Brown Gyro

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Brown Gyro is a Beastformer from the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Brown Gyro (ブラウンジャイロ Buraunjairo) is one of the many Beastformers who joined the insurgent army under Alligatron raised by Galvatron in order to aid his Decepticons in conquering the formerly-peaceful planet Beast. His role in the Decepticon-allied Beastformer forces is armored land soldier. Brown Gyro holds the rank of Emperor of Ellas, under King Wavemoose.

Toys

Transformers: Beastformers

• Brown Gyro (Beastformer, 1987)
  • Beast ID number: 30
  • Accessories: Double-bladed weapon

Part of the second series of Takara's Beastformers toys, Brown Gyro is an anthopomorphic armadillo in magenta robotic armor. The rubsign on his chest reveals one of three symbols; Fire, Water or Wood.

He came in a green-grid generic "Destron 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

• Brown Gyro (Beastformer, 1988)
  • Beast ID number: 30
  • Accessories: "Gyrodor" MVP Weapon

Re-released in the Transformers-less Beastformers sequel series, Brown Gyro 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 "Gyrodor" (ジャイローダー Jairōdā).

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 Brown Gyro 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.)

• Brown Gyro (Gashapon/candy-toy Beastformer, 1988)
  • Meiji ID number: 34
  • Accessories: ??? weapon

A small, super-deformed, articulation-free version of Brown Gyro 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 "Armored Armadillo" was similarly (eventually) available with both styles of rubsign.

Foreign names

• English: Armored Armadillo