Anibot

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The Anibots are an Autobot subgroup from the Generation 1 continuity family.

The Anibots are a dangerous group of Autobots, to the point where they have to be kept in a roboto-zoo. They combine into the fearsome Dragon Beast.

The Anibots include:

  • Simba (leader)
  • Clump
  • Pardo
  • Shriek
  • Thump

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Ask Vector Prime

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Realities where Stinger, Bolts, Cubbie, and Stripes were among Blaster's cassettes often included Anibots as well. Beachcomber thought it cruel to keep them in a roboto-zoo but Vector Prime saw little alternative. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/24

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Second of (at least) three concepts.

The Anibots were an early concept for the toys that eventually became the Predacons. While the figures were still in development, writer Ron Friedman was directed to include the characters in his second draft of The Transformers: The Movie, written in April 1985. Informed only what animals the toys turned into, and that they "come together to form a huge robot," Friedman named the individual members Simba the lion, Clump the rhino, Pardo the leopard, Shriek the eagle, and Thump the buffalo, and depicted the team as combining into a huge quadrupedal lightning-breathing "mechano-beast" known as Dragon Beast.

As written by Friedman, the Anibots would have lived in the "Roboto-zoo" in the south quadrant of Autobot City. When the Constructicons attacked as part of Megatron's forces during the Battle of Autobot City, Ultra Magnus released the Anibots from their cages as a desperation move. Although the Anibots' unexpected appearance and unbridled ferocity initially gained them the upper hand, the Constructicons were able to turn the tide, forcing them into retreat with concentrated weapon fire. Later, when the Constructicons merged into Devastator to break through the city's walls as seen in the finished film, Wheeljack would have merged the Anibots into their colossal Dragon Beast form. Dragon Beast and Devastator battled, causing as much damage to the city around them as to one another, until the arrival of the Dinobots occupied Devastator's attention. Dragon Beast took advantage of the opportunity to smash Dirge and Ramjet.

Concept art was created by Floro Dery of at least their combined mode,<ref>Dery's Etsy shop</ref> referred to only with the descriptor used in the original script, the "Mechano-Beast".<ref>Script: "...they pick themselves out of rubble and from various fights in progress and INTERLOCK to create a huge, DRAGON LIKE MECHANO-BEAST which BREATHES LIGHTNING BOLTS which emerge from it's maw like the stylized ocean waves in a Japanese print"</ref> The second version is shown at the head of the article as a dragon. The notes on the right state that the first version had an exoskeleton and itself transformed to an "alien spaceship", while a third version existed as a five-headed hydra; although these and any other versions have yet to surface.

But of course, none of this happened, because it's almost certainly the case that the team being Dery-original designs who combined into a giant four-legged dragon was never Hasbro's plan for the toys; much more likely is that Friedman had simply let his imagination run wild after having not been given enough information to work off of, and that the toys, whose designs were already being worked on, had always been intended to merge into a regular humanoid robot. In the end, Hasbro decided to make the toys Decepticons instead of Autobots—switching their name first to the "Anicons"<ref>As seen on early internal model sheets that were offered on eBay in 2016</ref> then to the "Predacons"—and dropped them from the film, introducing them instead in "Five Faces of Darkness."

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