Phil's Beast Wars Insecticon Review


Beast Wars Insecticon

Insecticon is the second Beast Wars toy to take an old faction name and turn it into a character's name after Dinobot (Predacon would follow in Armada)

Insecticon is a basic sized beetle. The main shell of the toy is blue, while the legs and mandibles are green. The legs are in a fixed position, but the front legs is mounted on the robot's upper arm and the back 2 legs are mounted on the robot's lower arm. So by bending and the elbow and the shoulder you can get some poseability out the beast mode. The shell on the back of the beetle splits in two and folds out to each side to form what looks like wings.

TF: Flipchanger. Push down on the beast head, it will fold under the body to become the robot's chest and reveal the robot head. The robot legs get pushed out from under the insect behind it.

Robot maintains the colours used in beast mode. Frustratingly the eyes and the back of the head are both painted - surely it would have been easier to actually implement the light pipe ????? Standard BW Basic articulation - ball joints at knee, hip, shoulder, elbow & neck. The ankles also bend. The arms have the beast legs sticking out of them.

He has a concealed weapon like all the BW basics: Open his wings up and under each of them is half of the weapon. Remove them, fasten the blue bits together and then spread the green bits to the side to form a crossbow. One of the best hidden flipchanger weapons it doesn't have any bits of beast hanging off it.

Available in Japan as Kuwagaigar D-10 or in VS-10 with basic Airazor.

Overall: Decent enough basic. Looks like an insect and you get a nice poseable robot out of it. Good as all the other BW Basics.


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