Brown Gyro

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

Brown Gyro is a Beastformer from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Brown Gyro (ブラウンジャイロ Buraun Jairo) was considered a creep and a bully even among Alligatron's forces. A quiet loner, he had a tendency to lash out with violence at the slightest frustration, driving others away. And it's not like he could be beaten into submission; his armored hide is thousands of times tougher than steel, so physical blows bounce off with incredible force that can send even the heaviest attacker flying away. Thus, he was generally given wide berth, left to sulk alone when not in battle.

That all changed following the war, when he encountered the Autobot-allied Wavemoose, King of their home island Ellas. The easygoing, patient Wavemoose took the time to listen, slowly working with Gyro to, well, soften him up and help him come out of his shell. Though he's still a quiet sort, his anger has abated dramatically and his confidence has risen, and he now serves as Emperor of Ellas, protecting its peaceful people from harm.

In battle, Gyro is incredibly slow, but he's also very, very hard to stop. If he gets in close, he can spin his Gyrodor (ジャイローダー Jairōdā) double-blade at super-high speed, turning it into a buzzsaw to carve up anything within reach.

Toys

Transformers: Beastformers

• Brown Gyro (Beastformer, 1987)
  • Beast ID number: 30
  • Accessories: Double-bladed weapon

Part of the second series of Takara's Beastformers toys, Brown Gyro is an anthopomorphic armadillo in magenta robotic armor. The rubsign on his chest reveals one of three symbols; Fire, Water or Wood.

He came in a green-grid generic "Destron 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... though this art gives him a weird silver trident weapon that doesn't really line up with any known Beastformers weapon. 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

• Brown Gyro (Beastformer, 1988)
  • Beast ID number: 30
  • Accessories: "Gyrodor" MVP Weapon

Re-released in the Transformers-less Beastformers sequel series, Brown Gyro was given a straight re-release with new packaging and a new, more filled-out bio card, with the character art redrawn and recolored to give him his correct weapon. This new card also gave said correct weapon, now branded an "MVP Weapon", the name "Gyrodor".

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 Brown Gyro 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.)

• Brown Gyro (Gashapon/candy-toy Beastformer, 1988)
  • Meiji ID number: 34
  • Accessories: ??? weapon

A small, super-deformed, articulation-free version of Brown Gyro was seemingly intended to be sold as part of the Takara/Meiji candy toy assortment. A bio/data card matching the released candy-toy cards, with its own role-playing rules and using the Transformers-era painted character art, was released in packs of cards with candy, but the actual toy ultimately never saw release.

Your bargaining posture is highly dubious. Proceed on your way to oblivion. This item has been canceled, with no current plans for release.

Notes

• Brown Gyro's 1988 bio card gives him the nickname Gy (ジャイ Jai).

Foreign names

• English: Armored Armadillo