Snarl (AOE)

The name or term "Snarl" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Snarl (disambiguation).

Snarl is an Autobot Dinobot from the Age of Extinction portion of the movie continuity family.

Me Snarl am Stegosaurus!

Snarl hates everybody. He hates the Dinobots, he hates the Autobots, and he hates the Decepticons. He even hates you. The only time he smiles is when he stares at you... when you are dead or when he's about to murder you. He transforms into a robotic Stegosaurus.

Fiction

Kre-O cartoon

Snarl participated in a battle against the Decepticons until Optimus paused the confrontation to talk about the live-action film series. The Autobot leader introduced Snarl and the rest of the Dinobots to the audience to wrap-up his recap. Then, a pizza was delivered to the battlefield, and the fighting started up once again. Take Us to the Movies Take Us Through the Movies

Toys

Age of Extinction

Robots in Disguise

• Snarl (Power Battlers, 2014)

• Japanese release date: 2014-10-18
• Japanese ID number: LA17

Power Battlers Snarl is a simplified figure that transforms from robot into a Huayangosaurus and back. Like all Power Battlers, he also comes with with a 'Hammer Strike' gimmick, triggered by pulling down the switch on his back.

The Japanese release of the toy features no changes from the American release, other than the packaging.

Generations

"How come me, Snarl, never in the movies?! It not fair!" (Hasbro Version Pictured)

(TakaraTomy Version Pictured)

• Snarl (Deluxe Class, 2014)

• Japanese ID number: AD28
• Accessories: Axe-head, thagomizer
• Known designers: Hironori Kobayashi (deco, TakaraTomy)

Part of the third wave of Age of Extinction-branded Generations toys, Snarl transforms into a robotic Stegosaurus, with a robot-mode layout inspired by his Generation 1 counterpart.

Snarl's largest pair of plates and thagomizer become a blade and a spiked mace for him to wield in robot mode, and can combine to form a large axe; this combination is not mentioned in his instructions, but he is shown wielding it in his stock photography (seen at right), albeit upside down and misassembled.

Interestingly, one of his legs has a false head tucked into the side, while his real head folds in symmetrically on his other leg. This gives the impression that he has two dinosaur heads in robot mode, which is humorous in hindsight, given that it was once theorized that stegosaurs had two brains to control motor functions.

The Japanese release of Snarl, as part of the Movie Advanced Series toyline, features metallic light green paint on his opaque green parts, his shoulder and pelvis parts were replaced into grey plastic, and his transparent yellow plastic is colored a bit lighter than the Hasbro edition.

The elbow joints of Hasbro Snarl's front Stegosaurus legs were subject to a running-change. Early shipments of the figure had legs which popped off very easily at the elbow joint. This issue was addressed by adding metal pins running through the elbow joints. The Takara-Tomy release of this figure does not feature these pins, and thus still suffers from the pop-off problem.

Age of Extinction Snarl was redecoed into Generation 1 Snarl for the San Diego Comic-Con 2014 exclusive Dinobot 4-pack, and later retooled, again as G1 Snarl, under the Platinum Edition line.

• More information on Deluxe Snarl at TFU.info

Kre-O

• Optimus Prime Dino Hauler (2014)

• Set number: A7796
• Pieces: 203
• Kreons: Ratchet, Vehicon x2, and human Autobot Driver.

Included in the Optimus Prime Dino Hauler kit, "Snarl" (he goes unnamed in the packaging) is a buildable Dinobot beast. The club at the end of his tail contains a magnet that attracts the metal parts on the Vehicon helmets and backpacks. The tail is flexible soft-plastic, but springs back into a straight position so he can swat away badguys.

Universal Studios

• Snarl (Deluxe Class, 2017)

• Accessories: Axe-head, thagomizer

Univeral Studios Snarl is a redeco of the figure above, featuring a deco based on the Dinobot figures from the Platinum Edition "Dinobots Unleashed" set. Snarl was released as a Universal Studios exclusive. The stock photos on his packaging is a "digibashed" version of the original stock photos. This figure was later released on the BigBadToyStore website, and later stocked by Ross department stores.

Merchandise

Cheetos stickers

• Snarl (2014)

Notes

• While his Deluxe Age of Extinction Generations toy is very much a Stegosaurus like his Generation 1 counterpart, his character artwork and Power Attackers figure more closely resemble a Huayangosaurus.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Snarl (スナール Sunāru)
• Mandarin: Háojiào (China, 嚎叫, "Howl")