Bot a Day: Daily Drawings

The last of the strange Beast Wars Mutants is Icebird, who transforms from a polar bear to a snowy owl. The bear head can pull back to reveal his robot head, the last vestige of his since mutated-away robot mode. Icebird was available in 2000. 

The next Beast Wars Mutant is Poison Bite. He turns from a scorpion to a very colorful barracuda. His robot face is concealed in the sting at the end of the scorpion tail, which is pretty darn creepy. Poison Bite was available in 2000. 

Next in the Beast Wars Mutants line is Razor Claw. Though a single-word version of this name has been used before, this is a new character and not the Predacon lion or the Predacon crab from before. He has no robot mode, but turns from a velociraptor into a wolverine. In raptor mode, his robot head can pop out from the dino head. He was available in 2000. 

Finishing off the Beast Wars line with their most peculiar subgroups: the Mutants. Beast Wars Mutants are neither Maximal nor Predacon, but are former Transformers that have lost their ability to return to robot mode. Instead, they change from one animal to another. Soundwave here turns from a bat to an alligator. He has no robot mode, but there is a robot face lurking in the bat's mouth. The Mutants were actually a reuse of designs originally intended for the Animorphs toyline that fizzled out in 1999. This subset was available in stores in 2000 with each mutant sold separately.  This is the 300th daily drawing posted in 2021. This year has flown by.