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Day 130: Predacon, Side Burn and Skid-Z

For years now, Beast Wars and Robots in Disguise used Predacon as the name of a faction, but Armada did away with that. Still, to bolster the popular toyline, Hasbro dipped into Beast Wars molds and brought the 1998 Megatron Transmetal toy back into action, recasting it in new colors and adding Powerlinx mounting points to fit Mini-Cons. It was reimagined as a new character too, with the name Predacon. As bizarre as it may seem fitting cars onto mounting pegs atop a mechanical dinosaur, Predacon came with two Mini-Cons -- Side Burn and Skid-Z, two names recycled from Robots in Disguise. Predacon was available in 2003.




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