Eggbot (1998)
A late (and low-run) addition to the Takara Beast Wars line, Eggbot transforms from a mechanical sphere (ostensibly an “egg” mode) into a robot. He is cast in translucent blue 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 “Jakira” toy, giving him a new loop for his attached keychain. The Wataru toy was itself a retool of the Micro Change Meteor Robo “MC-14 Metal Man” 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 Eggbot and Kiss Players Star Dust and was also proposed for a Generations Vector Sigma accessory, but that was not produced. It also served as the model for a comic background character.
