Wildthunder

Wildthunder is a Beastformer from the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Wildthunder (ワイルドサンダー Wairudosandā), or Thunder (サンダー Sandā) for short, is one of the many Beastformers who joined White Leo's resistance forces as Galvatron's Decepticons began to conquer the formerly-peaceful planet Beast with their army of cold-blooded insurgents. His role in the Autobot-allied Beastformer forces is land attack warrior. He also holds the rank of Emperor of Stoll, under King Elephan, and was born in the city of Stoll. While he's got sharp instincts and is quick to notice when something is wrong, he is also scatterbrained and impulsive, a bad combination that often sees him jumping to conclusions and acting without fully understanding the situation. He gets along well with Elephan, who empathizes with his faults and helps him overcome them, and together they make a mighty team. Wildthunder's MVP Weapon is the Thunder Bar, which can incapacitate machines by emitting a high-voltage current from its tip.

Fiction

The Headmasters manga

Wildthunder joined Kane in rescuing Chrome and Ros from Reprogamma. Wildthunder and the others soon went to observe the Decepticon Transformers in hiding. Kane, against the wishes of the others, leapt into action. The Decisive Battle of Planet Beast!

Toys

Transformers: Beastformers

• Wildthunder (Beastformer, 1987)
  • Beast ID number: 14
  • Accessories: Blade-weapon

Part of the first series of Takara's Beastformers toys, Wildthunder is a lavender anthropomorphic boar in dark blue robotic armor. The rubsign on his chest reveals one of three symbols; Fire, Water or Wood.

The Hasbro Battle Beasts release of the figure can vary in the tone of the green paint used on its armor, with some samples being a more desaturated and matte olive; it's uncertain if the Takara version has similar (minor) paint variation.

He was re-released in the subsequent second and third series; while the toy proper was not changed, the packaging and packed-in bio card was. The Series 1 release comes in a generic red-grid "Cybertron Beastformer" box, with a red-grid bio card with a painted character image on the front, though there was a random chance of his card being replaced by the rare "Holography Mirror" card. Series 2 came in a green-grid generic "Cybertron Beastformer" box, with the bio card putting the painted image on a jungle backdrop. Series 3's 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. In the green-box releases, 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

• Wildthunder (Beastformer, 1988)
  • Beast ID number: 14
  • Accessories: "Thunder Bar" MVP Weapon

Re-released in the Transformers-less Beastformers sequel series, Wildthunder 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 "Thunder Bar" (サンダーバー Sandābā).

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 Wildthunder 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.)

• Wildthunder (Gashapon/candy-toy Beastformer, 1988)
  • Meiji ID number: 31
  • Accessories: ??? weapon

A small, super-deformed, articulation-free version of Wildthunder was produced by Meiji, and sold both as a gashapon capsule prize and as a candy toy with "chocoballs". The candy toy version came with a bio/data card with its own role-playing rules, using the old Transformers-era painted character art.

This stumpy lil fellow could be found in red, blue or green plastic, representing the Fire, Water and Wood elements (even though he still had a rubsign). All of the Meji Beastformers comes with a different Beastformer's weapon attached to their shoulder by a snippable sprue, common for inexpensive toys of that nature. However, we do not currently know which weapon Wildthunder came with, or who came with his weapon.

Notes

Foreign names

• English: Swiny Boar