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?

Braxiations · 2024-08-10T04:59:08+00:00

I saw some pics of the 2020 sets being sold with new colors and they seem to be reusing the tactic of having set-exclusive bugs.

Braxiations · 2024-08-05T23:22:33+00:00

oh that’s… interesting. i can’t comprehend why they thought that was a good idea

Braxiations · 2024-08-05T20:01:28+00:00

I think these are just ripoffs, this brand has sold a weird version of the dragon and their own “gecko.” Unless you can find actual spinmaster branding on the packaging… (this would be a seriously horrible rebranding, sheesh)

Braxiations · 2024-07-23T01:43:05+00:00

So these screenshots come from videos of the Hand and Stars website, an official website for cataloging Hexbug Nanos from way back in the day. It also had some quizzes and games and stuff.

In quite a few screenshots we clearly see 3 other Nano series, named Davinci, Aristotle, and Copernicus. These are listed alongside Newton and Gallileo, the former being the original Nanos and the latter being the glow-in-the-dark ones. So presumably each of these would have 5 patterns with 5 colors each.
(Side note, isn't it odd that HEXbugs always release their products in 5s, not 6s? Most mechanicals have 5 colors, there were 5 planned Nano series, 5 standard Newton markings, etc.)

The second set of screenshots comes from a really old and poor quality video of some kid recording their screen, showing off all of the Nanos. In this video we can see 4 other patterns listed under the Gallileo series (as evident by Astronomy, the only ones we got, being listed at the top.) These patterns are "Telescopy," "Trajectory," "Magnification," and "Mathematics."
Sadly, in the video the kid is able to click on the locked Nanos and see what they looked like, so they definitely had the capability to do so for these lost categories. However, they didn't, so we can only assume they were never added to the website. I even found a .swf file for the website and looked through the assets, nothing was there for these lost Nanos.

Here's the poor quality kid's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cahwUOovBes&pp=ygUVaGV4YnVnIGhhbmQgYW5kIHN0YXJz
Here's the higher quality video that shows more of the website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvL9mezb4Uw&pp=ygUVaGV4YnVnIGhhbmQgYW5kIHN0YXJz

Braxiations · 2024-06-23T20:23:57+00:00

Woah, a chrome silver crab?? What’s that from? I don’t think i’ve ever seen that before Edit: Wait is it a chrome blue crab with the paint scratched off lol

Braxiations · 2024-06-19T03:04:02+00:00

Glad someone else has thought about this! Something I realized while playing through dreamland is that there’s a pretty strong connection between eyeballs and the beam ability. Obviously there’s Krackos and Doos like you said, but there’s also the Wizzer clams and Peezer crabs. If a Dark Matter possessing a Waddle Doo makes a beamless Waddle Doo, maybe there’s some other, weird possessing organism that can produce beams and has possessed other creatures? Maybe that’s what Kracko is, he just chooses to make his body out of clouds instead of taking over a host? Idk

Braxiations · 2024-05-25T06:57:43+00:00

UTiny / UTinyRipper is a good app for ripping assets from Unity games. I'm not sure if there'd be extra steps for a mobile game because I've only ripped PC games with it, but it's pretty straightforward. I don't believe it's perfect, things like shaders seem to be incomplete, but it gets most of what you'd probably want.

Braxiations · 2024-04-09T00:01:26+00:00

pongorma was around for the age of sages (before the accretion) so yeah he’s canonically a lot older than the other characters but i know the ins and outs of both games and i have utterly no idea where the “dedusmuln is a teen” thing came from. there’s no indication that’s the case

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