Thanks to 2005 Boards member LordZero, we can share for your our first look a the new Transformers Kingdom Darkarachnia Card.
This new card came with the Kingdom Waspinator figure which was recently spotted in Chile (together with Shadow Panther). Darkarachnia looks similar to the regular Blackarachnia design but she’s holding a long scepter. The card also shows a Cybertronian message which translates as:
“Becomes Darkarachnia.. herald of Unicron”
This is pretty similar to the Dinomus card we had previously reported which showed Dinobot turned as a herald of Unicron. See the mirrored image of this new card on this news post and then sound off on the 2005 Boards!
Blackarachnia1996
Did anybody get an extra Darkarachnia card they don’t want? Huge BA fan, so if anybody is able to help out, I would love you forever!
Dinocon93
My God, the predacons need some real fucking voyagers badly. That was dumb ass move to make a deluxe Scorponok that short when he could’ve gotten the studio series Hot Rod treatment. IDK why the original show made the mega-class that short to begin with.
Part of me is hoping Terrorsaur is some kind of Tigatron scenario where he is just an upscaled remold of Airazor. I recall one of the first listings had him at a $30 price so hopefully that actually is the case.
thunderingstatic
Transformers Kingdom Deluxe Class SHADOW PANTHER Review – YouTube
Laser_Optimus
Amazon exclusive that's part of their upcoming Golden Disk collection. Don't know when it'll be released yet, but Puffer and Road Ranger are supposed to be part of that series and factory samples have leaked so hopefully, we'll see Terrorsaur soon.
Dinobot Nuva
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RacerCheetor
Terrorsaur?
Laser_Optimus
My understanding is that wave 4 voyagers are still Tigatron and a PR of ER Starscream. Wave 5 is supposed to be Blaster and an unknown Kingdom figure being brought back from a previous wave similar to Tracks and Paleotrex in deluxe wave 4.
Dinobot Nuva
Best guesses at this point based on now-known case assortments, retailer system listings, and leaks:
Core Wave 4-
"Best of" Wave w/ cherry-picked figures from previous waves in new case
Deluxe Wave 4-
Shadow Panther/Waspinator + Tracks/Paleotrex (think it was those two from earlier in this thread?)
Voyager Wave 4-
Tigatron and ER Starscream Package Refresh
Deluxe Wave 5-
Pipes/Slammer + other re-releases
Voyager Wave 5-
Blaster w/ Eject Legacy pull-forward
marvel b
He might also be in wave 5 but since PvP got an early review of Tigatron I'd say the odds are better for him being a wave 4 lad.
barry
Aside from not being a terribly helpful reply to the question, perhaps this is just a poorly worded or ill-thought through response as it seems rather odd to ask someone requesting clarity on wave line up what the wave line up will be. Perhaps this might have been more appropriate if I was making some sort of definitive claim?
Still, in the spirit of responding to the question as helpfully as one can; potentially a PR.
Nevermore
Who would be the wave 4 Voyager Class figure, then?
barry
Am I correct in thinking that Tigatron is now going to be wave 5, along with Pipes and Slammer (and indeed Blaster)?
Patrickab7
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Time Warp Toys in St. Louis got in Wave 4 Deluxes. First U.S. sighting? (Sadly Waspy sold out before I could get one.)
Mardroid
A cheetah is of closer size to a leopard or jaguar, although they have more mass as they are heavier built animals.
The body proportions of a leopard / jaguar are closer to a tiger. By that, I mean the relative size of body parts to each other. Tigers, leopards and jaguars have shorter proportioned legs and thicker set bodies. (Actually, proportionally speaking, a jaguar would be the thickest set of the three.) Cheetahs are slim, long legged elegant animals, built for speed.
In an ideal world Shadow Panther could have a whole new mould, possibly similar to Tigatron (although I don’t think he looks quite right in beast form either, but they made some effort with the dimensions at least) but at deluxe size. But they weren’t going to do that, so Cheetor mould it is. I’d have been happy if they’d done something like they did with Ravage, use Cheetor’s mould as a starting point and built on that. In fact the retooling would be far less than required for Ravage (who also doesn’t look quite right in beast mode), as Shadow Panther’s robot mode would remain similar to Cheetor. Just shorten and thicken the animal limbs and slightly increase the size of the cat’s head, and I think you’d have a passable leopard. His robot mode would also look a bit more bulked and maybe a little shorter as a result, (two of his limbs he shares with his beast form, after all) but I think the differentiation from Cheetor would be good.
But in the end I guess it comes down to budget and mould reuse.
Lunatic Prime
About 50 % at most.
But a cheetah still looks closer to a leopard and jaguar to me than a tiger and therefore Cheetor is the better mold choice than Tigatron (except you'd remold him to look way less furry/bushy but that would be an extensive remold).
Gokai Rod
Blackarachnia after using Twitter: Darkarachnia
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Wtf Did not know this.
psychography2
Optimus became Nemesis
Dinobot became Dinomus
Megatron became Galvatron
Blackarachnia became Darkarachnia
The only one we're missing is that alternate universe where Unicron corrupted The Ark… Unless that's the real purpose of the Dark Ark card?
iuJacob
You’re just trolling at this point, right?
I’d be worried about your reading comprehension if you weren’t.
Q Prime
It was shown in @PrimeVsPrime 's review of Tigatron I believe.