Hasbro-colored version seem to be so subtle that I can barely tell the difference from those pics.

That or the pics aren't in a good enough quality/lighting to really bring out the differences.

Where do you see the pics of the Takara variant on tfu.info? Nevermind ... saw them on the page, just overlooked them because they look the same.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1746472)
Posted by Seibertron on December 7th, 2015 @ 11:23pm CST

Seibertron wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:The only place I've seen in hand pics of the Takara second run Scorpos figure is on TFU.info, but the differences with the Hasbro-colored version seem to be so subtle that I can barely tell the difference from those pics.

That or the pics aren't in a good enough quality/lighting to really bring out the differences.

Where do you see the pics of the Takara variant on tfu.info? Nevermind ... saw them on the page, just overlooked them because they look the same.

Upon further inspection with my gallery of Scorponok in comparison to the pics that they have posted on tfu.info, it seems like they might have the pictures mixed up for the Japanese variant with the regular Hasbro version. Scorponok's claws are a bluish gray translucent plastic but they're showing the gray plastic for the Hasbro version. Guess I'll get to find out soon!

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Posted by william-james88 on December 7th, 2015 @ 11:31pm CST

Yeah, these two look quite different in colour, especially on the head:

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1746756)
Posted by Powered Convoy on December 9th, 2015 @ 7:31am CST

I have both Scorponoks. The 2nd version is a grayish purple color instead of black. I don't recall there being any difference in the reds though.

Scorponok is near impossible to tell which is which in the packaging as the colors are pretty similar.

I still have my Scorponok, but the Japanese one's tail broke.

Randy

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Posted by Seibertron on December 12th, 2015 @ 12:59pm CST

Powered Convoy wrote:I have both Scorponoks. The 2nd version is a grayish purple color instead of black. I don't recall there being any difference in the reds though.

Scorponok is near impossible to tell which is which in the packaging as the colors are pretty similar.

I still have my Scorponok, but the Japanese one's tail broke.

Randy

Any chance you can show us what they look like side-by-side? I just got the Japanese one with the green sticker. It's different but more like "factory run" different. The US one is a dark black and the Japanese one that I just got today is a lighter black. It's possible the translucent plastic used for the legs is a different shade as well but it's very subtle if it is different at all. The red plastic all seems the same.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1749111)
Posted by Seibertron on December 19th, 2015 @ 11:23pm CST

Powered Convoy wrote:I have both Scorponoks. The 2nd version is a grayish purple color instead of black. I don't recall there being any difference in the reds though.

Scorponok is near impossible to tell which is which in the packaging as the colors are pretty similar.

I still have my Scorponok, but the Japanese one's tail broke.

Randy

I'm glad you said that about the grayish purple color. Upon closer inspection with the more white lights that I use for my gallery setup, the Takara Scorponok that I recently purchased is indeed a different color! I swear the translucent plastic used for his legs and claws are also a more bluish color but I can only tell when I hold them in front of the light, but it could have more to do with different factory runs or just how translucent the plastic is. Or it could be my imagination. Either way, the "black" plastic is definitely a different color which you can see in the pictures below!

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1749114)
Posted by william-james88 on December 20th, 2015 @ 12:28am CST

Is your new scorponok also with the green sticker? Because if so, that grey colour continues the tradition of green stickers being a "better" attempt at screen accuracy.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1749115)
Posted by Seibertron on December 20th, 2015 @ 12:46am CST

william-james88 wrote:Is your new scorponok also with the green sticker? Because if so, that grey colour continues the tradition of green stickers being a "better" attempt at screen accuracy.

It's a green sticker version. The green stickers are, for the most part, the "better" attempts which only applies to single packed versions of the toys. The only ones I'm aware of that this applies to are Cheetor, Dinobot, Rhinox (though both Takara versions are different from the Hasbro version and from each other), Tarantulas, Blackarachnia (both Takara versions are the same, but is different from Hasbro), and Scorponok. Not sure about Waspinator and Buzzsaw yet. To the best of my knowledge, Ultra Class Megatron and Optimus Primal are the same (with the exceptions of all of the different versions of Beast Convoy/Optimus Primal).

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1749116)
Posted by Seibertron on December 20th, 2015 @ 12:51am CST

Seibertron wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Is your new scorponok also with the green sticker? Because if so, that grey colour continues the tradition of green stickers being a "better" attempt at screen accuracy.

It's a green sticker version. The green stickers are, for the most part, the "better" attempts which only applies to single packed versions of the toys. The only ones I'm aware of that this applies to are Cheetor, Dinobot, Rhinox (though both Takara versions are different from the Hasbro version and from each other), Tarantulas, Blackarachnia (both Takara versions are the same, but is different from Hasbro), and Scorponok. Not sure about Waspinator and Buzzsaw yet. To the best of my knowledge, Ultra Class Megatron and Optimus Primal are the same (with the exceptions of all of the different versions of Beast Convoy/Optimus Primal).

Can you guys tell I'm getting ready for Seibertron.com's celebration of Beast Wars 20th anniversary???

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1749117)
Posted by Hellscream9999 on December 20th, 2015 @ 1:12am CST

Seibertron wrote:
Seibertron wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Is your new scorponok also with the green sticker? Because if so, that grey colour continues the tradition of green stickers being a "better" attempt at screen accuracy.

It's a green sticker version. The green stickers are, for the most part, the "better" attempts which only applies to single packed versions of the toys. The only ones I'm aware of that this applies to are Cheetor, Dinobot, Rhinox (though both Takara versions are different from the Hasbro version and from each other), Tarantulas, Blackarachnia (both Takara versions are the same, but is different from Hasbro), and Scorponok. Not sure about Waspinator and Buzzsaw yet. To the best of my knowledge, Ultra Class Megatron and Optimus Primal are the same (with the exceptions of all of the different versions of Beast Convoy/Optimus Primal).

Can you guys tell I'm getting ready for Seibertron.com's celebration of Beast Wars 20th anniversary???

Yeah, it's looking to be pretty great, I'm really excited, it's already shaping up better than hasbro's 'attempt' [-(

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1749119)
Posted by Seibertron on December 20th, 2015 @ 1:21am CST

Got this guy too

C-1 Special Convoy Gray Type!!!

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1749120)
Posted by Hellscream9999 on December 20th, 2015 @ 1:26am CST

Seibertron wrote:Got this guy too

C-1 Special Convoy Gray Type!!!

You spoil us :BLUSH:

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1795622)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on June 7th, 2016 @ 6:26pm CDT

Beast Wars Tuesdays begins here! Every Tuesday, we'll be focusing our camera lens on a new set of galleries featuring vintage Transformers action figures from the Beast Wars era. Check back next Tuesday to see our next set of Beast Wars related galleries.

Now onto today's topic of discussion: Seibertron is proud to bring to you galleries of Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp! This version of the figure is a repaint of its Hasbro counterpart Magnaboss, which featured Ironhide, Silverbolt and Prowl as the 3 components. In this case, Santon, Skywarp and Lio Junior are repainted from their Hasbro members as the elephant, eagle and lion, respectively. Beast Wars II Magnaboss was sold by Takara back in 1998 and featured some extra paint details, among which were very badly needed robot mode head details outlined. Check out this mighty 3-member combiner down below and experience one of the most complex figures of the Beast era and let us know what you think of this Big Boss in the comments section down below. And as always stay tuned to Seibertron.com for all your latest Transformers News and Galleries!

Beast Wars II Magnaboss (124 images) - Ultra Beasts

Beast Wars II Lio Junior (114 images) - Basic Beasts

Beast Wars II Santon (114 images) - Deluxe Beasts

Beast Wars II Skywarp (133 images) - Basic Beasts

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1795628)
Posted by LOST Cybertronian on June 7th, 2016 @ 6:49pm CDT

Digging the facepaint

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1795637)
Posted by Railbomb on June 7th, 2016 @ 7:12pm CDT

Why does it seem no one can pose Magnaboss' horns like they're supposed to be.

The way they are in this picture are incorrect. I'm not sure what the instructions say but you can very much pose them as they are in the show, sticking out of the side of the head like this:

EDIT: Looking at the full gallery there's even a picture of the box with it showing the right way to put them. :BANG_HEAD:

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1795639)
Posted by Sabrblade on June 7th, 2016 @ 7:19pm CDT

I can't wait to get to the episodes where these guys show up in the cartoon.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1795646)
Posted by thedistinctroom on June 7th, 2016 @ 7:43pm CDT

My Magnaboss met a terrible GPS fate (like so many). :GHOST:

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1795661)
Posted by UltraPrimal on June 7th, 2016 @ 8:35pm CDT

Does Takara's version suffer from GPS/BPS like the Hasbro one does?

Man, do I wish Hasbro would do a BW reissue line. I went to pull my TM2 Cheetor out of storage last weekend. Grabbed him out of the box and all the vac-metal transferred from his body to my hand. I was so sad I just put him back in the box.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1795662)
Posted by Sabrblade on June 7th, 2016 @ 8:38pm CDT

UltraPrimal wrote:Does Takara's version suffer from GPS/BPS like the Hasbro one does?

Yes. Skywarp is able to suffer the same tailfin GPS as Silverbolt.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1795669)
Posted by Decepticon Stryker on June 7th, 2016 @ 9:08pm CDT

UltraPrimal wrote:Does Takara's version suffer from GPS/BPS like the Hasbro one does?

What's BPS? I've heard of Gold Plastic Syndrome but not this other kind.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Spittor, Nightglider, and Stinkbomb (1795671)
Posted by Sabrblade on June 7th, 2016 @ 9:14pm CDT

Decepticon Stryker wrote:
UltraPrimal wrote:Does Takara's version suffer from GPS/BPS like the Hasbro one does?

What's BPS? I've heard of Gold Plastic Syndrome but not this other kind.

It's a nickname for what Hasbro's Transmetal Megatron suffers from: "Brown Plastic Syndrome". It's essentially the the same thing as GPS, only that the fundamental plastic involved is brown instead of gold.

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