New Galleries: Beast Wars Telemocha TM-12 Gimlet and TM-13 Motorarm

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A new week, another Beast Wars Tuesday! Every Tuesday, we'll be focusing our camera lens on a new set of galleries featuring vintage Transformers action figures from the Beast Wars era. Check back next Tuesday to see our next set of Beast Wars related galleries.

This first week of summer, we take a look at two of the members of the Beast Wars II Tripledacus gestalt, as represented in the Telemocha series - the original Hasbro combiner of three can be found on Seibertron.com here - TM-12 Gimlet and TM-13 Motorarm!

The two 2007 reissue figures also came with DVDs of the Beast Wars show: lobster alt-moded Gimlet is was packaged with "Falcon Warrior Airrazor" ('The Spark' in US), while stag beetle Motorarm included "The Immortal Starscream" ('Possession' in US). Check out the full galleries by clicking on any of the images below, and keep an optic out for the Beast Wars II Tripledacus set, coming for an upcoming Beast Wars Tuesday!

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Comment by shajaki Jun 21, 2016

That's exactly what I'm planning to do. Even let A non-box set fly slip through my fingers recently (which would be the hardest part to acquire).

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Comment by Evil Eye Jun 21, 2016

I kinda wish Takara would revisit Tripledacus with a new toy, expanded into Quadrupledacus- the body and leg setup would be mostly the same, with Gimlet forming the legs and DJ forming the body, but Motorarm would just form one arm (hopefully making him less of a lump in robot mode), whilst the other arm would be formed by a fembot cricket (not sure on the name. Flamenco perhaps?).

I've never watched BWII but I love the concepts it created, especially the Jointrons. I mean, musical Mexican bug-formers! As soon as my home situation is sorted and I'm able to collect again I must get a set.

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Comment by Noideaforaname Jun 21, 2016

Amazing how different the heads manage to look just because of the actual placement of color. Gimlet's got a conventional bug mouth (complete with mandibles) while Sea Clamp's got a ANGRY MARINES Darth Vader-esque triangular grimace.

Also:

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Comment by Shuttershock Jun 21, 2016

Regardless of color scheme, Ram Horn's face continues to be both incredibly goofy and creepy.

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Comment by Decepticon Stryker Jun 21, 2016

Delta Magnus wrote:I kinda wish Takara would revisit Tripledacus with a new toy, expanded into Quadrupledacus- the body and leg setup would be mostly the same, with Gimlet forming the legs and DJ forming the body, but Motorarm would just form one arm (hopefully making him less of a lump in robot mode), whilst the other arm would be formed by a fembot cricket (not sure on the name. Flamenco perhaps?).

How about Glowstrike?

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Comment by Jelze Bunnycat Jun 24, 2016

I'm a few days late with this, but Motorarm/Ram Horn is a Rhinoceros Beetle (Kabutomushi or just Kabuto), not a Stag Beetle (Kuwagatamushi or Kuwagata). The main way of discerning between the two is the position of the mandibles:

- Rhinoceros Beetles have them vertically, like a Rhino's horn (hence their name)
- Stag Beetles have been horizontally, function like a pincer, and resemble a deer's antlers (again, hence their name)

Just letting you guys know, as many make that mistake.

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Comment by D-Maximal_Primal Jun 28, 2016

A new week, another Beast Wars Tuesday! Every Tuesday, we'll be focusing our camera lens on a new set of galleries featuring vintage Transformers action figures from the Beast Wars era. Check back next Tuesday to see our next set of Beast Wars related galleries.

This week, we bring to you a trio of Maximals that were not released as individual toys, but rather as pack-ins for jigsaw puzzles, specifically the Beast Wars Metals puzzles. These 3 were redecos of their previous toys, with Rattrap being an orange and white redeco of his Transmetals body, while Lio Junior was redecoed in either black and red or white and yellow. All 3 were available between 1998 and 1999. Lio Junior is even shown here forming part of Magnaboss, and these gallery images may be the very first images of this version of Magnaboss (albeit the main difference is that he looks like he colored his hair).

Check out the gallery below, and stay tuned for more Beast Wars Tuesdays right here on Seibertron.com!

Beast Wars Metals Rattle Special Version (134 images) - Deluxe Beasts

Beast Wars II Lio Junior (White version) (150 images) - Basic Beasts, Combiners

Beast Wars II Lio Junior (Black version) (133 images) - Basic Beasts, Combiners

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Comment by Evil Eye Jun 28, 2016

I do love that Rattrap redeco. In fact if it weren't for the chrome flaking problem I'd get a TM Rattrap, as I love the look of the mold and all the colour variants look great. Plus he has a literal "rat rod" mode!

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Comment by D-Maximal_Primal Jun 28, 2016

I love Magnaboss' new hair do's

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Comment by Megatron Wolf Jun 28, 2016

Delta Magnus wrote:I do love that Rattrap redeco. In fact if it weren't for the chrome flaking problem I'd get a TM Rattrap, as I love the look of the mold and all the colour variants look great. Plus he has a literal "rat rod" mode!

I have 3 versions of the rattrap mold, 2 i bought new in the 90s the other i got in a lot off ebay a few years ago and not one of them has any flaking. Most of my transmetal figures have absolutely no flaking at all, dont be afraid to buy them especially if they are mint in box.

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Comment by Noideaforaname Jun 28, 2016

"Gee, Brain, what do ya wanna do tonight?"

Who-- what the heck is that at the top of the box? Red and black robot with weird purple organic head?

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Comment by Sabrblade Jun 28, 2016

Noideaforaname wrote:Who-- what the heck is that at the top of the box? Red and black robot with weird purple organic head?

That there is Majin Zarak, the main enemy of the Beast Wars II movie.

Altmode:

Robot Mode:

Close up:

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Comment by Evil Eye Jun 28, 2016

Sabrblade wrote:
Noideaforaname wrote:Who-- what the heck is that at the top of the box? Red and black robot with weird purple organic head?
That there is Majin Zarak, the main enemy of the Beast Wars II movie.

Altmode:

Robot Mode:

Close up:

Titan-class toy when? =P~

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Comment by D-Maximal_Primal Jun 28, 2016

That thing is frightening...

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Comment by Noideaforaname Jun 28, 2016

My god, he is as ridiculous as he is ugly as he is BEAUTIFUL!

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Comment by StellaMiniCon Jul 5, 2016

So who's up for tonight?

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Comment by Seibertron Jul 5, 2016

Probably going to skip it this week ... Titans Return came out in full force all at once and had family in town over the weekend and had my in-laws over for the 4th yesterday. Will do my best to have something up for next week. Sorry for not having photos cropped in time!

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Comment by Hellscream9999 Jul 5, 2016

Delta Magnus wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Noideaforaname wrote:Who-- what the heck is that at the top of the box? Red and black robot with weird purple organic head?
That there is Majin Zarak, the main enemy of the Beast Wars II movie.

Altmode:

Robot Mode:

Close up:

Titan-class toy when?

F&%K YEAH, I'd get it (I think, not entirely sold on it being a tf, but it's certainly glorious regardless)

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Comment by Evil Eye Jul 7, 2016

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Delta Magnus wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Noideaforaname wrote:Who-- what the heck is that at the top of the box? Red and black robot with weird purple organic head?
That there is Majin Zarak, the main enemy of the Beast Wars II movie.

Altmode:

Robot Mode:

Close up:

Titan-class toy when?

F&%K YEAH, I'd get it (I think, not entirely sold on it being a tf, but it's certainly glorious irregardless)

>Irregardless
REGARDLESS. IT'S JUST REGARDLESS. IRREGARDLESS IS NOT A WORD.

Ahem.

But yeah it is one hell of a design. Looks like a monster from Getter Robo made glorious love to the Zeong from Gundam and then did a cosplay as an aircraft carrier...on treads.

Whatever it is, I love it.

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Comment by Hellscream9999 Jul 7, 2016

Delta Magnus wrote:But yeah it is one hell of a design. Looks like a monster from Getter Robo made glorious love to the Zeong from Gundam and then did a cosplay as an aircraft carrier...on treads.

Whatever it is, I love it.

It reminds me of the devil gundam a little - which is never a bad thing :twisted: