Courtesy of Ami Ami we can share for you clear official stock images of the most recent entry in the Beast Wars Masterpiece line: MP-46 Blackarachnia.
The images show off our beloved bad spider-girl in all her glory, revealing a wide range of poseability in robot mode. She can sit crossing legs, the spider legs can be positioned as guns (very cartoon-accurate) and she can even make a high kick! We also have a look at some of the accessories included, like her gun and visor, and an extra head with green eyes.
We also have better shots of the spider mode, definitively better transformed compared to our first images from Shizuoka Hobby Show. The robot arms are more hidden and the main spider’s body looks more integrated. The spider legs are strong enough to hold the spider weight,and she can be attached on her spiderweb accessory for a great display.
Check the images after the jump and then sound off on the 2005 Boards!
Verno
@GALVATOM Don't be so modest mate. You spearheaded the project.
Repositioning MP Megs today, I think I was a little hasty with my estimate of her height. She's probably closer to 15cm.
GALVATOM
Haha, guys I was one of the people who made the chart, I just wanted to use an official image that depicted her scale. Others are right though, in the new magazine shot she is in front of Megs not stood side by side and in the Mainframe poster she isn't stood up straight. It's just a rough look at how big some of those characters might be in MP form. I'm glad it's been accurate as far as each MP being released so far but Blackarachnia is one of the characters whose height was harder to determine, so our unofficial chart could be wrong this time. We may have to wait until she's in hand to get real size comparison pics like the ones posted before with a straight angle and everyone lined up square.
Wh33ls
^ Oh? Ha-ha! I don't remember reading your post, but your right.
Cheetor's beast head is quite a bit bigger, making the eye swap easier and safer. If BA bot eyes swap, I'd be scared swapping them each time, for fear of snapping them.
Booster Gold
The eye swap for Cheetor was only on the beast mode, we've yet to see a robot mode one…however like I said on page 133, I do hope you are right.
Wh33ls
Well they did do the eye swap for Cheetor, so it sets the pecedent. I'd be more surprised if the eyes don't swap.
Deathcatg
Maybe there's a chance the eyes are optional in all three faces. I hope so since I like displaying head swapping action figures doing mid-talking or yelling in action poses.
mykkE
Here is my stab at the scale using Actar's picture (as his Primal was a bit large). In the below picture I scaled Primal on top of the other one so their shoulders, left foot, and head were matched up. I then move the picture over so Cheetor's right foot is lined back up with Blackarachnia's left foot:
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To me it looks like Cheetor will be JUST a bit taller, mainly due to his helmet. Cheetor is also posed more upright though. I am still fine with this but it does appear that Blackarachnia will be a bit too tall… of course I could be way off.
rapid_fire
I didn't think Terrorsaur was that big
opoptimus
So have we discussed why the screaming face has green eyes? To recreate when Tarantulas and her had the psychic link?
Do wish she had a regular non-green-eyed screaming face. And can't wait to see her smiling face in high-res!
jackisking
Have to give them some credit, alt mode looks kind of good on the magazine pics when you realize getting the bulbous part of the spider is smoke and mirrors manipulating the legs to give enough of a resemblance. Seeing how small she is and her backpack, there's not much to make up all that. She'll have her bad angles but 3/4 front and top she looks pretty good.
Booster Gold
Indeed I do agree that, like Primal's back peg, Blackarachnia's visor cord might suggest interaction with future figures. It's all very interesting and welcome however it's nothing new until it actually happens.
Seth Sunthay
I like Blackarachnia.
Verno
With regards to @lord ginrai's point about Megatron's adaptors, there is a difference between a piece that is designed to be reverse compatible (interacting with something that came before it) and a piece that is designed to be forwards compatible (interacting with something that doesn't exist).
With MP Primal, the plug on his back serves no purpose in and of itself. It's been mused that it could connect him with a future MP Rattrap, but we won't know for sure until such a figure is revealed.
It may turn out that the plug exists purely for the storage piece that came with the redeco version.
MP Blackarachnia's cable is in the same vein. We know she plugs it into Tarantulas on the show, but we will only know if this accessory does that once MP Tarantulas is revealed.
Booster Gold
Heh..don't forget Megatron comes with adaptors to interact with Dinobot's Stand
Coolerbefore
Packaging is most definitely usually one of the coolest parts of collecting toys.
TM2 Dinobot
The lack of her cyber-venom missile is actually very disappointing to me.