>>5284519>it still amazes me that this was the first Transformable Arcee figure.Imagine how weird it would have been to have her first toy as an ugly Chromedome repaint.
I was curious and looked up her backstory to see what the explanation was.
>During a battle against a horde of killer Nightbirds, Wheelie and Daniel (now an adult) sacrificed their lives to end the threat. The death of Daniel took a serious toll on Arcee, who became reclusive, preferring to sit alone with images of her former Headmaster partner. Over time, she slipped away from her friends entirely, disappearing within Cybertron. After an unspecified event, she took on the form of a techno-organic spider, and learned the skills of both Crystalocution and the previously lost art of Tekkaido. She strongly believed that she had premonitions of her friends' deaths before they would happen, and this knowledge had driven her insane. She hid herself away, hoping to spare herself the pain of experiencing this phenomenon.What the goddamn fuck? I just thought it was a cool toy I had no idea the writers were insane.
I hope this years Botcon repaints Animated BlackArachnia into Arcee or something equally silly and spider related. Or even Generations Arcee as BlackArachnia.
