We’re back with our next gallery from the upcoming Generations IDW Deluxes Wave 3, and this time we’ve got a Predacon for you. We’re not talking about the dragons from Beast Hunters or the original five from Generation 1 either, we’re talking about the Beast Wars Predacons and Hall of Fame Fan’s Choice winner Waspinator!
Waspinator is one of the two complete new molds in this assortment of Generations Deluxes. He is an excellently done little deluxe toy, and very accurate to the look of the CGI model of the character in the show in robot mode. The beast mode suffers a little with exposed robot hands, but is otherwise an excellently realized beast mode. In beast mode, Waspinator’s insect legs can be adjusted to allow him to balance on them – which was something very few insects from the Beast Wars era could accomplish. In both modes Waspinator’s wings can be made to flap at the push of a button, which is a cool feature but I’d have liked a way to lock them in the “up” position for flying poses. In robot mode, Waspinator’s knees are a little restricted, which does limit his poseability a little.
Overall though these are very minor flaws which are easy enough to overlook. Waspinator is a solid release with an excellent design and a brilliant likeness to the show design of Waspinator. If you’re a fan of Beast Wars or just a fan of Waspinator as a character, this is one toy that you will want to pick up. As always, open up the link below to see our gallery and judge for yourself:
Sol Fury
The thought had crossed my mind – I'd like to see him as Ransack personally, since it's such a different deco. I have a hunch that we'll see Buzzsaw out of this sooner or later – probably with an update of the alternate head – my gut tells me that'd be a Club / Botcon thing. though.
bsutton1
Anybody think that the mold could be used for Venom or Ransack?
Verno
If BBTS could hurry up and get Waspinator 'in-stock', that would be great.
Jetstorm
Ok cool. Because I just saw all the Rhinox stuff being posted and I was lucky that he was still on HTS so I could order him, thought I'd get Waspinator too. Hopefully soon, I'd rather just get it online (for a fair price) than drive around looking for him at the stores.
Stepper
Waspinator finally,am happy.
BWfan86
No, at least not yet. He has been reported to be seen at both Target and Walmart stores.
LegendAntihero
Waspinator is awesome and he hardly looks robotic
Jetstorm
Was this ever available on the Hasbro Toy Shop? Just wondering if I missed out or not, or if he hasn't been for sale yet.
Otherwise I'll just keep an eye out for him in the stores.
LegendAntihero
Wasp looks beautiful. I'm glad I held out on getting Wasp until his Generations toy came out
Novaburnhilde
Both Rhinox and Waspinator look amazing. Both in robot and beast modes. The only small thing I can think of, is the fact that I feel like Waspinator's eyes should be purple-ish, but that can be easily fixed.
Sol Fury
Haha yes pretty much! There was a temptation in another gallery I was doing to have bits flying off too, but my worry is always that I'd break something in the process. I'll leave the glory of doing a "destroyed Waspinator" pic to another
Infosaur
What, didn't have the nerve to dissemble the toy for a "Wazpinator hurt all over hiz body" pic?
Stepper
Waspinator will be my number one figure on my Christmas list.
bonewire
Ditto
cheetor71
I want this and Rhinox. They both look incredible
Sol Fury
He's next on my to do list, so hopefully all being well I can share some pics of him in the not too distant future
Not so much a case of saving as my Skids came with two left hips so I've been doing the others first while getting that sorted out. Fortunately my good friend Shockscream was able to hook me up with a right hip (which arrived in an envelope marked "don't let them take Skids!")
Tankor hasn't shown up yet to my knowledge. I'm a couple of issues behind myself so he may have appeared already. Thing with Tankor though is that it is a name which sometimes gets used as a workaround for other names that are unavailable, so it might be an alternative to one of those for all we know. Time will tell – him and Rattrap are meant to be Wave 9, which is the next one out after the Starscream / Skywarp / Scoop of Mini-Cons wave (which is up next). We'll probably see them at Toy Fair.
BWfan86
I don't think it's too bad. The only flaw (and yes it is kind of a big one) is the fact that you can see his robot arms in beast mode.
moreprimeland
Amazing, will have to add this one to my BW collection for sure.
Kudos to the Gallery folks…very nice pix!!
NemiMonkey
YES!!! He can wield himself.
These tantalizing pictures are making me want Waspy more so than I already did before. Come on HTS list these guys already so I can give you my monies.
Spider 001
The alt mode looks absolutely horrible! What the hell were they thinking???