Sea Iron

Sea Iron is a Beastformer from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Sea Iron (シーアイアン Shī Aian) 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 underwater mobility. He holds the rank of Emperor of Chibara, under King Jungaroo, and was born in the Name River.

Toys

Transformers: Beastformers

• Sea Iron (Beastformer, 1987)
  • Beast ID number: 37
  • Accessories: Harpoon

Part of the second series of Takara's Beastformers toys, Sea Iron is an anthopomorphic walrus in yellow robotic armor. His left arm ends in a flipper. The rubsign on his chest reveals one of three symbols; Fire, Water or Wood.

In the Hasbro Battle Beast line, this toy could also come with unpainted tusks, with the formerly-white eyes and armor details now in seafoam green. It is uncertain if this variation also exists in Beastformers.

He came in a green-grid generic "Cybertron 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

• Sea Iron (Beastformer, 1988)
  • Beast ID number: 37
  • Accessories: "Sea Sabel" MVP Weapon

Re-released in the Transformers-less Beastformers sequel series, Sea Iron 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 "Sea Sabel" (シーサーベル Shī Sāberu).

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 Sea Iron 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.)

Notes

• There are two paint variations of Hasbro version of this toy. One version has white eyes and white "lights" on his waist. The second version changes the white paint to a seafoam green, and full-on eliminates the white paint on his tusks, leaving them skin-tone tan. Currently, it appears that only the white-tusks version was released in Japan.

Foreign names

• English: Wolfgang Walrus