Spider-Father is gonna have a rip-roaring year!

@spider-father.bsky.social

Hobbyist and member of the tabletop wargames industry. Lifelong Transformers fanatic. Has a lesser interest in other toy lines. Former owner of the most famous couch in Transformers Twitter fandom (R.I.P. couch). 🌈 He/Him.

The reason I ask is that I found a green gator Megatron variant & I’m trying to work out its story. It uses the same mould as the purple Megalligator (slightly bulging robot eyes, extra scale on the croc forehead, filled in screwhole on the attachment peg for Iguanus’ frill) but not sure if it is 🇯🇵

Two copies of the green crocodile/alligator version of Beast Wars Megatron. The the lefthand copy has noticeably bulging eyes compared to the right (which is the common Western version) and the purple face paint is a tad brighter purple. If you look at the beast heads on the chests there are two rows of four scales on each copy. On the left foot there is an extra is also a single extra scale on its own under the eight that the right lacksThe extra scale/lack of extra scale highlightedThere is a peg behind the head that serves  as an attachment point for the screw that holds on Iguanus’ frill on that version of the mould. On the common western version (right) the screw hole still exists (and you can attach the Iguanus frill if you like). The the lefthand copy the screw hole has been filled in
The two versions compared with Iguanus- note the holes and lack of hole
Rik@slightlyonfire.bsky.social · 2d ago

Does anyone own the either Takara Japanese release of the green version of alligator Megatron? I’m on my mould variation bullshit again and need to check something (just on the Japanese Takara release)

Two-pack of the Japanese Beast Wars original colours Convobat vs Megalligator

Remembered an interaction at TFN just now and brought a smile to my face. A friend and I were going through ID’s second hand boxes and a lady (couldn’t place her age but older than me I think) approached us with a bagged Retro Wheelie and asked us if that was a good price for it and apologised for

We should really work together, hand and hand, to focus all of our community’s poorly-suppressed and totally ruthless bullying energy on the single demographic we all agree actually deserves it: Harry Potter Adults in the year of our lord 2026