Beast-Bot: Difference between revisions
m →Toys |
m →Toys |
||
| Line 23: | Line 23: | ||
Unfortunately, an accident turned him into the evil wolf Preditron! Smart and operating across the galaxy, he was the Go-Bots greatest menace! [[Strong-Bot]], [[Buzzer-Bot]], and [[Speed-Bot]] took up the challenge of returning Preditron to normal, with [[Aero-Bot]] leading the mission and the team. | Unfortunately, an accident turned him into the evil wolf Preditron! Smart and operating across the galaxy, he was the Go-Bots greatest menace! [[Strong-Bot]], [[Buzzer-Bot]], and [[Speed-Bot]] took up the challenge of returning Preditron to normal, with [[Aero-Bot]] leading the mission and the team. | ||
==Games== | |||
===Glow Rock Rescue Game=== | |||
When the Earth was bombarded by [[Glow Rock]]s, Beastbot was absorbed within one of them. Thankfully, Aerobot rescued him. {{storylink|Go-Bots: Glow Rock Rescue|Glow Rock Rescue}} | |||
==Toys== | ==Toys== | ||
Revision as of 01:56, 16 October 2015
| This article is about the character sometimes referred to as "Gorillabot". For the guy with the hyphenated name, see Gorilla-Bot. |
| This article is about the Go-Bot sometimes known as Preditron. For the Generation 1 Decepticon, see Preditron. |
- Beast-Bot is a Go-Bot from the Go-Bots portion of the Go-Bots continuity family. When corrupted, he is known as Preditron.
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.
Fiction
Go-Bots
Cartoon
- Voice actor: Paul Dobson
Beast-Bot was the wildest of the Go-Bots in Botropolis, and therefore(?!) selected as one of the Go-Bot Protectors assigned to protect Earth. When Silver-Bot visited the planet, Beast-Bot and Buzzer-Bot monitored events from the Go-Pod. Typhoon Twister Beast-Bot got to go on his first mission when Mototron damaged an oil pipeline in the snowy north. He used his gorilla form to gather up the fallen pipes, and also to rescue Kid-Bot and Gas-Bot, who'd stowed away in Speed-Bot's trunk. Once Aero-Bot dragged an oil tanker up the mountain, Beast-Bot redirected the leaking oil into it. Arctic Oil Spill
Reptron's arrival in a jungle area meant that Beast-Bot and Buzzer-Bot were prime choices to deal with him. Beast-Bot prevented a rock dislodged by the renegade Go-Bot from hitting some human explorers. Reptron went on to challenge Beast-Bot to a race. Beast-Bot accepted on the condition that if he won, Reptron would agree to leave Earth. The pair dashed through an ancient temple, dodging trap after trap, but Reptron ended up falling short before they reached the other side. After rescuing Reptron from a net, Beast-Bot finished the race, and his rival agreed to return to Botropolis. Reptron's Rampage The Botropolis High Council sent Beast-Bot on a top-secret month-long mission. He was therefore absent when the rest of the Protectors were awarded Go-Shields. Racer-Bot Road Rally
Toy bios
He has the ability to take on the animal forms of his local environment, and has the power to communicate with all living things. Beast-Bot Mission: Earth
Originally called Gorillabot, he defended Earth from evil-doers with his amazing strength and intelligence, and his jet-engine backpack allowed him to travel at warp speed! Gorillabot Later changing his name to Beast-Bot, he took on a panther alt mode so he could give himself an extra burst of speed to hunt down trouble. Beast-Bot II He later took ape form again, and then later dinosaur form.
Unfortunately, an accident turned him into the evil wolf Preditron! Smart and operating across the galaxy, he was the Go-Bots greatest menace! Strong-Bot, Buzzer-Bot, and Speed-Bot took up the challenge of returning Preditron to normal, with Aero-Bot leading the mission and the team.
Games
Glow Rock Rescue Game
When the Earth was bombarded by Glow Rocks, Beastbot was absorbed within one of them. Thankfully, Aerobot rescued him. Glow Rock Rescue
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. Redecoed as Max in Japan, then as just plain "Beast-Bot", and finally as Gorilla-Bot (who is almost certainly a different character—see Notes).
Playskool Go-Bots
- Beast-Bot II (Basic Go-Bot, 2002)
- A blue, grey, and purple redeco 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-retooled 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 redeco, this time of "Invisibilty Force" Reptron (who was in turn slightly retooled 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 retool 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.
Notes
- 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.
