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The book Transformers Legacy, a collection of various Transformers box art has some examples of pre-Transformers art, including insect modes of the Deluxe Insecticons which started off as Armored Insect Battalion Beetras by TakaToku Toys. They were later sold to Bandai, later sold to Hasbro, but not Takara which resulted in their exclusion from the cartoon. As I was working on the recolour of Beet-Gugal to create a Chop Shop Insect mode using the Transformers toy as a colour scheme, I wondered about how he might look with the colour scheme of the original three Insecticons. I imagine the pincers to be chromed like Shrapnel's were. I have to say it is a total shame Hasbro did not release him like this, but given the effort to remove them from media it is not surprising. Too bad because I think this looks pretty bad ass.

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The book Transformers Legacy, a collection of various Transformers box art has some examples of pre-Transformers art, including insect modes of the Deluxe Insecticons which started off as Armored Insect Battalion Beetras by TakaToku Toys. They were later sold to Bandai, later sold to Hasbro, but not Takara which resulted in their exclusion from the cartoon. As I was working on the recolour of Beet-Gugal to create a Chop Shop Insect mode using the Transformers toy as a colour scheme, I wondered about how he might look with the colour scheme of the original three Insecticons. I imagine the pincers to be chromed like Shrapnel's were. I have to say it is a total shame Hasbro did not release him like this, but given the effort to remove them from media it is not surprising. Too bad because I think this looks pretty bad ass.