Aranea (Perfect Effect)
- For other uses, see Aranea.
Aranea is fictional character created by Perfect Effect in 2013 as a third-party Transformer.
Perfect Effect
Aranea is a fictional character created by Perfect Effect. She turns into a motorcycle. Her colors and spider design are similar to Beast Wars and Animated Blackarachnia.
Development
The character of Aranea first appeared in the pack-in comic included with RC.
In September 2012 Perfect posted grey prototype image of Aranea on their Yahoo blog.[1]
In January 2013 Perfect Effect released color prototype images of Aranea on their web site.[2]
Images of Aranea were previewed at TFcon 2013's Third Party Panel.[3]
Aranea was released in August 2013.
Reception
The WTF@TFW podcast for January 24th, 2013 selected pictures of Aranea as one of the New Picture Picks.[4]
The moonbase2 podcast for February 25th, 2013 covered images of Aranea in the news.[5]
In the Fwooshcast podcast for March 4th, 2013 the hosts talked Perfect Effect teaser images.[6]
The WTF@TFW podcast for June 21st, 2013 selected pictures of Aranea as one of the New Picture Picks.[7]
The Good Morning, Cybertron! podcast for June 24th, 2013 discussed Aranea in the news.[8]
Aranea was among the third-party Transformers who appeared in an advertisement by Robot Kingdom on the back cover of Transformers: Timelines issue for Summer 2013.[9]
In the Cybercast podcast for September 1st, 2013 the hosts talked about final images of Perfect Effect Aranea in the news.[10]
The Retro Robot Radio podcast for August 31st, 2013 covered Perfect Effect Aranea and PE-DX03 in the news.[11]
Comics
Aranea appeared in the pack-in comic that came with RC and RC Battle.
Toys
- Perfect Effect Motobot PE-DX02 Aranea (2013)
- A remold of RC by Perfect Effect. Turns from robot to mototcycle. Her weapons come off to become a spider-drone.
Gallery
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RC and Aranea in the pack-in comic
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Aranea art
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Perfect Effect Aranea prototype in robot mode
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Perfect Effect Aranea prototype in motorcycle mode
References
- ↑ http://www.fullmetalhero.com/t9773/
- ↑ http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/3rd-party-unlicensed-41/perfect-effect-pe-dx02-176738/
- ↑ http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/tfcon-2013-3rd-party-panel-slides-178113/
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External links
- Pages with broken file links
- 2013 toys
- Female third-party Transformers
- Fictional characters introduced in 2013
- Fictional characters with superhuman durability
- Fictional characters with superhuman longevity
- Fictional characters with superhuman strength
- Fictional motorcycles
- Fictional robots
- Fictional shapeshifters
- Motobots
- Original third-party Transformer characters
- Perfect Effect toys