Dark Eggbot

Dark Eggbot is a Predacon Egg Beast from the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Note: On his packaging, Dark Eggbot is incorrectly depicted as being capable of pooping kana.

Despite belonging to the group of Cybertronians called the "Egg Beasts", Dark Eggbot (ダークエッグボット Dāku Eggubotto) does not actually possess a beast mode. He does, however, have a fiendishly complex and calculating processing center which he uses to devise evil plots and nefarious acts of espionage against the Maximals. How his transformation into a ball helps him carry them out is unknown, but if it's good enough for Samus Aran...

Like his fellow Egg Beasts, he is among the oldest operational Predacons.

Fiction

Ask Vector Prime

Dark Eggbot was a sleeper agent of Unicron, inserted into Predacon society. Like all the Egg Beasts, his alternate forms bore many similarities to Unicron's own structure. Unicron would reuse his design for the Sparkbot Star Dust. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/29

Generations Selects Special Comic

In 2011, Unicron fought against the combined Autobot and Decepticon attempt to seal him into the Triple Z Point by reconstructing himself from a cadre of disciples that included Dark Eggbots. Super Megatron comic 1

Toys

Beast Wars

Dr. Eggman’s new Death Egg left much to be desired.

• Dark Eggbot (Egg Beast, 1998)

• ID number: ED-3
• Known designers: Masaki Maruyama (original tooling)

A late (and low-run) addition to the Takara Beast Wars line, Dark Eggbot transforms from a mechanical sphere (ostensibly an "egg" mode) into a robot. He is cast in translucent black plastic except for a handful of chromed and die-cast parts. He has a non-removable keychain attached to his robot mode back (well, you can remove it if you bend the metal attaching ring).

All of the Eggbots demand a higher price tag on the secondary market than one would expect at first, thanks to their late and relatively limited release.

This mold is a retooling of the 1988 Takara Mashin Hero Wataru "Jakira" toy, giving him a new loop for his attached keychain. The Wataru toy was itself a retool of the Micro Change Meteor Robo "MC-14 Metal Man" toy, which also had a base and two additional guns excluded from all later iterations of the mold.

This mold was also used to make Eggbot and Kiss Players Star Dust and was also proposed for a Generations Vector Sigma accessory, but that was not produced. It also served as the model for a comic background character.

• More information on Dark Eggbot at TFU.info