The eight-legged femme fatale of the Predacons, Blackarachnia is a double agent loyal to Megatron (or is she?). Though her portrayal in the Beast Wars animated series warranted a new animation model that emphasized her gender, her toy was a simple cost-saving repaint of another spider in the Predacon ranks, Tarantulas. Even her beast mode is pretty generic, though her coloring tries to suggest she's a black widow spider, even if her anatomy doesn't. She was available in 1996. She proved to be popular enough and distinctive enough to warrant her own body molds going forward, whereas Tarantulas eventually stalled out.
