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Day 246: Snaptrap

The last and largest of the Seacon team is their leader, Snaptrap. Like the "Scramble City" type combiner teams launched in 1986, the Seacons follow form with the leader being a larger boxed toy that forms the torso of the combined robot, while the limbs are smaller and interchangeable. Snaptrap was available by himself or as part of a Seacon giftset in 1988. He turns into a mechanical tortoise with cannons extending from his shell. He was redeco'ed in 1998 as part of the Seacon pirate team in the Japanese Beast Wars line, and renamed Halfshell.



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