Longrack (BW)
| The name or term "Longrack" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Longrack (disambiguation). |
- Longrack is a Maximal from the Beast Wars Neo portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The best way to describe Longrack (ロングラック Rongurakku) is that he's the kind of cadet who runs for Student Council President because he believes that the job really matters, darn it all. A stickler for rules and protocol, expect to see him issuing demerits to other Maximals while delivering "you'll thank me for this, someday" rhetoric. Longrack is talky, annoying, over-serious, and has a stick up his tailpipe as long as his beast mode's neck. The "Brainy Smurf" of Big Convoy's crew, Longrack means well, but that doesn't stop him from being a major tool, or getting into spats with the less-serious-minded among the crew. Everyone from Break to Colada to Mach Kick gives him a hard time and he just can't stand it.
But Big Convoy appointed him sub-commander for a reason and it's because he gets the job done. By giving his teammates an authority figure to uniformly despise or mock, he actually brings them together as a cohesive unit. In his spare time, he likes to tinker with machines and is something of an accomplished inventor, revealing a creative side that's typically hidden by his protocol-minded demeanor.
Fiction
Beast Wars Neo cartoon
- Voice actor: Jun Uemoto (Japanese), Lee Yu Wa (Korean)
Beast Wars Neo manga
Longrack came from a distinguished and proud family of giraffe Convoys. A Battle Fought Alone
After his adventures serving under Big Convoy, Longrack continued to study in order to gain admission into the Convoy Council. In the meantime, he worked personnel affairs and supply management. What Became of the Five....
IDW Beast Wars comics
Longrack was part of Lio Convoy's elite special operations unit, the Pack. He traveled with them to prehistoric Earth to rescue Razorbeast and company. On the way there, Stampy's "bounding" exuberance, quite predictably, got on Longrack's nerves. Once their team landed in the middle of a battle with the Predacons, he used his long giraffe neck to take a bite out of Buzz Saw. The Ascending #2
Later, Longrack identified a creature running rampant and attacking other Maximals to be Razorbeast, reporting such to his commander, Lio Convoy. Once the Pack was brought up-to-date on the situation, both on Earth and Cybertron, Longrack was tasked with gathering as many Maximals as he could fit into the Pack's shuttle. The Ascending #3
Travelling back to their home planet to combat the threat there, Longrack wielded Stampy in his weapon configuration, and blasted away at Shokaract. He made it through the final battle between the herald of Unicron and the combined Maximal and Predacon forces relatively unscathed. The Ascending #4
Beast Wars: Uprising
Longrack was the stick-up-the-aft Maximal first officer of the Dinosaur, in charge of a Predacon enlisted crew. Although nominally in command for day-to-day duties and assignment (since their Builder captain was too large to sit on the bridge), Longrack was frequently overshadowed or overruled by the captain's holographic presence or the Micromaster political officer, Synapse. This made the already uptight first officer short-tempered and impotent in his command.
One day, the Dinosaur picked up an apparent distress call from prisoners of the lost ship Claustrum on the planet LGC-8803. Longrack eagerly prepared to lead a landing party, only to be passive-aggressively overridden by Synapse, claiming to represent the captain. Longrack was forced to name his fellow Maximal officer Apelinq in charge of the party instead. The Dinosaur came under fire from an Intruder ship while the shuttle was launching planetside, taking serious damage before blasting their attacker.
As Longrack tried to maintain control of his ship, internal strife wracked his crew. A transmission from Cybertron alerted the protoformers on board to an Uprising back home, and Synapse was desperate to keep them from following suit. He killed Hydra and Killer Punch in an attempt to prevent word from spreading, but failed. Chief Engineer Magmatron made it to the bridge and recruited Longrack and Guiledart in a mutiny to take the ship. Longrack was again left behind to hold the bridge while the Predacons sought to sever the captain's control of the ship, souring him to the situation. He briefly realigned himself with Synapse and the Builders, but the Micromaster's complete disregard for the lives of the crew snapped him back to his senses, and Longrack helped disable Synapse.
The damage to the Dinosaur was too severe to fix, and the starship began to crash onto LGC-8803 below. Fortunately, Captain Full-Tilt was not on board with Synapse's murderous ways, and he aided Magmatron in saving the ship. It did crash, but transformed as it do so, arresting momentum and opening up into Dinosaur City, becoming a new colony. Magmatron and several members of the crew chose to take the shuttle and return to fight in the Grand Uprising, while Longrack remained behind and proclaimed himself mayor of the new city. Intersectionality
A decade after the Uprising ended, Governor Longrack oversaw the developing colony as it became a boom town for immigrants, scientists, and philosophers eager to visit the lost works of the Logicons on Metascan Omega. He received two rather disconcerting interruptions. First, Wraiths of the Vok arrived to declare mortals unworthy of the knowledge of Metascan Omega. They challenged Longrack and his colonists to prove their worth, or face sterilization. Second was the arrival of Lio Convoy, Architect of the Grand Uprising... The Inexorable March
Legends comic
In the Legends World, Longrack was an earnest high school student and the class president. When he heard they were getting a new teacher, he hoped it would be a person of discipline, Year 3, Class B Big-sensei but was instead met with the nerdy Big Convoy who began teaching them about Transformers instead of regular subjects. Longrack took this in stride and merely asked him if there would be tests on the subject. First Lesson First During sports day, Longrack attempted ice skating and got crushed under Big's weight during the cavalry battle. Hot-blooded Break Over time, Big's enthusiasm for Transformers infected Longrack's love for studying and he began learning about Transformers to the point of neglecting other subjects. This caused Big to realize he was being a bad influence on his students and start teaching normally. Preparatory Reviewer Longrack One day, Longrack found Big asleep during class. Bonus Edition Vol. 59
2005 IDW continuity
Longrack was a fellow Eukarian friend of Tasmania Kid, Gimlet, and Bump. Time Will Rust
Toys
Beast Wars Neo
- Longrack (Mega, 1999)
- ID number: C-29
- Accessories: Knife, 2 missiles
- Longrack transforms into a giraffe. His beast mode head has its tongue stuck out, and pushing it in makes the white pupils of his eyes disappear. Uh... yeah.
- Anyway, his robot mode is laden with gimmicks. His beast mode forelegs each hide a spring-loaded missile launcher, though getting them into a useful firing position is tricky. His giraffe neck becomes his right arm, which has a spring-loaded extending claw. This claw also features a 5mm-wide "clip", allowing him to hold other accessories (or his comrades Stampy and Break in their gun modes) with that arm. His left arm's gauntlet has a flip-out knife, which is removable, but due to the plastic tolerances is tricky to remove and replace. He also has a third "Arm Vehicle" mode that is best not talked about at all, though it does have the sole redeeming feature of putting his missile launchers into an actually useful firing position.
- Showdown in the Savannah: Longrack VS Guiledart (Vs pack, 1999)
- ID number: VS-29
- Accessories: Knife, 2 missiles
- Longrack was available both separately and in a vs-pack with the Predacon Guiledart. Both toys were identical to their individual releases.
Cybertron
- Longrack (Deluxe, 2005)
- Accessories: Cybertron Autobot Cyber Key
- For the Hasbro release of the toy, Longrack was put in an individual package. Longrack is a retool of Armada Hoist, transforming into a Cybertronic excavator. Plugging a Cyber Planet Key into his right arm unlocks his shovel-arm, which can punch forward by pressing in the plunger mechanism. He came with a silver-bordered Cybertron-Autobot style Cyber Planet Key. His Cyber Planet Key has the Cyber Key Code "d48m" tampographed on its back.
- This mold was used to make the BotCon 2006 Darksyde Dinobot. The original version of the mold was also used to make Universe (2003) Ransack.
Merchandise
Beast Wars Gum
- Longrack (candy toy, 1999)
- A snap together model kit of Longrack was available as part of Kabaya's Beast Wars Gum, sculpted entirely from yellow plastic. He could transform from robot to beast mode by being broken down into its component parts, then rebuilt into a new mode. It came with a stick of gum.
Notes
- In giraffe mode, Longrack's toy proudly displays his big red tongue. But as we all know, giraffes actually have black tongues.
- Transformers Vault erroneously calls him Longneck.
Foreign names
- Korean: Giraffot (지라포트 Jirapoteu)
