Anibot
- The Anibots are an Autobot subgroup from the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Anibots are a dangerous group of Autobots, to the point where they have to be kept in a roboto-zoo. They combine into the fearsome Dragon Beast and dislike the Constructicons.
The Anibots include:
- Simba (leader)
- Clump
- Pardo
- Shriek
- Thump
Fiction
Ask Vector Prime
Realities where Stinger, Bolts, Cubbie, and Stripes were among Blaster's cassettes often included Anibots as well. Beachcomber thought it cruel to keep them in a roboto-zoo but Vector Prime saw little alternative. Ask Vector Prime
Notes
The Anibots were an Autobot sub-group that featured in early drafts of The Transformers: The Movie. Their ranks include:
- Simba the lion, team leader
- Clump the rhinoceros
- Pardo the leopard
- Shriek the eagle
- Thump the buffalo
The Anibots merge to form the giant, lightning-breathing "mechano-beast" known as Dragon Beast.
Per an April 1985 draft of the film by Ron Friedman, the Anibots would have lived in the "Roboto-zoo" in the south quadrant of Autobot City. When the Constructicons attacked as part of Megatron's forces during the Battle of Autobot City, Ultra Magnus released the Anibots from their cages as a desperation move. Although the Anibots' unexpected appearance and unbridled ferocity initially gained them the upper hand, the Constructicons were able to turn the tide, forcing them into retreat with concentrated weapon fire. Later, when the Constructicons merged into Devastator to break through the city's walls as seen in the finished film, Wheeljack would have merged the Anibots into their colossal Dragon Beast form. Dragon Beast and Devastator battled, causing as much damage to the city around them as to one another, until the arrival of the Dinobots occupied Devastator's attention. Dragon Beast took advantage of the opportunity to smash Dirge and Ramjet.
Concept art was created by Floro Dery of at least their combined mode,[1] referred to only with the descriptor used in the original script, the "Mechano-Beast".[2] The second version is shown at the head of the article as a dragon. The notes on the right state that the first version had an exoskeleton and itself transformed to an "alien spaceship", while a third version existed as a five-headed hydra; although these and any other versions have yet to surface.
Given their alternate mode descriptions, it seems highly likely that the characters were eventually reworked to become the Predacons, although the fact that early concept art was done of them combined into a beast mode, rather than a humanoid as with the final Predaking suggests that the concept evolved significantly before coming to rest in its final form.
External links
References
- ↑ Dery's Etsy shop
- ↑ Script: "...they pick themselves out of rubble and from various fights in progress and INTERLOCK to create a huge, DRAGON LIKE MECHANO-BEAST which BREATHES LIGHTNING BOLTS which emerge from it's maw like the stylized ocean waves in a Japanese print"
