Zebra Ball
- Zebra Ball is a Beastformer from the Beastformers portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Zebra Ball (ゼブラボール Zeburabōru), or just Zebra (ゼブラ Zebura), is one of the Autobot Beastformers fighting a war on the planet Beast. His role in the Autobot Beastformer forces is Grasslands Staff Officer. He also holds the rank of King of Johnston, where he was born in the city of Zebra, over Emperor Peguinis. He enjoys taking the time to thoroughly analyze objects and refuses to take action until his curiosity is satisfied, and is otherwise is a nice guy outside of an argumentative streak. Zebra Ball is known for his running speed and kicks that can bring down trees, and with his Super Zebra MVP Weapon in hand to cut down things in his path, he can maintain his speed even in areas of heavy vegetation.
Fiction
Beastformers manga
A combatant in the Beastformers' war with the Laser Beasts, Zebra Ball was manning the Wood Beetle's cannon during a Laser Beast attack. Beastformers VS Laser Beasts
Toys
Transformers: Beastformers
- Zebra Ball (Beastformer, 1987)
- Beast ID number: 69
- Accessories: Sword
- Part of the third series of Takara's Beastformers toys, Zebra Ball is an anthropomorphic zebra in purple and gray robotic armor. His left hand has been replaced with a short spear. The rubsign on his chest reveals one of three symbols; Fire, Water or Wood.
- He came in a green-grid generic "Cybertron 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
- Zebra Ball (Beastformer, 1988)
- Beast ID number: 54
- Accessories: "Super Zebra" MVP Weapon
- Re-released in the Transformers-less Beastformers sequel series, Zebra Ball 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 "Super Zebra" (スーパーゼブラ Sūpā Zebura).
- 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 Zebra Ball 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.)
- Zebra Ball (Gashapon/candy-toy Beastformer, 1988)
- Meiji ID number: 20
- Accessories: ??? weapon
- A small, super-deformed, articulation-free version of Zebra Ball was sold both as a gashapon capsule prize by Takara, and as a candy toy with "chocoballs" through the candy/ snack company Meiji. The candy toy version came with a bio/data card with its own role-playing rules; Zebra Ball has unique Transformers-era-style 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 come with a different Beastformer's weapon attached to their shoulder by a snippable sprue. Alligatron came with Zebra's "Super Zebra" weapon, but it is currently unknown what weapon Zebra came with; it's either Bowdog's "Dog Hunter" or Flykick's "Flying Typhoon".
Notes
Foreign names
- English: Zealot Zebra
