Crabhit

Crabhit is a Beastformer from the Generation 1 continuity family.

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There's no other way to put it... Crabhit (クラブヒット Kurabuhitto) is, well... crabby. A quick-tempered and very picky perfectionist, he gets very testy very quickly, especially when it comes to simple personal opinions. It's no wonder this grump joined up with Alligatron and the other Decepticon-backed insurgents. He's skilled in underwater operations but a total load on the land, which doesn't help his attitude. He uses his MVP Weapon, the Crat Scissors (クラットシザース Kuratto Shizāsu), to cut clean through just about anything that gets between its pincer blades.

Following the war, he (somehow) became Emperor of Sunatoria, serving under King Giader. It really hasn't improved his temperament at all. It has improved his combat abilities though, as he now works with Giader to compensate for his incredibly slow land speed. Crabhit lies in wait, as Giader uses his scent-manipulation ability to direct their foe into Crabhit's clutches.

Toys

Beastformers

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Watch out, I know Crab-Maga

• Crabhit (Beastformer, 1987)
  • Beast ID number: 28
  • Accessories: Claw-axe

Part of the first series of Takara's Beastformers toys, Crabhit is a pink anthropomorphic crab in brown robotic armor. His left arm ends in a crab-claw. The rubsign on his chest reveals one of three symbols; Fire, Water or Wood.

The Hasbro Battle Beasts release of the figure more commonly came in orange, but pink samples have been found as well. It is uncertain if Crabhit was released in the Takara line in orange.

He was re-released in the subsequent second and third series; while the toy proper was not changed, the packaging and packed-in bio card was. The Series 1 release comes in a generic purple-grid "Destron Beastformer" box, with a purple-grid bio card with a painted character image on the front, though there was a random chance of his card being replaced by the rare "Holography Mirror" card. Series 2 came in a green-grid generic "DestronBeastformer" box, with the bio card putting the painted image on a jungle backdrop. Series 3's 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 the green-box releases, 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

• Crabhit (Beastformer, 1988)
  • Beast ID number: 28
  • Accessories: "Crat Scissors" MVP Weapon

Re-released in the Transformers-less Beastformers sequel series, Crabhit 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 "Crat Scissors".

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 Crabhit 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.)

• Crabhit (Gashapon/candy-toy Beastformer, 1988)
  • Meiji ID number: 12
  • Accessories: "Musasabeamer" weapon

A small, super-deformed, articulation-free version of Crabhit 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. Crabhit came with Flying Attacker's "Musasabeamer" weapon, while Bluehorse came with Crabhit's "Crat Scissors".

Notes

• His 1988 bio card give him the nickname "Crat" (クラット Kuratto), and notes he was born in Crab City. Where that is exactly is not established, but presumably it's on a shoreline.

Foreign names

• English: Crusty Crab