Zoids

Zoids (ゾイド Zoido) is a Tomy toyline featuring giant bestial robots.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

In 2016 when Grimlock rampaged through Amarillo, local human Brandon was quick enough to film it on his smartphone and upload it to the Internet under the title "OMG> ZOIDS R BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again!

Ask Vector Prime

Multiversal observer Vector Prime was puzzled by an observed overlap between the beasts of Cymond 999.04 Alpha and the Malgus Cluster. Ask Vector Prime, 15 June 2015

Notes

• Zoids began in 1982 and has continued after Tomy's 2006 merger with Takara. At the time of the above IDW comic story, Zoids was indeed in a dormant period, with Zoids: Wild not premiering until 2018.
• The Animated Decepticon Megadeath is described as transforming into a "Guylos EX-038 Assault Craft" from the first Zoids anime.
• Legacy toyline personnel Ben MacCrae and Mark Maher lampshaded the heavy Zoids influence that went into the beast mode of Legacy: United Thundertron by offering that the pirate had crash landed on the Zoid homeworld of Planet Zi and scanned one of the franchise's trademark ligers.

External links

• Zoids at Wikipedia