Transformers Universe Blackarachnia Review

Yesterday, I got my box full of TFs in the mail from C-310 on TFormers, which I highly recommend trading/ buying from. One of my favorites right out of the box was Blackarachnia. Blackarachnia into a Black Widow, because, I'm guessing, it's more feminine, yet dangerous. TO top all that, I think Black Widows mate, then "backstab" the other spider and kill them as she bores their mini spiders. It all fits in to her personality of being really feminine in structure and emotional, plus she does turn into a Maximal for a period of time with Silverbolt, only to become Predacon again...In Beast Wars they featured the word, technorganic, which is like a robot or mech with characteristics of a real life animal. Blackarachnia is a robot, but she turns into a spider. It all works out for her...

As I stated in the paragraph above, her alternate mode is a black widow, sort of- she's definitely not black though. She doesn't have her black and cheetah paint scheme like her first Beast War appearance, but then again this isn't the first mold, it's the Transmetal mold. She has mainly purple and a yellowish orange throughout the majority of the body. There are some silver "tattoos" with pinkish outlines, and some neon green near her spinneret and the abdomen, and her six eyes are red. She does feature some translucent parts, like her cephalothorax and some clear windows on her abdomen to reveal her alliance, which is Decepticon, not Predacon, or Maximal, or what other alliances she has been part of. Underneath is a red hourglass.

The mold is pretty good, but has it's flaws. One of which is the larger legs, they snap together fro robot mode, but in Spider Mode, you see pegs and holes, and some metal brackets. There is some cool detail though. Keeping with the technorganic, she does feature blood vessel like sculpts and wholes that look like marrow, maybe, but spiders don't have bones. Another is the front pair of legs aren't recognizable at first, they are much shorter. The gimmick is press the pedipalps together and the chelicera will move up and the front legs will move outward.

Transformation is cool and a bit practical. When transforming back into Spider Mode from Robot Mode, be extra careful with her larger sets on legs. There are lots of pegs and some small pegs that might snap off.

This mold is the best for her, no others can compare. It's more mature than the animated one and less bulkier than the first release. She still has the purple and yellowish orange, and now she shows some dark grey on her hips and upper arms, some silver at her face, shoulders, breast, abs, and waist. Also red lips, eyes, and black pupils. Paint apps are pretty nicely done, I had no problems on my figure.

The sculpting is great, it's pure feminism at it's best. He has big hips, like not even normal hourglass, the top is more smaller compared to the hips, more like two times smaller. Her abdomen from spider mode folds on top on the chephalothorax creating a big butt, and it's nothing to lie about. Her legs are like Chun Li's, big thighs, but on a side views it's thin for quick movement. She does have breasts... It's pretty busty, and I'll leave it at that. Her face is something that bugged me a bit. There are panels on it, which makes her old with wrinkles. From a distance it doesn't look as bad. Her visors on her head can fold up to reveal two more sets of eyes, thus creating six eyes like her Spider mode. I like keeping it in one piece though, so it looks like a hairband. Also her ass, will bite you, she has some legs and fangs hiding under there...Another thing to notice is the her and Crystal Widow have the forearms switched, with the spikes up towards the biceps, just pop those off and switch them with the spikes facing down.

Artiulation is good, not superb for agile movements though. Her head is hinged below the chin and on a swivel where the neck connects to the torso. It's strange, they could have done a ball joint, but did two separate joints at two different locations. The shoulders and elbows are ball joints, the forearms are swivel, and the two outer fingers on each hand are hinged, the middle fingers don't move. Her waist is on a ball joint, as well as her hips. The knee and ankle are hinged. It's nothing too bad, the ball joints give lots of movement though.

I think this is the best mold for Blackarachnia and nobody else. The Arcee repaints don't really work. This figure is pretty expensive though because of that reason. If you could get it somewhere cheap, go right ahead, it doesn't hurt to add another fembot to your collection. It's a great figure overall too, a 10 out of 10 for me.