Longrack (BW)

This article is about the Beast Wars Neo Maximal. For the Cybertron Autobot, see Longrack (Cybertron).

Longrack is a Maximal in the Beast Wars Neo portion of the Generation 1 continuity family's Beast Era.

"The pole up that man's ass must have a pole up it's ass!"

The best way to describe Longrack (ロングラック Rongurakku) is that he's the kind of cadet who runs for Student Council President because he believes that the job really matters and should be taken seriously, darn it all. Longrack believes rules exist to be followed. He's talky, annoying, over-serious, and has a stick up his tailpipe as long as his beast mode's neck. The "Brainy Smurf" of Big Convoy's crew, Longrack means well, but that doesn't stop him from being a major tool, or getting into spats with the less-serious-minded among the crew, particularly the wild-at-heart Mach Kick. In his spare time, he likes to tinker with machines.

Fiction

Beast Wars Neo cartoon

Voice actor: Jun Uemoto (Japanese)

Beast Wars Neo comic

A pipe and a smoking jacket, and this picture would be complete.

IDW Beast Wars comics

Oh good, a hall monitor with a big fist.

Longrack was part of Lio Convoy's elite special operations unit, the Pack. He traveled with them to prehistoric Earth to rescue Razorbeast and company. On the way there, Stampy's "bounding" exuberance, quite predictably, got on Longrack's nerves. Once their team landed in the middle of a battle with the Predacons, he used his long giraffe neck to take a bite out of Buzz Saw. The Ascending #2

Toys

Beast Wars Neo

One of the few toys caught in a permanent raspberry.

• Longrack (Mega, 1999)
  • Japanese ID number: C-29
  • Accessories: Knife, 2 missiles

Longrack transforms into a giraffe. His beast-mode head has its tongue stuck out, and pushing it in makes the white pupils of his eyes disappear. Uh... yeah.

Anyway, his robot mode is laden with gimmicks. His beast-mode forelegs each hide a spring-loaded missile launcher, through getting them into a useful firing position is tricky. His giraffe neck becomes his right arm, which has a spring-loaded extending claw. This claw also features a 5mm-wide "clip", allowing him to hold other accessories (or his comrades Stampy and Break in their gun modes) with that arm. His left arm's gauntlet has a flip-out knife, which is removable, but due to the plastic tolerances is tricky to remove and replace. He also has a third "Arm Vehicle" mode that is best not talked about at all, though it does have the sole redeeming feature of putting his missile launchers into an actually useful firing position.

• More information on Longrack at TFU.info

• Showdown in the Savannah: Longrack VS Guiledart (Vs pack, 1999)
  • Japanese ID number: VS-29
  • Accessories: Knife, 2 missiles

Longrack was available both separately and in a vs-pack with the PredaconGuiledart. Both toys were identical to their individual releases.

Notes

• A very unexpected homage to Longrack was retooled from Armada Hoist in the Cybertron series.

• This same homage was very clearly used as the basis for Longrack's Cybertronian form in IDW's Beast Wars comics. The Ascending issue 1