Artifact of the Week: Transformers: Beast Wars and Beast Wars II Finger Puppets
I guess these are finger puppets. What’s odd about that is that it isn’t the only Beast Wars Finger Puppets series. Kabaya also did a series of finger puppets for Beast Wars II called Beast Fighters and for Beast Wars Neo called Beast Battlers. I did a blog on the Beast Fighters. You can read that here. I have since fount the Lio Convoy and completed that set.
These finger puppets are not made by Kabaya. I’m not sure how these were available. I’ve never seen a Destrons (Predacons) box set, or any Beast Wars II Destrons, so this might be all of them.
I have had the Beast Wars Cybertron (Maximals) box set for a long time, around twenty-five years, hence the crappy low-res photo. It included super deformed figures of Optimus Primal, Dinobot, Rattrap, Cheetor, and Rhinox. What’s really cool about these is that even at this small scale, they are all very well painted.
I just picked up this loose set at Botcon 2024. It includes Megatron, Scorponok, Tarantulas, Terrorsaur, and Waspinator. Like their Cybertron counterparts, the paintjobs on these guys are great.
Beast Wars II Cybertron (Maximals) box set included Lio Convoy, Tasmania Kid, Bigmos, Apache, and Scuba (at least I think that’s Scuba, I couldn’t find a picture online that showed the one in the lower right corner.
As always, you can find over 22,000 Transformers artifacts from every Transformers series and generation at TFMuseum.com.
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