Phil's Beast Wars Clawjaw,
Beast Wars II Scuba & Ikard and
Beast Wars Transmetal Video Clawjaw Review


Beast Wars Clawjaw / Beast Wars II Scuba

Clawjaw is one of the first - along with Airazor & Razorclaw - basics to appear after the flipchange gimmick is removed. In Japan an identical toy appears in Beast Wars II as Scuba numbered C-15 or in VS-15 with Thrust - the yellow recolour of the Megatron/Megaplex flipchanger jet.

Clawjaw is a squid. He has 6 stationary tentacles, 2 larger ones flexible where they meet the body and half way down by means of two ball joints, plus a pair between eyes and mouth that move up and down independently. There's a lever on the back of the head - if you push this in then Clawjaw's jaws open. I'm not sure how authentic the peach and red used on this toy is for a squid ! He's also got some purple markings on him.

TF: Fold the eyes and tail forward. Split the tail in two to form the legs and turn at the robot's waist. Rotate the legs in at the knee and bend out the feet. Bend down the tentacles by the mouth, and fold down the articulated tentacles to become the arms. Split the set of 6 tentacles in two down the middle and fold each half out to the sides Fold up the head.

Robot has the tentacles floating out to the sides of each shoulder. Ball joints feature at knee, hip, shoulder, elbow and neck. He turns at the waist and the feet bend at the ankle. The claw gimmick works in this mode. The lever behind the beast head - which may be a tail of some sort - has a weapon clipped onto it. This fork like objects pegs into the end of the arm where his hand would be.

Overall: Beast mode is a bit different, robot mode is a bit odd. not universally well received and shelf warmed badly in the UK.


Beast Wars II Ikard

Ikard is effectively a straight repaint of Clawjaw: Peach becomes white, red becomes blue and the purple - if altered - tends towards lilac. It. makes the toy look much better, a great improvement.

Ikard was sold only in Japan in Beast Wars II set X-5 with the Tako Tank. Pay through the nose for the only non actionmaster vehicle in the TF line ! Video (TM)


Beast Wars Transmetal Video Clawjaw

While the original Clawjaw was still shelf warming his repaint turned up with a video tape. I had the pleasure of breaking the unannounced existence of these toys to TF Fandom on Thursday October 28th 1999 Here's what I said in my message to the TMUK group (and I assume alt.toys.transformers)

"Found the video repaints in TRU Woking this morning.

Thing is they're not Airazor and Razorclaw - like the US got. We've got Clawjaw and Spittor. Clawjaw is green with blue tentacles, Spittor is red.

Both are on TM Cards with their original illustrations, but Spittor is this time labelled as a Predacon.

The videos are just a cassette with a plastic inlay over the top. Clawjaw's tape is labelled BW Episode 27 and the tape does indeed contain Aftermath. Spittor's is BW Episode 28 so I'm assuming it's Coming of the Fuzors 1.

12.99 each".

Clawjaw looks very nice here substituting green and dark blue for the orange and red - a very aquatic look. He gains a new olive green patterning on him which includes circuit lines - he was marketed as a Transmetal toy. Worth picking up if you can find one cheap.


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