Transformers Beast Wars: EC-2 Eggbird Photo Gallery
Eggbird (1998)
A late (and low-run) addition to the Takara Beast Wars line, Eggbird transforms from a mechanical sphere (ostensibly an “egg” mode) into a robotic hawk. He is cast in red translucent plastic except for a handful of chromed and die-cast parts. He has a non-removable keychain attached to his beast-mode breast (well, you can remove it if you bend the metal attaching ring).
All of the Eggbots demand a higher price tag on the secondary market than one would expect at first, thanks to their late and relatively limited release.
This mold is a retooling of the 1988 Takara Mashin Hero Wataru “Jakuro” toy, giving him a new loop for his attached keychain. The Wataru toy was itself a retool of the Micro Change “MC-16 Metal Hawk” toy, which also had a base and two additional guns excluded from all later iterations of the mold.
This mold was also used to make Dark Eggbird and Kiss Players Zangetsu.
