TransFormers Legacy Tarantulas

While I've amassed a fair old collection of original Beast Wars toys, Tarantulas is one character of whom I've never owned a single toy. Even the Telemocha re-release didn't grab me... Though that's perhaps more because I just felt the original Beast Wars toy failed to adequately represent either him or Blackarachnia, and the TransMetals upgrade never really appealed to me because I was very late to my appreciation for its ostentatious chrome and gaudy colourschemes. Nowadays, I'd be somewhat keen to get my hands on the TransMetals version, if it weren't for the fact that I'm basically out of space on my single Beast Wars/Machines shelf.

After the third chapter of Hasbro's War for Cybertron Trilogy turned into a haphazard convergence of G1 and Beast Wars, I ended up buying more of the latter selection than the former... But, while two versions of Kingdom Blackarachnia were produced, Tarantulas remained notable by his absence.

But then Legacy arrived, and it wasn't long before Tarantulas was announced. It wouldn't be unreasonable to presume that he'd effectively be Kingdom Tarantulas, rebranded for the newer line... but, to my surprise, that has turned out not to be the case. Come into my parlour, and lets find out what makes this figure something different.