Flying Attacker

Flying Attacker is a Beastformer from the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Flying Attacker (フライングアタッカー Furainguatakkā) 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 and air attack. He holds the rank of Emperor of Harriso, under King Platinum Tiger, and was born on the shores of Lake Midi.

Toys

Transformers: Beastformers

• Flying Attacker (Beastformer, 1987)
  • Beast ID number: 49
  • Accessories: Sword

Part of the second series of Takara's Beastformers toys, Flying Attacker is a yellow anthropomorphic flying squirrel in blue robotic armor with big shoulder-wings. The rubsign on his chest reveals one of three symbols; Fire, Water or Wood.

In the Hasbro Battle Beasts line, the figure could come with red chest-detailing, or yellow detailing and unpainted buck-teeth. It is uncertain if the latter version was released in Beastformers, though it did appear in at least one Beastformers checklist-poster.

He came in a green-grid generic "Cybertron Beastformer" box, with a bio card with a painted character image on a jungle backdrop. Re-released in Series 3, the 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 both 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

• Flying Attacker (Beastformer, 1988)
  • Beast ID number: 49
  • Accessories: "Musasabeamer" MVP Weapon

Re-released in the Transformers-less Beastformers sequel series, Flying Attacker 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 "Musasabeamer" (ムササビーマー Musasabīmā).

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 Flying Attacker 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.)

• Flying Attacker (Gashapon/candy-toy Beastformer, 1988)
  • Meiji ID number: 17
  • Accessories: ??? weapon

A small, super-deformed, articulation-free version of Brown Gyro 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, 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. Crabhit came with Flying Attacker's "Musasabeamer", but it is currently unknown whose weapon Flying Attacker had; it's either Flykick's "Flying Typhoon" or Bowdog's "Dog Fighter".

Notes

• The Hasbro Battle Beasts release of this toy has two paint variants: one version has yellow vents on his torso and unpainted buck-teeth, the other has red vents and white-painted teeth. It appears that only the red-vent version was sold in Beastformers, and only the red-vent version got full-color rubsigns in Battle Beasts.

Foreign names

• English: Squire Squirrel