Dream Eater

Dream Eater is a Beastformer from the Beastformers portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Dream Eater (ドリームイーター Dorīmu Ītā) is one of the Autobot-allied Beastformers fighting a war on the planet Beast. His role in the Autobot Beastformer forces is "Special Combat Unit". He also holds the rank of Emperor of Uruk, the country on whose plains he was born, under King White Cow.

Fiction

Laser Beasts comic

During the Laser Beasts' invasion of the surface world, Dream Eater and White Leo waved a white flag at the Laser Beast position, requesting negotiations. The Laser Beasts responded by opening fire on the pair. Beastformers VS Laser Beasts

Toys

Transformers: Beastformers

• Dream Eater (Beastformer, 1987)
  • Beast ID number: 58
  • Accessories: Sword

Part of the third series of Takara's Beastformers toys, Dream Eater is a white anthopomorphic tapir in green robotic armor. His left arm ends in a two-fingered thumbless robotic claw. The rubsign on his chest reveals one of three symbols; Fire, Water or Wood.

He came in a green-grid generic "Cybertron Beastformer" box, with a bio card with a line-art character image first used in Hasbro's Battle Beasts cast poster (rather than the painted images of the prior two 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.

• Burst Sun Special Set (Multi-pack, 1987)
  • Accessories: Sword

The first Beastformers multipack (still using the Transformers logo and factions) contained nine normal figures, then one of two special editions of the faction leaders, either a clear-plastic version of Alligatron, or White Leo with the "Burstsun" rubsign. The box contained no windows, so you didn't know which of the leaders you got until you opened it up.

The other nine standard Beastformers in the set were Black Jaguar, Būpink, Crowmax, Dog Hunter, Dream Eater, Earthhog, Mingo Kid, Muskhorn, and Slo.

Beastformers

• Dream Eater (Beastformer, 1988)
  • Beast ID number: 58
  • Accessories: "Quick Dreamer" MVP Weapon

Re-released in the Transformers-less Beastformers sequel series, Dream Eater 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 "Quick Dreamer" (クイックドリーマー Kuikku Dorīmā).

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 Shield Dragon 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

• Dream Eater's name is a reference to the baku, a dream-eating spirit similar to the tapir. Yes, this is also the origin of the Pokémon Drowzee and Musharna, users of the move "Dream Eater".
• The original art for Dream Eater/Torrential Tapir miscolors him with black fur and a gold weapon. The Transformers-less Beastformers release corrected this on the bio card, giving him the proper white fur and gray weapon.

Foreign names

• English: Torrential Tapir