Jungaroo

Jungaroo is a Beastformer from the Generation 1 continuity family.

You don't just eat—you Jungaroo!

Jungaroo (ジャンガルー Jangarū), also known as Jun (ジャン Jan), is one of the many Beastformers who joined White Leo's resistance forces as Galvatron's Decepticons began to conquer the formerly-peaceful planet Beast with their army of cold-blooded insurgents. A cheerful and sociable fellow who almost never feels down, he loves sports and is a champion at track-and-field events. He can perform jumps of over 50 meters thanks to his powerful leg muscles, which has led to his role of leaping warrior in the Autobot-allied Beastformer forces, and wields the Garoomerang MVP Weapon that can be thrown at high speeds and avoids obstacles automatically. He holds the rank of King of Chibara, where he was born, over his long time friend Emperor Sea Iron.

Fiction

Laser Beasts manga

Jungaroo was among the allied Beastformers who stood in defense of Bistoram during the Laser Beast invasion. Beastformers VS Laser Beasts

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Jungaroo was among the many Beastformers squabbling on their home planet when Megatron arrived to fetch the Predacons. Welcome to the Jungle

Toys

Transformers: Beastformers

PROTEIN.

• Jungaroo (Beastformer, 1987)
  • Beast ID number: 35
  • Accessories: Boomerang-sword

Part of the second series of Takara's Beastformers toys, Igunamonss is an anthopomorphic kangaroo in aqua robotic armor. His left hand is a large boxing-glove-like fist. The rubsign on his chest reveals one of three symbols; Fire, Water or Wood.

He came in a green-grid generic "Cybertron Beastformer" box, with a bio card with a painted character image on a jungle backdrop. Re-released in Series 3, the box was unchanged, but the bio card replaced the painted image with a simpler line-art image, first used in Hasbro's Battle Beasts cast poster. In both Series, depending on the "Pack" he came in, there was a chance of his bio card being replaced with a rare "Secret Photo", "Bewitching Serpent Seal", or "VS Holography Mirror" card.

Beastformers

• Jungaroo (Beastformer, 1988)
  • Beast ID number: 35
  • Accessories: "Garoomerang" MVP Weapon

Re-released in the Transformers-less Beastformers sequel series, Jungaroo was given a straight re-release with new packaging and a new, more filled-out bio card with corrected coloring. This new card also gave his weapon, now branded an "MVP Weapon", the name "Garoomerang" (ガルメラン Garumeran).

The initial early releases of this series had the chance for any Beastformer to have the rare Burstsun symbol; we'll probably never know if Jungaroo was ever actually one of them. Later in the run, the "mood ring" styled rubsigns were replaced with new rubsigns that revealed full-color Fire/Wood/Water images on black backdrops. (These rubsign variants also happened at the same time in the Hasbro Battle Beast version of the line.)

• Jungaroo (Gashapon/candy-toy Beastformer, 1988)
  • Meiji ID number: 37
  • Accessories: ??? weapon

A small, super-deformed, articulation-free version of Jungaroo was sold both as a gashapon capsule prize by Takara, and as a candy toy with "chocoballs" through the candy/ snack company Meiji. The candy toy version came with a bio/data card with its own role-playing rules, using the old Transformers-era painted character art.

This stumpy lil fellow could be found in red, blue or green plastic, representing the Fire, Water and Wood elements (even though he still had a rubsign). All of the Meji Beastformers comes with a different Beastformer's weapon attached to their shoulder by a snippable sprue. Unfortunately, it is currently unknown what weapon he came with, and who came with his.

Notes

• The Hasbro release of "Kickback Kangaroo" was similarly (eventually) available with both styles of rubsign.

Foreign names

• English: Kickback Kangaroo