Shield Dragon
- Shield Dragon is a Beastformer from the Beastformers portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Shield Dragon (シールドドラゴン Shīrudo Doragon), also known by the nickname Scarf (エリマキ Erimaki), is one of the Decepticon Beastformers fighting a war on the planet Beast. The Emperor of Zigrad, he's a brutal, nasty sort who believes might makes right, a personality that sees him getting along well with Zigrad's ruthless king, Cobrander, and together they have turned the country into a tyranny condemned by the rest of Beast for being rife with inequality. His role in the Decepticon Beastformer forces is communications soldier thanks to his natural ability to communicate across long distances by emitting radio waves, an ability he can also use offensively by adjusting the waves' frequency and focal point, amplifying them to the point where they can become lethal. This ability is aided by his MVP Weapon, the Teleprojector, which lets him capture video and audio from afar and play it back. His place of birth is the Dragon Peninsula.
Fiction
Beastformers comic
Shield Dragon fought against the Laser Beasts when they emerged from their underground kingdom to challenge the Beastformers for the surface of the planet. Beastformers VS Laser Beasts
Toys
Transformers: Beastformers
- Shield Dragon (Beastformer, 1987)
- Beast ID number: 54
- Accessories: Axe
- Part of the third series of Takara's Beastformers toys, Shield Dragon is an anthopomorphic frilled lizard in blue 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 line-art character image first used in Hasbro's Battle Beasts cast poster (rather than the painted images of the prior two 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
- Shield Dragon (Beastformer, 1988)
- Beast ID number: 54
- Accessories: "Teleprojector" MVP Weapon
- Re-released in the Transformers-less Beastformers sequel series, Shield Dragon 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 "Teleprojector" (テレプロジェクター Terepurojekutā).
- 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 Shield Dragon 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.)
- Perfect 6-Piece Set (Box set, 1988)
- Accessories: "Teleprojector" MVP Weapon
- Shield Dragon was also part of the "Perfect 6-Piece Set" (パーフェクト6体セット Pāfekuto 6 Tai Setto, the English text on the packaging renders it as "Beastformer 6 Animals Set") multi-pack.... but he was not always actually in it.
- One of the six slots in this box set will always have the exclusive Crystal Killer Fish, randomly taking the place of one of the six "normal" figures in the pack: Baboon, Cobrander, Demonkey, Eagle Killer, Little Serow, or Shield Dragon. Given that this set was the only way to obtain Demonkey and Little Serow in the entirety of Beastformers's run, having Crystal Killer Fish replace one of those two would be... frustrating. At least you could find Shield Dragon individually.
Notes
Foreign names
- English: Leapin' Lizard
