Dark Raccoon
- Dark Raccoon is a Beastformer from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Dark Raccoon (ダークラコーン Dāku Rakōn) is the kind of guy who likes to roam around. He's friendly and loves people, but he's also got a bad case of wanderlust, and has a tendency to just disappear without warning, vanishing for days on end. He spends this time idly taking in the nature of planet Beast by himself, enjoying the quiet, laying back and staring at the sky for hours, letting his mind drift... to thoughts of how to make things explode.
This unassuming raccoon happens to be the planet's foremost genius in the field of explosives and munitions. While his habit of vanishing is often infuriating to those relying on him, it's almost guaranteed he'll come back with some new, more powerful design for explosive ordinance. His own MVP Weapon, the Dark Fire (ダークファイヤー Dāku Faiyā) blade, is itself a colossally powerful weapon, able to ignite with a flame that burns at a million degrees. Good thing he's on White Leo's side.
Following the war, he has become the Emperor of his homeland of Madra, serving under King Bullorn. The pair have grown incredibly close, spending most of their free time together (when Raccoon hasn't wandered off, anyway).
Toys
Transformers: Beastformers
- Dark Raccoon (Beastformer, 1987)
- Beast ID number: 39
- Accessories: Axe
- Part of the second series of Takara's Beastformers toys, Dark Raccoon is an anthropomorphic raccoon in green robotic armor. His left arm ends in an open hand rather than a weapon-gripping hand. 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 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
- Dark Raccoon (Beastformer, 1988)
- Beast ID number: 39
- Accessories: "Dark Fire" MVP Weapon
- Re-released in the Transformers-less Beastformers sequel series, Dark Raccoon 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 "Dark Fire".
- He was sold in two similar-but-different styles of boxes. One wholly-generic version, sold in large display boxes like the Transformers releases, advertised the chance for the included bio card to instead be a rare holofoil card of White Leo with a "Burstsun" rubsign in a baggie taped to the back, so you could apply it to the Beastformer of your choice. The more common version has a slightly different box with a peg-hole in the top flap, and has a sticker on the bottom with his name and role on it.
- Late 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
- Dark Raccoon's 1987 poster-checklist art gives him very dark-gray fur, and shows him with a weird weapon that kinda looks like a more complicated version of Beafox's blade. His 1988 art corrects both of these mistakes.
- His '88 bio card gives him the nickname "Dark" (ダーク Dāku), and notes he was born in Madra's part of Tamara Bay.
- In case you're wondering, 1 million degrees (presumably Celsius) is roughly a third as hot as the Sun's convection zone, the part just under its surface.
Foreign names
- English: Dragoon Racoon
