Predacons

Manterror is a deluxe Beast Wars Transformers toy. His design utilizes a beast mode that many hoped to see in a Beast Wars Transformers toy, that of a praying mantis. A powerful and elegant creature, Manterror is a nice toy to behold.

Injector is one of the deluxe Fuzors releases for 1998. He is also one toy that caused a fair amount of confusion among Transformers fans because earlier publicity releases had named this toy "Aquasting". Unfortunately, the name had already been snatched up by another company, so they had to do a quick renaming.

Iguanus was one of the first basic Predacon Beast Wars toys released. For those fans looking at him and making a double take, don't worry, your sanity is intact. Much of the same mold was also used for the basic sized crocodile Megatron figure released the same year.

Drill Bit is a basic size addition to the Predacon ranks. Whereas a good deal of the Beast Wars line has a lot of hits when they try to do interesting creatures, Drill Bit isn't really one of them. However, he is not without his own redeeming factors. Drill Bit was also repainted and reused as a character in the Beast Wars the Second toy line as an Insectron.

When you spend almost every mission winding up trashed in some creative way, it's hard not to feel like the universe's chew toy. Such is the fate of Waspinator, perhaps the unluckiest Predacon under Megatron's command. Check out my review and gallery of Kingdom Waspinator!