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[Bermuda Mohawk]

Surprised to see no mention of this at all. It's clearly gotten some attention on auction, peeps holding back to try and keep people from bidding?

Battle Beast Beast Eater toy package sample design mock up. I took the original image from the auction and fixed it up a bit in Photoshop. I can't say this is a toy I would have bought as a kid, and I KNOW I wouldn't have bought it as an adult. But it's still cool to see what could have been.

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Edited by Bermuda Mohawk, 24 May 2012 - 05:05 AM.

[retroactive80z]

Surprised to see no mention of this at all. It's clearly gotten some attention on auction, peeps holding back to try and keep people from bidding?

Battle Beast Beast Eater toy package sample design mock up. I took the original image from the auction and fixed it up a bit in Photoshop. I can't say this is a toy I would have bought as a kid, and I KNOW I wouldn't have bought it as an adult. But it's still cool to see what could have been.

[WarOnTheShore]

Good thought retro...

Also, what a stupid idea this was.

[retroactive80z]

Ha ha I didn't realize it didn't Post anything. I actually really like it and I would deffo buy one if hey were made.

[jkaris]

Link?

[b00sted]

Link?

I think they are talkin about this? http://www.ebay.com/...r-/130701307576

[jkaris]

Nice!

I'm on it! If I win, I will use it to make a run of those packages.

[mca19]

I don't think it is possible to hold back people from bidding with prices these days.

I don't know about everyone else, but I guess I wouldn't have a whole lot of interest in the "beast eaters", but the glow in the dark looking figures would crack me up. I think if they were going to do a "swamp smasher", shouldn't it be the guy from the comics? He is a swamp looking thing if I ever saw one.

As for the box, I find it strange it doesn't have more imaging, so I'm not enthused. But it is cool if the background is true on the box, and it is something they were going to make. The seller has other "proofs", so I'm a skeptic I guess.

[Tars Tarkas]

Ha! That monster has a handle and wheels.

[Ericnilla]

i like how Laser Beasts are depicted in the art but it would have came with a battle beast. haha

[FANtomCore]

Ok who's going to take a crack at making the Beast Eater? xD

[lhssenior]

I asked the seller for any documentation they had or anything to authenticate this as most samples obtained from employees have some paperwork showing that the employee had approval or the authority to walk out of the building with the company's intellectual property. Especially when the item they happen to have is for something that had not been released yet. I have a few friends in the toy manufacturing industry and they've told me over the years that the companies just don't let things like this walk out the door so I'm a little skeptical. No response yet but I'll let you guys know if I hear anything. I'm definitely interested if this is real. It would be quite the find!

It just seems a bit odd for there have been no mention of this part of the planned line anywhere before this listing from a third party, especially after speaking with one of the people involved with the creation of the line a few years back and specifically asking him if there were any more plans for the line when it died.
-Barry

[FANtomCore]

well the art looks like the art style of the other Battle Beast playsets. but for so many years of it not ever being mention even once it definitely appeared out of nowhere

i can see why it never got past the concept stage, just doesn't have the right vibe to it, oh well

[Bermuda Mohawk]

I asked the seller for any documentation they had or anything to authenticate this as most samples obtained from employees have some paperwork showing that the employee had approval or the authority to walk out of the building with the company's intellectual property. Especially when the item they happen to have is for something that had not been released yet. I have a few friends in the toy manufacturing industry and they've told me over the years that the companies just don't let things like this walk out the door so I'm a little skeptical. No response yet but I'll let you guys know if I hear anything. I'm definitely interested if this is real. It would be quite the find!

It just seems a bit odd for there have been no mention of this part of the planned line anywhere before this listing from a third party, especially after speaking with one of the people involved with the creation of the line a few years back and specifically asking him if there were any more plans for the line when it died.
-Barry

It's legit.

I wouldn't endorse ever buying from this seller, but he has real items, and they come straight from ex-Hasbro workers. He's been selling this stuff for some time now, mostly Transformers. Some of the people who actually run the lines, like say Vinnie D'Alleva who pretty much ran the boys toys at Hasbro really did "walk out" with a shit ton of items when he left Hasbro. Crazy amounts of protos and stuff that should never have seen the light of day, but was sold to seller who then flipped them to collectors for crazy amounts of money.

Edited by Bermuda Mohawk, 25 May 2012 - 05:15 AM.

[Bermuda Mohawk]

A few more notes/opinions....

This must have been created very early in designing the Laser Beasts/Shadow Beasts series of toys.

The name Shadow Beasts hadn't even been created cause if you read the box, they are being called "Crystal Creatures" instead.

No actual Lasers had been designed yet it seems, and the ones you see on the box are just modified regular Beasts with added chest orbs and altered colors.

Chances are this was a Hasbro in-house item, and not one Takara has engineered.

[FANtomCore]

A few more notes/opinions....

This must have been created very early in designing the Laser Beasts/Shadow Beasts series of toys.

The name Shadow Beasts hadn't even been created cause if you read the box, they are being called "Crystal Creatures" instead.

No actual Lasers had been designed yet it seems, and the ones you see on the box are just modified regular Beasts with added chest orbs and altered colors.

Chances are this was a Hasbro in-house item, and not one Takara has engineered.

That was what I was thinking, like the other Battle Beasts products (Lunch Box, Belt, etc.) which had nothing to do with Takara.

[jkaris]

No actual Lasers had been designed yet it seems, and the ones you see on the box are just modified regular Beasts with added chest orbs and altered colors.

I don't know. That Rhino looks a lot more like Sailon to me than Rocky Rhino.

[steelfrogSteve]

If anyone is looking to buy an authentic Beast Eater I can sell you my dog. RIP Horny Toad.

[cassel87]

If anyone is looking to buy an authentic Beast Eater I can sell you my dog. RIP Horny Toad.

ill sell u my filipino girlfriend. she will eat ur beast eater.

[Bermuda Mohawk]

I don't know. That Rhino looks a lot more like Sailon to me than Rocky Rhino.

It's possible.

Edited by Bermuda Mohawk, 25 May 2012 - 05:14 AM.

[lord]

Are you in contact with this seller ? I send him message but never got any answer.

[JonnyPac]

That's pretty cool. And funny.

[Chicken Holiday]

With those conical teeth there will be no chewing. That means a slow suffocating death in a stomach full of acid and proteases. The psychological trauma could scar a boy for years with the anguished souls of Battle Beasts haunting guilty dreams well into adulthood.

Hardly a toy for children!

[lord]

Final price: $583.49

And I'm not the winner

[lhssenior]

Two of the letter 'u' in the winner's name, Dabbuu perhaps? I threw in a lowball bid but wasn't going to go all in without any sort of authentication other than this seller has had other items his employee friends stole. It still seems strange to me that no one has heard mention of this product before including other folks on Hasbro's BB production team. Anyways, congrats to the winner and hopefully we will see more remnants of Beast Eaters pop up down the road!
-Barry