Ironhide (BW)

The name or term "Ironhide" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Ironhide (disambiguation).

Ironhide is a Maximal from the Beast Era portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Ironhide contributes his strength to the new Maximal gestalt warrior Magnaboss.

Toys

Beast Wars

• Magnaboss (Ultra Class, 1997)
  • Accessories: 2 guns

Beast Wars Ironhide transforms from an elephant via a rather complex process involving numerous hinges and unfolding panels into a rather stumpy robot. Although dumpy, he is nothing if not well-armed: he has a flip-out spike at the end of each arm, and comes with two removable guns that flip out from behind his elephant mode ears, and which can be plugged into the holes at the ends of his arms. Ironhide is packaged with Prowl and Silverbolt, and combines with them to form his Magnaboss. Ironhide forms the bulk of the combiner's mass, including all four limbs.

Ironhide was slightly redecoed to create Santon.

• More information on Beast Wars Ironhide at TFU.info

Notes

The 1997 Magnaboss toy included no information about its three components beyond their names. In 2007, IDW Publishing's Beast Wars Sourcebook, written by Ben Yee and Simon Furman, would characterize the toy trio as the G1 characters of the same name in their spinoff of the Beast Wars cartoon. By contrast, the [[Transformers: Earth Wars|Earth Wars] mobile game in 2021 would depict lion Prowl and eagle Silverbolt as latter-day individuals separate from the same-named Autobots. So look for this Ironhide page to receive a probable update in the near-future!