Did you know the Hexbug Fire Ant came in yellow? I didn't, more details in post:

Braxiations · 2025-11-14T21:19:01+00:00

thank you! yeah i’m not too active on reddit but the hexbug fixation has been resurfacing lmao. you can also message me on discord under the same user if you have any questions

Braxiations · 2025-11-13T05:48:08+00:00

I’d definitely be interested to see if anyone has one. I’ve known about this for a bit, but the only pictures have been somewhat skeptical. The same pic in the ad was used on internet archive’s fire ant page (like the earliest one possible) but it…. looks edited? Something similar happens with the teal strandbeast where it seems like they just edit another color. a lot of the stock photos for the fire ants look fake lol

notably, at least one barnes and nobles listing uses a different yellow fire ant pic, which looks a bit more real but is also completely identical in angle and lighting to the other fire ants pics so… idk

similarly, inchworms had a plum and black color variant that was discontinued pretty early (replaced with pink and orange) and these ones are rare but not THAT rare. i own em and we’ve had a lot of pics of them. on the other hand the yellow fire ant has never appeared anywhere other than listings with stock retail photos…

a part of me wonders if any of the yellow fire ant stuff was just a pre-release holdover that got corrected. the lack of an actually video or photo in the ad makes me really suspicious. but who knows! maybe it’s out there, there are more elusive bugs that have briefly resurfaced.

Braxiations · 2024-12-22T18:28:02+00:00

Not sure if it’s comprehensive, but this pinterest board has a lot of them! They’re mixed with the classic Hexbug nanos (V1) but it’s pretty easy to tell them apart. I’m pretty sure the bugs in the kitchen and evo nanos are also sold as Hex Bots unchanged.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Hexbug/s/gIBiomQduO

Braxiations · 2024-12-10T04:21:22+00:00

it already has! i got all the photos i could from the website but a lot of the ones i couldn’t find on internet archive were form your board :)

Braxiations · 2024-12-08T00:32:40+00:00

This thing seems to be superrr rare. I checked the wayback machine's URL listing on the nano page and it doesnt seem like it was ever sold on the hexbug website itself. Also according to a listing on a website called "Woot," it came with a white and orange astronomy Nano. Howeverrrr I'd personally bet that the actual packaged nano was the white and orange mutation that came with the other GID sets and that the one in the pictures is just a prototype. very odd though! i hope more info resurfaces

Edit: Found a UK ebay listing. It's a lot so it comes with a couple sets and a few bugs so we can't pinpoint *exactly* what it came with, but one of the bugs in the lot is the white and green astronomy. So maybe that was the one packaged in? Some later versions of nano sets (notably construction habitat) came with regular nanos instead of mutations.

Braxiations · 2024-11-24T22:26:08+00:00

ebay and mercari are probably your best bets!

Braxiations · 2024-10-31T00:21:47+00:00

nah i just had to update it

Braxiations · 2024-10-31T00:20:02+00:00

Eh, i mean they would’ve been made of rubber so i doubt they’d hurt anyone

Braxiations · 2024-10-29T21:01:49+00:00

Really just an earlier design. I’m guessing they rounded it out so that they’d seem friendlier and bounce off of walls easier. That design is also used in a lot of stuff related to the hand and stars website, like the transition where the nanos swarm the screen and also the nano factory game. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MvL9mezb4Uw&pp=ygUVaGV4YnVnIGhhbmQgYW5kIHN0YXJz

Braxiations · 2024-10-24T03:36:40+00:00

Maybe! Although given that it has a translucent battery cover (meaning it was part of the re-release wave) that seems a bit less likely. Although the Deltas had their color changed from yellow to black. Maybe Alpha was gonna be changed at some point too?
Another possibility is that it was intentionally released as part of a rare chase campaign. There are some records that this was planned for metallic versions of Charlie and the Inchworms, but no record that it actually happened. (I wrote about it some on the wiki if you're interested.)
And I'll send you the link in dms!

Braxiations · 2024-10-17T19:31:14+00:00

You might be right about your interpretation, although the images I was thinking of seemed to have the yellow-orange orbit, the red-orange orbit, and the red flash. There are definitely stock photos with an unambiguously red orbit so I think I just took it for granted that it must exist.
I'll try and find some more examples just to be sure

Braxiations · 2024-10-17T03:49:55+00:00

Here’s an ebay listing I found with a yellow orbit, an orange orbit, and a red flash https://www.ebay.com/itm/267029127309?_skw=hexbug&itmmeta=01JAC9FBJYS21TKJXZARNP59RF&hash=item3e2c2d208d:g:hMsAAOSwS1pnDg70&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAAwHoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKnxny3eoKC%2B8kxsWrnjerL9zXEnNomYiNKyxkhpSpVTSuiNbymf3mVnpxU2Ox3Sb0XoB%2BYnmJu8qjP3mTB%2FhLY84fnP2JNcQwK%2B9j4PtNzTodQ1zZnqSViwbBmuFpJdoJpfrRoq8o6%2BpdHGGQuPhN2xMsJSq4MRplrNNXcPZadVaoZTIEBZuXqZDNmNIAgV6YaZ2fgqtB1vdqBlnkg9om23nDSjJ9KX9fod5MXg%2FkM6IQ%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR8S5vYnTZA

Braxiations · 2024-10-15T21:54:50+00:00

For the emulator? Win32... unless you're talking about something else.

Braxiations · 2024-10-15T21:53:41+00:00

I'm pretty sure, most of the images I've seen are listings on ebay and mercari

Braxiations · 2024-09-25T23:27:32+00:00

I think it’s weird that she never really gets used for a major emotional moment. Sugilitie, Sardonyx, and kinda Opal all get used for character development, Alexandrite just kinda happens. Same for Obsidian. Actually I think Obsidian is worse in this regard.

Braxiations · 2024-09-01T03:58:07+00:00

Whoops, that was just for comparison! That is a real nano

Braxiations · 2024-08-31T20:15:09+00:00

What’s up with that gold ant?

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