Drillfrog

Drillfrog is a Beastformer from the Headmasters portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Later, seriously regretted his decision to join the cast of Bucky O'Hare.

Drillfrog (ドリルフロッグ Dorirufuroggu), also known as Rog (ロッグ Roggu), is one of the many Beastformers who joined the insurgent army under Alligatron raised by Galvatron in order to aid his Decepticons in conquering the formerly-peaceful planet Beast. His role in the Decepticon-allied Beastformer forces is an underwater offensive soldier. He is aided in this role by the fact that he naturally contaminates drinking water with venom discharged from his body. His hands and feet can support his weight sticking to any surface, and he is a powerful jumper. Presumably these are inherent attributes of his species. His MVP Weapon, the Rog Driller, can drill through even bedrock, allowing him to burrow through the ground and attack from unexpected directions.

Drillfrog holds the rank of King of Barāki, in whose agricultural area he was born, over Emperor Snakebomb who he grew up alongside and is best friends with. When they fight together, they can employ their guerilla tactics on any battlefield, be it in the sky, on the ground or under water. He is popular for his lighthearted attitude but has a weakness for dark humor.

Fiction

The Headmasters cartoon

Voice actor: Hirohiko Kakegawa (Japanese)

Horny, horny, horny tonight.

Galvatron and the Decepticons came to planet Beast to enslave the population, forcing them to work on a mysterious engineering project. Alligatron and the Beasts loyal to him, including Drillfrog, became collaborators with the Decepticons, helping to enslave their own people. They were opposed by White Leo and his rebel forces. Drillfrog personally supervised in the slave pits, whipping his own people if they failed to work fast enough. After White Leo sought help from the Autobots, the Headmasters and Monsterbots arrived on Beast. Drillfrog watched over the prisoners, Danny and Wheelie, until they managed to escape. Rebellion on Planet Beast

The Headmasters comic

Drillfrog accompanied his leader Alligatron and Predaking in menacing the local Beastformers. When the Autobot Headmasters were captured, he stood guard over them until White Leo shot him in the face with an arrow. The Decisive Battle of Planet Beast!

Toys

Transformers: Beastformers

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• Drillfrog (Beastformer, 1987)
  • Beast ID number: 7
  • Accessories: Scythe

Part of the first series of Takara's Beastformers toys, Drillfrog is an anthropomorphic bright green bullfrog in high-tech maroon armor. His left arm ends in a (non-firing) missile. The rubsign on his chest reveals one of three symbols; Fire, Water or Wood.

The Hasbro Battle Beasts release of the figure can have an uncommon variant to his scythe weapon, lacking the "bolts" on the blade, and the "7" ID number on the opposite side from the normal version.

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

• Drillfrog (Beastformer, 1988)
  • Beast ID number: 7
  • Accessories: "Rog Driller" MVP Weapon

Re-released in the Transformers-less Beastformers sequel series, Drillfrog 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 "Rog Driller" (ロッグドリラー Roggu Dorirā).

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 Drillfrog 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

• The Hasbro release of "Horny Toad" (really guys?) was similarly (eventually) available with both styles of rubsign.

Foreign names

• English: Horny Toad