Snaptrap is the leader of the Seacons, the most expensive of the team and the one that, quite literally, holds the entire group together.

The fifth of the Seacon mini-robots (the designation “SE5″ on the package drops a huge clue) is Tentakil, an evil pink and turquoise squid-stroke-octopus.

Skalor is one ugly son of a fish! In monster mode, the combination of turquoise, light pink and dark magenta coupled with a hideous fish-head and scaled body make this one catch that should be thrown back into the sea.

Nautilator, a particularly creepy looking Seacon, is perhaps the most realistic looking of the set. Well, as realistic as a toy robotic lobster can get, to be fair.

The second member of the Seacon team, Seawing (SE2), takes flight under the waves as a turquoise, black and grey robotic manta ray. A manta ray with legs, that is. It’s a very stylised look, with the wing span forming a near perfect half-circle. Seawing is certainly the sleekest looking Seacon.

Overbite, designation SE1 on the packaging, assumes the form of what the instructions charitably refer to as a “monster”. Actually, it looks a lot like a shark with arms and legs. In fact, the Marvel UK comics do depict the character as a (limbless) mechanical shark. But they also call the character Jawbreaker. So what do they know?

There is something fishy going on here. The God Neptune giftset, part of Japan’s Beast Wars II line, is a partial re-release of 1988’s Seacon team in new colours. More on the “partial” later.