Giader

Giader is a Beastformer from the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Giader (ギアダー Giadā) 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. His role in the Autobot-allied Beastformer forces is land attack warrior. He holds the rank of King of Sunatoria, over Emperor Crabhit, and was born on the shores of Lake Snarl.

Toys

Transformers: Beastformers

• Giader (Beastformer, 1987)
  • Beast ID number: 24
  • Accessories: Axe

Part of the first series of Takara's Beastformers toys, Giader is pink-furred anthropomorphic weasel with blue robotic armor. His left arm ends in a machinegun barrel. The rubsign on his chest reveals one of three symbols; Fire, Water or Wood.

The Hasbro Battle Beasts release of the figure more commonly comes with orange fur, with pink as a much less common release; it's uncertain if the Takara release also came in orange.

He was re-released in the subsequent second and third series; while the toy proper was not changed, the packaging and packed-in bio card was. The Series 1 release comes in a generic red-grid "Cybertron Beastformer" box, with a red-grid bio card with a painted character image on the front, though there was a random chance of his card being replaced by the rare "Holography Mirror" card. Series 2 came in a green-grid generic "Cybertron Beastformer" box, with the bio card putting the painted image on a jungle backdrop. Series 3's 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 the green-box releases, 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

• Giader (Beastformer, 1988)
  • Beast ID number: 24
  • Accessories: "Lens Gear" MVP Weapon

Re-released in the Transformers-less Beastformers sequel series, Giader 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 "Lens Gear" (レンズギア Renzu Gia).

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 Giader 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.)

• Giader (Gashapon/candy-toy Beastformer, 1988)
  • Meiji ID number: 8
  • Accessories: "Killer Anchor" weapon

A small, super-deformed, articulation-free version of Giader 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, common for inexpensive toys of that nature. Giader came with Killer Fish's "Killer Anchor" weapon, while Hedgehog came with Giader's "Lens Gear".

Notes

Foreign names

• English: War Weasel