3:02 "Pull off all the legs." I WONDER WHY ALL THE BALLJOINTS ARE SO LOOSE? MAYBE BECAUSE YOU ARE STRESSING THEM EVERY TIME YOU RIP THEM OFF HHHMMMMMMM??? ITS A MYSTERY!
"why would a spider be shiny and chromy?" Same reason as why a cheeta, a rat, a t-rex, and all the other transmetals are shiny and chrome; that's how transmetals are.
The robot arms in the front of the beast mode are called pedipalps. They're essentially what would be a scorpions claws, but for spiders they're an important part of feeding and mating
got this at the weekend and I love it! I'm really into all the beast era at the moment and for me I love the spider mode and chrome. they had a great style that needs to be revisited soon. like your reviews dude.
I own the SDCC Arcee variant of this mold and I don't have any of the problems you described on this video, joints are actually pretty good on mine. I actually like this figure a lot.
A mould of this figure was known as the infamous nipple transformer, underneath the chest were two unfortunately placed peg holes xD. I think it got recalled though.
Those arms at the front of the beast mode are called pedipalps. All arachnids have them. Most spiders just keep them close to their body almost all the time, so you rarely see them extended and in use.
here's a little tip for those pesky ball joints. This is what I did on a lot of my old figures before I lost them in a fire. I would take a little piece of paper and stuff it into the joint and attach it. This made the joints tighter and kept the appendages on the toy.
You could always try heating up the plactic on the leg (like holding it infront of a fan heater for a minute till you feel the plastic almost begin to get hot) and squeeze/compress the joint smaller so that grips the ball and or line/layer the ball joint with super glue to make it bigger. My advice DON'T keep removing the pieces from the ball joints as that fatigues them out!
i found one MiB while visiting japan last year.. now its on my fambot display.. been searching for this more then 10 years. part of me wanted to open it but part of me want to keep it sealed in the box..
Hasbro executive: Guys, the butt of the spider cannot be her butt, it’s too bulky Hasbro employee: why don’t we turn it into these massive shoulders? Hasbro executive: GENIUS MARK
Now I will agree yes the kibble on the shoulders & the back can make her quite back heavy but the case of the joints in the legs you make it sound like they are all bad & nothing redeeming I disagree as the one I own is quite tight in the legs & even though I have to use the 2 spiders legs to hold her balance that's just cause of the weight not cause of loose joints Also I highly disagree with your thoughts on her getting a Transmetal 2 body as it was to show her Character Growth & Evolution
You should use glue on the ball joints to tighten them up. Modelers do it all the time. A few thin layers of glue after it dries, BAM brand new ball joint. Also pulling off the legs like that are probably part of the reason the ball joints are loose as hell.
the wheel is for its vehicle mode. yes some how its has a vehicle mode. I don't remember I think I use to have Trans-metal one version where I think he is a bike or something.
They weren't necessarily loose they just weren't tight either. For comparison its like if the weight of TFP Prime's body had to be supported by 8 of his smoke stacks if they were on 2 ball joints, its too heavy to work. IMO the legs were entirely there to fit the look of a beast mode but never practically served as legs.
The joints are loose you can brush a thin layer of uv resin on it or nail polish so it snap in better. It's prob too late the Transmetal master piece will be releasing soon
arachnids only have 8 legs...some have 2 mouth-parts or other appendages that can grow longer but serve only in feeding and not walking...ie crabs have claws that aren't included in leg count...
If I had to guess what the spinning sections on the sides of the spider mode are for... I'd say that they're either part of a vehicle mode this toy has, or the relics of a vehicle mode that was lost in translation.
Based on the placement I'd say the robot arms are meant to be pedipalps. One problem, though: A.) they don't look like pedipalps in the least, and B.) pedipalps are male sex organs. Then again, the Beast Machines figure had them too.
Took me forever to find one back in 1999. She won't stand, mainly because of the weight of the figure. Many multilegged beast formers often have this problem.
I collected a lot of these guys back then. I leave mine in their beast mode and transform them whenever I feel like posing them and firing their missiles at some Lego displays. But yeah, Transmetal II Blackarachnia's balance isn't very good. 😮💨
I just got this for $20 today and quite like it - to me, the main problem is her high heels give no support. If she'd had heel spurs like most modern TFs, she'd probably stand ok on her own. And, of course, the hips from the "gimmick." As is, I've gotta use the spider legs to help prop her up too. But she looks great if not completely show accurate. Close enough, considering the era.
Just for knowledge's sake, the back section of spiders and insects is called the abdomen. The thorax is the middle section in insects (the head is the first section), and spiders and most other arachnids have a fused head and thorax, called the cephalothorax. :D
I actually don't mind this figure, particularly with the whole flipping sides gimmick. you don't normally get a figure like that. last i recall was cybertron sideways.
not on all of them, after parental complaints they were glues in place in prduction, i managed to git it off of mine, but now there are 2 holes placed like niples... its weird looking
It seems like that the only GOOD Blackarachnia figures are the Beast Machines and Animated figures. (The Legends one is just a retooling of the TFA figure and thus isn't her own figure)
This is one figure that really needs a revamp, if only to get something more show accurate. The problem is... As you said, she really didn't NEED to become a transmetal 2 in the show. I like the episodes where it happens, but then she does basically nothing afterwards in it. So there's basically no demand for this version of the character.
I've always liked this figure - don't have it but like it.... if I can find one cheap I would pick it up but not paying a lot of money for it... Funny thing is I JUST uploaded a Beast Wars Megatron last night LOL
Mine is still perfectly fine. I can't believe you take off her spider legs to transform it. -___- To anyone who wants it, I strongly recommend it, it's easily one of the best transformers ever.
"why would a spider be shiny and chromey" looks like you have never heard of the mirror spider before... also you didn't seem to have issue with transmetal tarantulas, which as you said, was your favorite figure AND a spider
Nah, I had one of these and the spider legs were loose out of the box when I bought it 10 years. They can barely support their own weight not to mention that of the figure in beast mode itself. It is perhaps the single worst kibble/backpack offender of the entire Beast Wars lines, robot mode was just as difficult to support as well.
Transmetals Tarantulas, that's not to say that the original Tarantulas sucks either, it is a fairly decent mold, and the 10th Anniversary deco on it is fantastic. Given the very small pool of spider transformers, I'd say they've made fewer that suck, than don't suck.
I was wondering why you lacked your usual enthusiasm at the beginning of the review, and having completed it I understand why. I am still interested in this figure, but I am glad for the warnings. Can I ask why you got it if you dont like spiders? Just curious
Spada, if you take a look at a Camel spider or a Huntsmen, I think I can see what kind of a look they where going for. Especially looking at a Camel spider. These creature don't use webs and have 'huge' fangs for pouncing on and piercing their prey. Also never understood why they felt both female beast wars figures needed an armor mode. Especially Black Arachnia. Though your the first person I watched review this figure make note of it.So I learned something new today. XD
I used a screwdriver and removed the bulkiness of the figure to look more show accurate, I never liked the beast mode anyway. AND you do realize you can take the purple bra thing off to make it look more realistic... right?
I've noticed that Blackarachnia figures in general tend to suffer from the same issues with being back heavy, from Beast Wars to Transformers Prime, they all suffer from some very bad designs that tend to have the figure having loose joints and being too back heavy. A shame really since the character from Beast Wars to Transformers Prime have been very good characters.
There is, she's called Arachnid, she's basically Black Arachnia with a different name, a helicopter mode and a kind of spider mode. The character was great, the toy was rubbish
She's still her, just different, but still very much the character in essence. She's more sadistic than previous versions of the character which sets her apart while still being the same character in concept
Different universe, but still the same character in concept and essence. Transformers Animated Black Arachnia didn't switch sides either, but she was still the character in concept and essence.
They all have a sadistic streak in them, even when she became a Maximal, Black Arachnia still had that sadistic streak to her, just like the later Transformers Animated version of the character and the even later Transformers Prime Arachnid.
By not making it look anything like the cg model, making its upper body virtually immobile, making it more top heavy than a beyblade with it's stilleto feet, and only giving her three of her spider legs that can only kinda move. *sigh* Hasbro really dropped the ball on that toy.
+Steven Dolce That's not how Cybertronian reproduction works. Though, one particular method does involve merging a portion of the sparks of two or more transformers to make a new spark. There are more methods than that, though. Some of it actually gets explained in the MTMTE comics.
I dislike your disdain for spiders. But i share your opinion on this figure i have spent years trying to get this figure to do anything other then fall down.
3:02 "Pull off all the legs." I WONDER WHY ALL THE BALLJOINTS ARE SO LOOSE? MAYBE BECAUSE YOU ARE STRESSING THEM EVERY TIME YOU RIP THEM OFF HHHMMMMMMM??? ITS A MYSTERY!
Forrest Estes a year late but Balt is basically the damage control reviewer 😂
"why would a spider be shiny and chromy?"
Same reason as why a cheeta, a rat, a t-rex, and all the other transmetals are shiny and chrome; that's how transmetals are.
lmao baltmatrix pretty much makes a big deal out of everything he doesnt like about a figure.
I honestly wonder if he should stop collecting transformers lmao
IKR. That's a weird as heck complaint to make about a Transmetal figure. They're supposed to look bizarre.
oh quiet you
🤫🤐
I know I'm in the minority, but I just love everything about this figure. I just wish I could find mine.
And he never mentioned the infamous chest plate error....
The robot arms in the front of the beast mode are called pedipalps. They're essentially what would be a scorpions claws, but for spiders they're an important part of feeding and mating
You forgot the "strip her top off" gimmick lol
Tim5corpion haha XD
They removed that in later copies by either a)gluing the top on or b)molding those parts together
Haha
Gross.
@@MrsDizazter
Aww that sucks 😫
This figure desperately needs an update when they get to it in Generations and everything in the next couple of years
I don’t think the Kingdom line is doing the Transmetals and Fuzors
@@epicphantom589 I know, emphasis on "in the next couple of years". We know what's gonna be in kingdom
@@chadderbug7587 Ok. Yeah, I would like to see a new transmetal Blackarachnia with a better design
Imagine if they had ditched the kicking gimmick and they had used the spider legs to create the robot mode legs or arms to reduce kibble.
got this at the weekend and I love it! I'm really into all the beast era at the moment and for me I love the spider mode and chrome. they had a great style that needs to be revisited soon. like your reviews dude.
Hotrodney prime Well fancy seeing you here lol :)
Is the figure really that loose or is that just Balt's copy?
I own the SDCC Arcee variant of this mold and I don't have any of the problems you described on this video, joints are actually pretty good on mine.
I actually like this figure a lot.
A mould of this figure was known as the infamous nipple transformer, underneath the chest were two unfortunately placed peg holes xD. I think it got recalled though.
Those arms at the front of the beast mode are called pedipalps. All arachnids have them. Most spiders just keep them close to their body almost all the time, so you rarely see them extended and in use.
Blackarachnia was among my personal favorite characters in BW and that alone makes me like this figure.
here's a little tip for those pesky ball joints. This is what I did on a lot of my old figures before I lost them in a fire. I would take a little piece of paper and stuff it into the joint and attach it. This made the joints tighter and kept the appendages on the toy.
I can confirm that this works. Poor old Deadend was floppy as a frog before I gave him the paper therapy.
I'm so sorry for your lost :c
You could always try heating up the plactic on the leg (like holding it infront of a fan heater for a minute till you feel the plastic almost begin to get hot) and squeeze/compress the joint smaller so that grips the ball and or line/layer the ball joint with super glue to make it bigger.
My advice DON'T keep removing the pieces from the ball joints as that fatigues them out!
i found one MiB while visiting japan last year.. now its on my fambot display.. been searching for this more then 10 years. part of me wanted to open it but part of me want to keep it sealed in the box..
That's the abdomen.
Hasbro executive: Guys, the butt of the spider cannot be her butt, it’s too bulky
Hasbro employee: why don’t we turn it into these massive shoulders?
Hasbro executive: GENIUS MARK
Lol!
It's amazing how opinions change dramatically.(according to your description)
No, the part he pointed at was the abdomen. The cephalothorax is the region that all the legs are connected to.
With Black archnia being so loose no wonder all da guys like her ~lol
"rimshot"
she is hot
Now I will agree yes the kibble on the shoulders & the back can make her quite back heavy
but the case of the joints in the legs you make it sound like they are all bad & nothing redeeming I disagree as the one I own is quite tight in the legs & even though I have to use the 2 spiders legs to hold her balance that's just cause of the weight not cause of loose joints
Also I highly disagree with your thoughts on her getting a Transmetal 2 body as it was to show her Character Growth & Evolution
You should use glue on the ball joints to tighten them up. Modelers do it all the time. A few thin layers of glue after it dries, BAM brand new ball joint. Also pulling off the legs like that are probably part of the reason the ball joints are loose as hell.
Glue or liquid rubber
the wheel is for its vehicle mode. yes some how its has a vehicle mode. I don't remember I think I use to have Trans-metal one version where I think he is a bike or something.
When it comes to Beast Wars designs, and I loved most of them, this version of Blackarachnia is the only one I did not like.
And the back "bulb" on spiders is the abdomen. The front is the cephalothorax which is the head and thorax fused.
They weren't necessarily loose they just weren't tight either. For comparison its like if the weight of TFP Prime's body had to be supported by 8 of his smoke stacks if they were on 2 ball joints, its too heavy to work. IMO the legs were entirely there to fit the look of a beast mode but never practically served as legs.
The joints are loose you can brush a thin layer of uv resin on it or nail polish so it snap in better. It's prob too late the Transmetal master piece will be releasing soon
BTW, why get excited over a spider toy if you hate them in real life?
She was my favorite beast wars figure.
i have this figure and have all the same complaints but i like her robot mode
oh yeah, HEY Balt, if you put superglue around those ball joints then it should tighten then right up, maybe regular glue
did you knew that the chest "armor" can be removed and it two hole at a very... awkward place. just letting you know if you don't
arachnids only have 8 legs...some have 2 mouth-parts or other appendages that can grow longer but serve only in feeding and not walking...ie crabs have claws that aren't included in leg count...
This is one of the transmetal 2 figures that I always wanted to own.
If I had to guess what the spinning sections on the sides of the spider mode are for... I'd say that they're either part of a vehicle mode this toy has, or the relics of a vehicle mode that was lost in translation.
Based on the placement I'd say the robot arms are meant to be pedipalps. One problem, though: A.) they don't look like pedipalps in the least, and B.) pedipalps are male sex organs. Then again, the Beast Machines figure had them too.
perhaps it's something along the lines of how tigatron had a female beast mode. perhaps blackarachnia had a male spider body.
Actually, both sexes have pedipalps, it's just that on the males the tips are enlarged like clubs, while they're uniform in thickness on females.
@@DarkdustDragon that's why when spiders mate they go fisting.
Took me forever to find one back in 1999. She won't stand, mainly because of the weight of the figure. Many multilegged beast formers often have this problem.
Just scored one off of ebay and I love it. Been collecting a lot of blackarachnia figures lately. Each creepier than the last.
"This thing terrifies me,". Me:"I'm hoping it doesn't jump out of my screen"
While watching this I was scared to bump my monitor as I thought it would just make the figure fall haha. I am an idiot I know.
I collected a lot of these guys back then. I leave mine in their beast mode and transform them whenever I feel like posing them and firing their missiles at some Lego displays. But yeah, Transmetal II Blackarachnia's balance isn't very good. 😮💨
I just got this for $20 today and quite like it - to me, the main problem is her high heels give no support. If she'd had heel spurs like most modern TFs, she'd probably stand ok on her own. And, of course, the hips from the "gimmick." As is, I've gotta use the spider legs to help prop her up too. But she looks great if not completely show accurate. Close enough, considering the era.
The fuzors and transmetal 2 lines always reminded me of The Fly remake. horrible monstrosities you don't want to look at, but can't look away either.
I never saw Blackarachnia in any store when I was a kid. Ever. And...maybe that's a blessing in disguise, to be honest...
Just for knowledge's sake, the back section of spiders and insects is called the abdomen. The thorax is the middle section in insects (the head is the first section), and spiders and most other arachnids have a fused head and thorax, called the cephalothorax. :D
man...one day if I ever see you at a con...I need to buy you a drink...either a beer or a soda or what ever...lol LOVE your work...
to reattach the leg you could use floor polish to tighten the ball joint
Wait, I’m confused. Does she have a 3rd mode or was that “defense mode” thing it? 8:56
I actually don't mind this figure, particularly with the whole flipping sides gimmick. you don't normally get a figure like that. last i recall was cybertron sideways.
The spinning bits are most likely for the vehicle mode
The robot arms are pedipalps and the "mandibles" are chelicerae, which are the "fangs" of spiders.
not on all of them, after parental complaints they were glues in place in prduction, i managed to git it off of mine, but now there are 2 holes placed like niples... its weird looking
isn't the chest plate removeable
Only the first run, Hasbro later "corrected" that design "flaw".
Always wanted this figure, then I bought the new Transart version and I havent looked back. I have a review on my channel if you want to see it
It seems like that the only GOOD Blackarachnia figures are the Beast Machines and Animated figures. (The Legends one is just a retooling of the TFA figure and thus isn't her own figure)
Here's hoping for another shot. Eh, who am I kidding? It'll probably go towards another Bumblebee mold... yay...
I have this mint in box. When I got her she was super rare and I just never took her out of the packaging.
I loved spiders as a kid because of this toy! Blackarachnia had one of the coolest beast modes ever in my opinion
you know,black widow spider are becoming to be very deadly now.
Have you tried applying a light coat of super glue to the ball joints?
Wish they would reissue the transmetals.
We got tf wfc kingdom beastwars figures
This is one figure that really needs a revamp, if only to get something more show accurate. The problem is... As you said, she really didn't NEED to become a transmetal 2 in the show. I like the episodes where it happens, but then she does basically nothing afterwards in it. So there's basically no demand for this version of the character.
I've always liked this figure - don't have it but like it.... if I can find one cheap I would pick it up but not paying a lot of money for it... Funny thing is I JUST uploaded a Beast Wars Megatron last night LOL
If you turn all the legs' first segments over so that the socket faces down, she can stand on her legs.
That's really bad QC on those legs, but it may also be the amount of weight the figure has and the fact it's meant to be supported by thin legs
hotter then along came the spider
actually i clicked on this video because i found the beast mode really cool
Mine is still perfectly fine. I can't believe you take off her spider legs to transform it. -___-
To anyone who wants it, I strongly recommend it, it's easily one of the best transformers ever.
"why would a spider be shiny and chromey" looks like you have never heard of the mirror spider before... also you didn't seem to have issue with transmetal tarantulas, which as you said, was your favorite figure AND a spider
I think pulling the legs off to transform it over and over again may have contributed to the wear of that ball joint
Nah, I had one of these and the spider legs were loose out of the box when I bought it 10 years. They can barely support their own weight not to mention that of the figure in beast mode itself. It is perhaps the single worst kibble/backpack offender of the entire Beast Wars lines, robot mode was just as difficult to support as well.
Not to criticize you but the part you were talking about in the beginning were you said the back is the thorax but it is called an abdomen
Wheels are the vehicle gimmick. All transmittals had a third high speed mode.
No she's not wierd she's cool
Why did they make it possible to remove her chest armor? Tj omega told about it
Transmetals Tarantulas, that's not to say that the original Tarantulas sucks either, it is a fairly decent mold, and the 10th Anniversary deco on it is fantastic. Given the very small pool of spider transformers, I'd say they've made fewer that suck, than don't suck.
U didnt even mention the removable chestplate with robonipples. No joke u can do that
there was the Beast Machines Blackarachnia, which I think looked decent.
I was wondering why you lacked your usual enthusiasm at the beginning of the review, and having completed it I understand why. I am still interested in this figure, but I am glad for the warnings. Can I ask why you got it if you dont like spiders? Just curious
They have a vehicle kinda mode right?
She looks so much better once you undo the torso and remove the purple chest plate.
Spada, if you take a look at a Camel spider or a Huntsmen, I think I can see what kind of a look they where going for. Especially looking at a Camel spider. These creature don't use webs and have 'huge' fangs for pouncing on and piercing their prey.
Also never understood why they felt both female beast wars figures needed an armor mode. Especially Black Arachnia. Though your the first person I watched review this figure make note of it.So I learned something new today. XD
some invent a timemachine so all of us can buy one from the series
Spiders are awesome and its shiny because there suppose to resemble metal
spiders are horrible, a chilean kid just died recently
I used a screwdriver and removed the bulkiness of the figure to look more show accurate, I never liked the beast mode anyway. AND you do realize you can take the purple bra thing off to make it look more realistic... right?
but seriously awesome review for an awesome figure
Much like movies when you tell people not to get something, sometimes they get it anyway 😅
did you know the blue stuff on her chest is actually removable?
On all of this figure before the recall, the chest armor was removible,... bad peg plasement.
floor Polish will help with the loose ball joint
I've noticed that Blackarachnia figures in general tend to suffer from the same issues with being back heavy, from Beast Wars to Transformers Prime, they all suffer from some very bad designs that tend to have the figure having loose joints and being too back heavy.
A shame really since the character from Beast Wars to Transformers Prime have been very good characters.
There is, she's called Arachnid, she's basically Black Arachnia with a different name, a helicopter mode and a kind of spider mode. The character was great, the toy was rubbish
She's still her, just different, but still very much the character in essence. She's more sadistic than previous versions of the character which sets her apart while still being the same character in concept
Different universe, but still the same character in concept and essence. Transformers Animated Black Arachnia didn't switch sides either, but she was still the character in concept and essence.
As I said, different universe, different continuity
They all have a sadistic streak in them, even when she became a Maximal, Black Arachnia still had that sadistic streak to her, just like the later Transformers Animated version of the character and the even later Transformers Prime Arachnid.
I think the Japanese version has vehicle mode
+Timothy Barcus the one with vehicle mode is called tarantulas, its a predacon, CMIIW
theres a different transmetal figure called tarantulas that has this motorcycle like vehicle mode but hes based off of a tarantula
2:40 those are called pedipalps. They're basically arms to hold prey during a meal.
Nathan Laughlin don't they also use them in mating?
Actually yes they're basically penises
Nathan Laughlin so when I thought this huge spider was biting me with them...
🙂*internal screaming*
I got fucked by a spider😐
By not making it look anything like the cg model, making its upper body virtually immobile, making it more top heavy than a beyblade with it's stilleto feet, and only giving her three of her spider legs that can only kinda move. *sigh* Hasbro really dropped the ball on that toy.
Question: Has Hasbro ever made a spider not suck?
The 2 claws in front are legs (arachnids have 10 legs)
Sorry I ment to say where you said not were you said
It sucks that Blackarachnia and Silverbolt didn't give birth to a child.
+Master Farr that's a sexy thought
+Steven Dolce That's not how Cybertronian reproduction works. Though, one particular method does involve merging a portion of the sparks of two or more transformers to make a new spark. There are more methods than that, though.
Some of it actually gets explained in the MTMTE comics.
+Master Farr Hey, Cath.
Master Farr
Check the TF wiki
+Steven Dolce Hey I know there kid could be called ........BLACK BOLT ! ~lol
I dislike your disdain for spiders. But i share your opinion on this figure i have spent years trying to get this figure to do anything other then fall down.