Halfshell is a fictional character

Fictional character

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 from the Transformers

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 series.

Beast Wars Second

Halfshell is the captain of the Seacon Space Pirates. He is a merciless foe in combat and is very protective of his crew. He combines with his fellow Seacons

Seacons

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 to form God Neptune.

Animated series

The Seacons appeared in episode #21 of Beast Wars Second.

The Seacons were featured in episode #22, "Megastorm's Reconing" where Halfshell had a talk with Megastorm. He later fought Scuba. This is one of the few episodes where he was depicted in robot mode outside the combining stock sequences.

The Seacon Space Pirates appeared in Beast Wars Second movie "Lio Convoy Crisis". In this episode the Seacons fought the Jointron Brothers.

IDW Publishing

The opening sequence of Beast Wars: The Ascending features Magmatron

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, trapped in a temporal limbo, watching a fight between Dirgegun, Saberback

Saberback

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, Killerpunch

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, Guiledart

Guiledart

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 and Halfshell just before the planet Cybertron

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 is destroyed by Shokaract and Unicron

Unicron

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.

Halfshell had a biography printed in the Beast Wars Sourcebook by IDW Publishing

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Toys

• Beast Wars Second Halfshell (1998)

Halfshell is a redeco of the Generation 1 Deception Snaptrap. He was packaged together with his 4 fellow Seacon Space Pirates.

The Halfshell toy stands 17 centimeters tall in robot mode and the character is supposed to stand 4 meters tall. This makes the toy about 1/24 scale.

This toy was later redecoed into Universe Snaptrap.