Beast-Bot

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Beast-Bot is a Playskool Go-Bot in the Go-Bots continuity. When corrupted, he is known as Preditron.

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</div><small>Specifics: Toy images</small> </td></tr></table> </center> Beast-Bot is what you would call a nature-boy. He's capable of communing with any living thing, and his wisdom and patience help him guide the Go-Bots team. He's capable of changing into a gorilla, a cheetah, a raptor, and a wolf. Or maybe a Panther.

Fiction

Go-Bots

Cartoon

Voice Actor: ???

Toys

Playskool Big Adventures

• Gorillabot (Basic Go-Bot, 2002)

A blue, grey, and purple techno-organic gorilla, likely (in view of his being released alongside Cheetor) originally intended as an homage to Beast Machines Optimus Primal. Recolored as Max (in Japan), then as just plain "Beast-Bot", and finally as Gorilla-Bot (who is almost certainly a different character -- see Trivia.)

Playskool Go-Bots

• Beast-Bot II (Basic Go-Bot, 2002)

A blue, grey, and purple recolor of Big Adventures Cheetor, into what is presumably a panther of some kind. He also shares the base mold with Chuck, Tigertron, George, and the heavily-remolded Preditron.

• Beast-Bot (Mission: Earth, 2003)

A redeco of Gorillabot, presumably done because this is the form he usually used in the cartoon. The toys look almost identical at a glance, but there are numerous minor differences in the paint applications, with the obvious change being a blue (instead of red) gorilla head.

• Beast-Bot (Secret Shield, 2004)

Another blue, grey, and purple recolor, this time of "Invisibilty Force" Reptron (who was in turn slightly remolded from the original Dino-Bot/Reptron mold.) Similar toys also include Greg and all the other versions of Reptron.

• Preditron (Invisibility Force, 2004)

The first true Go-Bots villain doesn't even get to be a new character! Beast-Bot's "unruly" alter-ego is a heavy remold of Big Adventures Cheetor, as a blue, black, and orange wolf. Mold modifications include a new head and tail, and slight alterations to the pins holding his torso together.

Trivia

• It seems safe to say that the original Gorillabot is indeed the same character as Beast-Bot: given that the Beast-Bot II toy was released long before any toy named simply "Beast-Bot", one can assume that Hasbro considered Gorillabot to be the first Beast-Bot toy. Oh yeah, and there's the fact that Beast-Bot's cartoon model uses the color scheme from the Gorillabot toy. "Gorilla-Bot", on the other hand, is likely a completely different guy, given his more mischievous bio card characterization.
• It's fairly obvious that Beast-Bot's Mission: Earth bio is a reference to Optimus Primal's attitude in Beast Machines.