Dream Eater

Dream Eater is a Beastformer from the Beastformers portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

I believe you can get me through the night.

You will rarely see Dream Eater (ドリームイーター Dorīmu Ītā) on the battlefield. The Emperor of Uruk and an educator by nature, he prefers to use his strange gifts of telekinesis and hypnosis to help his fellow Beastformers. Capable of emitting alpha waves to promote rest and meditative mindsets in others, he can also manipulate others' dreams, planting suggestions, ideas and knowledge. He's even perfected "The Dream Method", a way for anyone to learn in their sleep, which he's even written up and published as a long-selling book.

But those talents can be weaponized, and he will do so to protect his homeworld. He prefers to seeks out enemies in their sleep, invading their dreams, planting visions and causing insomnia, leaving them weakened and unable to fight at all, preventing battles from happening in the first place. And his Quick Dreamer blade lives up to its name, capable of emitting a low-frequency hypnotic wave that can put any living being into a deep sleep.

It's a good thing he's nice.

Fiction

Beastformers comic

During the Laser Beasts' invasion of the surface world, Dream Eater and White Leo waved a white flag at the Laser Beast position, requesting negotiations. The Laser Beasts responded by opening fire on the pair. Beastformers VS Laser Beasts

Toys

Transformers: Beastformers

♪I could never sleep my way to the top
'Cuz my alarm clock always wakes me right up♪

• Dream Eater (Beastformer, 1987)
  • Beast ID number: 58
  • Accessories: Sword

Part of the third series of Takara's Beastformers toys, Dream Eater is a white anthopomorphic tapir in green robotic armor. His left arm ends in a two-fingered thumbless robotic claw. 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.

• Burst Sun Special Set (Multi-pack, 1987)
  • Accessories: Sword

The first Beastformers multipack, the Burstsun Special Set (バーストサンスペシャルセット Bāsutosan Supesharu Setto) contained ten figures. It could have one of two special editions of the faction leaders: either a clear-plastic "Ghost" version of Alligatron, or White Leo with the then-unique "Burstsun" rubsign (but no other notable changes). The other nine slots were filled out from a possible roster of twelve other figures, all unchanged from their individual releases. The box contained no windows, so you didn't know which toys you got until you opened it up.

The twelve possible standard Beastformers in the set were Black Jaguar, Būpink, Crowmax, Dog Hunter, Dream Eater, Earthhog, Mingo Kid, Muskhorn, Pangol, Slo, Udan, and White Cow.

Beastformers

• Dream Eater (Beastformer, 1988)
  • Beast ID number: 58
  • Accessories: "Quick Dreamer" MVP Weapon

Re-released in the Transformers-less Beastformers sequel series, Dream Eater 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 "Quick Dreamer" (クイックドリーマー Kuikku Dorīmā).

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

• His 1988 bio card gives him the nickname "Baku-san" (バクさん).
• Dream Eater's name and nickname are references to the baku, a dream-eating spirit similar to the tapir..
• The original art for Dream Eater/Torrential Tapir miscolors him with black fur and a gold weapon. The Transformers-less Beastformers release corrected this on the bio card, giving him the proper white fur and gray weapon.

Foreign names

• English: Torrential Tapir