BEAST WARS TIGERHAWK

This figure is from 1999. He is a Maximal. Tigerhawk appeared at the end of the third series of Beast wars the cartoon. He Appeared in Beast wars episode "Other visitors" The Voc wanted to end the Beast wars as they saw the damage Megatron had done to time so they thought they would have to destroy Megatron to stop him escalating things further. They fused Tigertron and Airazer together to form Tigerhawk who the Vok then possessed. Tigerhawk went to prehistoric earth and destroyed the Predecon base "The Dark Side" All the Predecons managed to escape before Tigerhawk landed. Tigerhawk created a tornado that blew all the Predecons away except Megatron. There was a big fight which ended in Tigerhawk defeating Megatron. Optimus Primal turned up and tried to stop the fight because he knew that Megatron was carrying the original megatron spark. If this was destroyed it would have destroyed history and ended time. Tigerhawk thought that Optimus was interfering so he opened up the ground and swallowed him. Tarantulas ambushed Tigerhawk hitting him with his spider drones which stunned him. he was then dragged back to Tarantulas's lab. there he attempted to reprogramme him so he would serve him. Tarantulas did not know that the Vok possessed him. the vok took revenge and possessed tarantulas. he fired at the Vok but the Vok are ghost like so his shots went right through blasted the turret which swung round and blasted him instead. The machine in the process overloaded. Cheetor can to the rescue and dragged Tigerhawk clear and the explosion which destroyed the lab. Tigertron and Airazer spark went into Tigerhawk and he was brought back to life as a combined being.
Tigerhawk appeared in the grand final of Beast wars where he sacrificed himself to slow Nemesis down. This was called "Nemesis"

FUNCTION Vok Emissary

MOTTO; "Violence will not be tolerated- surrender or be destroyed"

Bio; A puzzling new cybernetic entity. Tigerhawk is the result of an advanced alien species. Apprehension of the former Tigertron and Airazor. Mysteriously combined and reconfigured.  Tigerhawk was sent back as a profit of peace to end the long war between the Maximal and Predecon. Possess elemental powers to summon earthquakes, electrical storms and tsunamis. has Vok alien enhanced intelligence and an incredible arsenal of weaponry including an ion deminisher that paralyses enemies. Totally fearless, noble and ferocious in battle. He is an inspiration to his fellow maximals

SATS; Strength 8.2, Intelligence 10, Speed 8.1, Endurance 7.3, Rank 7.0, Courage 8.4, Firepower 9.7, Skill 8.4

Robot mode

Beast mode side

Beast mode front

Battle mode

Unofficial tank mode

Talon grabbing gimmick

Tigerhawks beast mode looks great. It is really impressive and menacing. A flying tiger is a great idea. There is good detail on the feathers. One of my feathers is a bit warped which is annoying.

His mouth can open and close with a blue tongue which can also move up and down.

He has gold eyes on the figure but glowing green eyes were used in the cartoon.

Fur details are nice with blue chrome.

Bird talons are on the back legs instead of the front. I suppose I am used to seeing  this on Silverbolts beast mode. This is actually quite similarly designed to his beast mode.

He is heavily armoured. Front tiger claws and rear talons. Tiger teeth and Gatling guns on his wings.

His bird talons have a gimmick. If you push a button they will close on anything put in the way. See the picture above where I have my finger trapped in them.

He has a lever on his back where when you push it forwards his wings flip down and some spikes flip up and the guns flip round and auto fire missiles. You do however have to hold it in a certain way to fire them.

There are also some switches on his wings which flips them  round to fire feather missiles. Rather like Silverbolt who also does this.

He also has a battle mask which tucks behind his head and you can flip out to cover his tiger face. This makes him look like Battle cat out of HE- Man.

With the mask down this is battle mode.

He has good articulation in the legs.

His tiger head does have some articulation but in Beast mode he is staring at his toes. Not good for flight mode.

He does not have much robot gibble but a robot arm on his back. The guns look like exhaust pipes coming out the back of the tiger.

He has an unofficial tank mode which might have been official during manufacture. He has wheels and a cockpit which would make sense. It is a good tank mode . The missiles launchers attach to the arm. There is a bit of beast gibble but not too bad. A neat little tank. I wish the tiger head could go else where though.

He has a spark crystal in a translucent green cylinder at the core of the figure. I tried to take a picture but it is difficult to catch the detail.

He has technical detailing around the crystal.

His robot mode has a barbarian look to it. The bird talons end up on his chest. He has a loin cloth detail. His head is skeleton like.

On one arm he has a cannon. The other arm can have missile launchers which can look a little awkward.

There is a gold Maximal insignia on his chest and some nice moulding.

He has fake hydraulic pistons on his feet and fake tiger feet that fold out from his feet.

Good articulations but his arms can become unpegged from his torso.

He looks very nice and is quite a big figure.

Overall is a superb figure and a must have for all Beast wars fans. His transformation can be a bit complicated.

He was repainted in the Universe 1.0 line as Razorclaw. The tiger became a panther.