Undergroun

Undergroun is a Beastformer from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Undergroun (アンダーグラン Andāguran) 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 underground attack warrior. He holds the rank of King of Rhodes, over Emperor Ultragas.

Toys

Transformers: Beastformers

• Undergroun (Beastformer, 1987)
  • Beast ID number: 42
  • Accessories: Axe

Part of the second series of Takara's Beastformers toys, Undergroun is a lavender anthropomorphic mole in purple robotic armor. His left arm ends in a robotic clamp. The rubsign on his chest reveals one of three symbols; Fire, Water or Wood.

In the Hasbro Battle Beasts line, this toy could come in either purple or black armor, black being significantly rarer. While black-armor Undergroun toys appear in various Beastformer checklists and posters, it is uncertain if it was ever actually released.

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

• Undergroun (Beastformer, 1988)
  • Beast ID number: 42
  • Accessories: "Ungrinder" MVP Weapon

Re-released in the Transformers-less Beastformers sequel series, Undergroun 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 "Ungrinder" (アングラインダー Anguraindā).

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 Undergroun 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

• Black-armor Undergroun appears in various Takara Beastformers catalogs

Foreign names

• English: Miner Mole