Zoids
Zoids (ゾイド Zoido) is a Tomy toyline featuring giant bestial robots.
Fiction
[edit]2005 IDW continuity
[edit]In 2016 when Grimlock rampaged through Amarillo, local human Brandon was quick enough to film it on his smartphone and upload it to the Internet under the title "OMG> ZOIDS R BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again!
Ask Vector Prime
[edit]Multiversal observer Vector Prime was puzzled by an observed overlap between the beasts of Cymond 999.04 Alpha and the Malgus Cluster. Ask Vector Prime, 15 June 2015
Toys
[edit]Synergenex
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- Shield-D-Prime (シールドディープライム)
- Release date: February 2026
- Accessories: "FZ ion cannon," "CRP type" bullet core cockpit, "triple shock cannon," "twin FZ blaster," backpack, tail, "Road Viper" motorcycle
- Known designers: Yūya Ōnishi, Amane Katayama and Tomoyuki Tanaka (TakaraTomy){{#if: |, {{{2}}}}}<ref>Patent for Shield-D Prime at the online directory of the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Japan Patent Office|{{#if:||Japan Patent Office}}]]</ref>
- Announced as the flagship release in TakaraTomy's Collaborative-adjacent licensed crossover line Synergenex, "Shield-D-Prime" combines T-SPARK's three pillar brands of Transformers, Zoids, and Diaclone. This exotic variant of Optimus Prime turns into a 1/60 scale iteration of Zoids mascot Shield Liger, and includes a working cockpit for the included duo of dianaut pilots with light-up features and a motorized jaw gimmick in classic Zoids style powered by a pair of AA batteries. Accessories include a Freezon-infused variant of Optimus's signature ion blaster, a secondary "bullet core" modular cockpit cross-compatible with swathes of the Diaclone toyline, a "triple shock cannon" intended for the liger's chest and a "twin FZ blaster" that lives on the tip of the tail. All of which can be cobbled together with the figure's removable back armor and tail to create a "Beam Cannon Jet" or really any lump of guns that your heart desires via the figure's liberal use of a Transformers-style peg-and-port system. It bears remarking that the modern Diaclone toyline favors 3 and 4 mm connections so do not necessarily set your heart on compatibility with the 5 mm standard of your Generations collection. Last but not least the set includes an adorable teeny tiny "Road Viper" motorcycle for the dianauts that can store in the chest cavity of beast mode via an opening ramp.
Notes
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- Zoids began in 1982 and has continued after Tomy's 2006 merger with Takara. At the time of the above IDW comic story, Zoids was indeed in a dormant period, with [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Zoids: Wild|{{#if:||Zoids: Wild}}]] not premiering until 2018.
- The Animated Decepticon Megadeath is described as transforming into a "Guylos EX-038 Assault Craft" from the first Zoids anime.
- Legacy toyline personnel Ben MacCrae and Mark Maher lampshaded the heavy Zoids influence that went into the beast mode of Legacy: United Thundertron by offering that the pirate had crash landed on the Zoid homeworld of Planet Zi and scanned one of the franchise's trademark ligers.<ref>Transformers panel with Ben MacCrae, Mark Maher, Evan Brooks, Takio Ejima, and Thew Adams at Hasbro Pulse Con 2023.</ref>
See also
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External links
[edit]- [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Zoids|{{#if:||Zoids}}]] at Wikipedia