Eggleo (1998)
A late (and low-run) addition to the Takara Beast Wars line, Eggleo transforms from a mechanical sphere (ostensibly an “egg” mode) into a lion. He is cast in translucent yellow plastic except for a handful of chromed and die-cast parts. He has a non-removable keychain attached to his robot mode back (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 “Jaleon” toy, giving him a new loop for his attached keychain. The Wataru toy was itself a retool of the Micro Change “MC-15 Metal Leo” toy, which also had a base and two additional mane-guns excluded from all later iterations of the mold.
This mold was also used to make Dark Eggleo and Kiss Players Angela.
