Beast Wars 2 and Neo were added series done by Takara and were events that happened back on Cybertron during the battle between Optimus Primal and Megatron trapped in the past on Pre-Earth. The series started during the same events of Beast Wars and ended when Megatron came back to Cybertron before the Maximals and managed to take control of the planet. Now Beast Wars 2 had some of the best remolds ever in the form of the Cyber-Beasts. The four were Hellscream, DirgeGun, MaxB and Thrustol.

This is basically Beast Wars 2 Hellscream but re-released in the Universe line with a Decepticon logo on his chest and with a slight ball added on the end of the shark razor on the front of beast mode. The two differences to the figure do make a slight difference because with the Takara version there is a sharp edge to the razor sharks point but on the Hasbro version they have added a slight bubble because of their over safety issues. The Decepticon logo just makes it seem very lazy because the whole point of Universe figures is that they are meant to be repaints of existing figures previously/already available.

Overbite is basically just Beast Wars 2 Hellscream with a Decepticon logo on the chest, now this is fantastic of Hasbro to do because it means people can get a hold of Hellscream (Overbite) but the thing that really is a kick in the bollocks is that considering their giving us Hellscream you would expect MaxB, DirgeGun and Thrustol to follow suit and for us to be given the entire Cyber-Beast foursome by Hasbro….sadly not! It seems were getting Hellscream and that’s pretty much it sadly. You may think it may not matter that much but if you’re a collector of the Universe line you kinda notice that Hellscream on his own doesn’t really match up with all the other figures in the Universe line…he just looks out of place.

The robot mode is a mix of love and hate, on the one hand you can love this figure because Overbite supports a huge arsed massive arm cannon with shark missiles and spikes pointing out of it. The part you hate about the robot mode is that the feet are seriously way to small because of the rest of the body the legs just cannot seem to support the body very well and on most times it ends up falling over. The legs just needed to be slightly bigger or have better support for the rest of the body and the robot mode would have been fantastic.

The face for Overbite looks great and real evil, originally in the Beast Wars 2 Cartoon the figure was called Starscream (A G2 repaint done in Black with BB) but was thrown into a lava pit by Gigastorm and who mutated into Hellscream. So the face looks real twisted and evil and suits the figure perfectly. There are two shark missiles hidden in the back area of the figure and also the tip of the cyber shark area can come off and be used as a type of short sword while the rest of the shark face area can be used as a type of shield while the main cannon gets a chance to reload.

The beast mode looks …well obviously like a shark but with more robotic parts added to it. I guess the best way to explain this is to think of a type of android shark and that’s the best way to really describe how Overbite looks in beast mode. The added extra robotic parts to the standard normal shark look amazing and shows why the Cyber-Beasts sold so well in Japan and China but considering these were some of the best sellers of the Beast Wars 2 line it really is unexplained by Hasbro haven’t released the rest of the Cyber-Beasts in the Universe line because fans have said that they do want them, it just seems wrong for Hasbro to release such crap as repainting Cybertron Evac TWICE (Springer AND Blades) yet they don’t release figures fans seriously want in the line.

The packaging for Overbite looks a little like Universe Nemesis Prime’s or Ruinations. The box is large but thin and the front has cartoon pictures of the figure. The downside is that you can’t get Overbite on his own as he comes with Repugnus which isn’t really a very good toy at all, if anything it just feels like he was thrown in at the last minute as a cheap extra that fans wont really want.

A fantastic edition to the Universe and a great chance for fans to get there hands on Hellscream but for a Universe figure that’s meant to be a repaint it seems very lazy, then again it was more likely this was released for fans to get there hands on Hellscream which is why he wasn’t repainted thankfully. A great figure and shows that Takara are fantastic when making there own moulds and the retooling of the design is amazing. All we can do is hope that some time in the future Hasbro pulls their fingers out of there arses and chooses to release the rest of the Cyber-beasts that everybody wants.