Flying Attacker

Flying Attacker is a Beastformer from the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Flying Attacker (フライングアタッカー Furaingu Atakkā) is the kind of Beastformer who, when he shows up on the battlefield, unfamiliar allies are likely to go "Wait, him? What's he doing here?" Emperor of Harriso and fashionista extraordinaire, it's clear he'd rather be at work keeping his hometown on the shore of Lake Midi up to date with the latest trends or starting new ones, making it a hip place that's got everything to draw in visitors from all over the planet. He takes exquisite care of his looks, his wardrobe, his décor, and is always happy to show off.

And while he gives off a flighty, playful air, his training with his King Platinum Tiger has made him a deadly-effective combatant who blends supreme style with precise strikes. His specialty is swooping in silently from the air and attacking with his MVP Weapon the Musasabeamer (ムササビーマー Musasabīmā), hitting targets with repeated supersonic vibrations in a "Shockwave Attack" that can tear things apart from the inside-out.

Toys

Transformers: Beastformers

• Flying Attacker (Beastformer, 1987)
  • Beast ID number: 49
  • Accessories: Sword

Part of the second series of Takara's Beastformers toys, Flying Attacker is a yellow anthropomorphic flying squirrel in blue robotic armor with big shoulder-wings. The rubsign on his chest reveals one of three symbols; Fire, Water or Wood.

In the Hasbro Battle Beasts line, the figure could come with red chest-detailing, or yellow chest-detailing and unpainted buck-teeth. It is uncertain if the latter version was released in Beastformers, though it did appear in at least one Beastformers checklist-poster.

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

• Flying Attacker (Beastformer, 1988)
  • Beast ID number: 49
  • Accessories: "Musasabeamer" MVP Weapon

Re-released in the Transformers-less Beastformers sequel series, Flying Attacker 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 "Musasabeamer".

He was sold in two similar-but-different styles of boxes. One wholly-generic version, sold in large display boxes like the Transformers releases, advertised the chance for the included bio card to instead be a rare holofoil card of White Leo with a "Burstsun" rubsign in a baggie taped to the back, so you could apply it to the Beastformer of your choice. The more common version has a slightly different box with a peg-hole in the top flap, and has a sticker on the bottom with his name and role on it.

Late 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.)

• Flying Attacker (Gashapon/candy-toy Beastformer, 1988)
  • Meiji ID number: 17
  • Accessories: ??? weapon

A small, super-deformed, articulation-free version of Flying Attacker 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 come with a different Beastformer's weapon attached to their shoulder by a snippable sprue. Crabhit came with Flying Attacker's "Musasabeamer", but it is currently unknown whose weapon Flying Attacker had; it's either Flykick's "Flying Typhoon" or Bowdog's "Dog Fighter".

Notes

• His 1988 bio card gives him the nickname Sasaby (ササビー Sasabī), based on "musasabi", the name for the Japanese giant flying squirrel, also the basis for his MVP Weapon name.

Foreign names

• English: Squire Squirrel