Transformers Beast Wars Tripredacus MISP

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Get ready to bid Beast Wars fans! Up for auction is the rare Tripredacus gestalt. Hasbro only released two Gestalt figures, and of the two, this is the best. As with many Beast Wars figures,this one never made it onto to the show as such. We met the Tripredacus Council in one episode, which, considering that there were three of them, it is reasonable to assume that Cicadacon, Sea Clamp, and Ram Horn were those council members. As far as the toy design goes, Hasbro did a fantastic job of it. It's not based on the scramble-designs of Defensor, Bruticus, and the like,but instead each bot has a specific body part it can form (like Devastator).It's not as if the lack of improvisation is a great loss, though: the design is very well thought out (it looks like someone intended it to look that way), andthe articulation benefits from being the sum of the smaller robots.Another defining point is that this was one of the first Transformer combiners to not require a slew of extra parts. Each robot contributes a part for agun/right claw assembly, true, but those parts have homes in every other mode,so the parts aren't dead weight otherwise. The arrangement of the bots themselves is this: Cicadacon forms the head/torso, Ramhorn forms the arms, and Sea Clamp forms the legs and back.As for the aesthetics themselves, Tripredacus constitutes a lumbering read more