Halfshell
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Halfshell is a fictional character from the Transformers series. He was a reoccuring villain in the Beast Wars II anime series.
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Beast Wars II
Halfshell is the captain of the Seacon Space Pirates. He is a merciless foe in combat and is very protective of his crew. He combines with his fellow Seacons to form God Neptune.[1]
Animated series
The Seacons appeared in episode #21 of Beast Wars II.
The Seacons were featured in episode #22, "Megastorm's Reconing" where Halfshell had a talk with Megastorm. He later fought Scuba. This is one of the few episodes where he was depicted in robot mode outside the combining stock sequences.
The Seacon Space Pirates appeared in Beast Wars II movie "Lio Convoy Crisis". In this episode the Seacons fought the Jointron Brothers.
IDW Publishing
The opening sequence of Beast Wars: The Ascending features Magmatron, trapped in a temporal limbo, watching a fight between Dirgegun, Saberback, Killerpunch, Guiledart and Halfshell just before the planet Cybertron is destroyed by Shokaract and Unicron.
Halfshell had a biography printed in the Beast Wars Sourcebook by IDW Publishing.[2]
Toys
- Beast Wars II God Neptune (1998)
- Halfshell is a recolor of the Generation 1 Deception Snaptrap. He was packaged together with his 4 fellow Seacon Space Pirates.
- The Halfshell toy stands 17 centimeters tall in robot mode and the character is supposed to stand 4 meters tall. This makes the toy about 1/24 scale.
- This toy was later recolored into Universe Snaptrap.
Unlicensed toys
- Reprolabels Beast Wars II God Neptune (2007)
- A set of replacement labels for the Beast Wars II Seacons.[3]
