Terrorsaur (BW)
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Terrorsaur is a Predacon in the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity
Power hungry and opportunistic, Terrorsaur never misses a chance to improve his standing within the Predacons. From cutting deals with Maximals to finding and keeping new power sources to himself, Terrorsaur is always thinking two steps ahead. Unfortunately, the big guns of the Beast Wars are usually thinking at least four steps ahead, and Terrorsaur always ends up on the short end.
Japanese name: Terrorsaurer
French name: Dinomenace
Spanish name: Terrorsaurio
Fiction
Beast Wars Cartoon
Voice Actor: Doug Parker (US) ??? (Japan)
One of the original members of Megatron's crew that stole the Golden Disk, Terrorsaur usually teamed up with Waspinator to act as the Predacon's air power. Throughout the Beast Wars Terrorsaur turned on Megatron at the drop of a hat, and was willing to team up with anyone who suggested doing so. In "Equal Measures" it was Dinobot, in "Double Jeopardy" it was Rattrap, and in "Dark Designs" it was an evil Rhinox.
His shining moment came during the episode "Power Surge". Terrorsaur discovered a floating mountain with a stable cache of energon that super charged his frame and allowed him to easily depose Megatron. However, the power boost was brief in duration, and the Maximals were able to destroy the floating mountain before Terrorsaur could implement any of his grand designs. Even worse, none of the Predacons followed his lead and they brought Megatron back online while he was fighting the Maximals.
Eventually, after being beaten back into line after each attempted takeover, Terrorsaur seemed to resign himself to his station... or, at least, decided to bide his time.
Terrorsaur's Beast Wars adventure came to an end when he was knocked into a lava pool by the quantum surge that resulted from the Planet Buster's destruction. His hand was briefly seen glowing, indicating that Terrorsaur was going through transmetalization. This was probably included as a "Trap Door" so the writers could resurrect Terrorsaur or Scorponok if they needed them later.
Beast Wars Metals Manga
Beast Wars Playstation Game
Terrorsaur flew rescue missions, using his flight capabilities to rescue captured Predacons from the Maximals' prison ships.
3H Universe Comics
Terrorsaur (or an alternate-universe incarnation of him) was one of the many Cybertrons kidnapped from his timestream by agents of Unicron and held in the Cauldron. Terrorsaur escaped and (presumably) returned to his timestream thanks to the efforts of Trailbreaker and Silverbolt.
Toys
Beast Wars
- Terrorsaur (Basic)
- Part of the first wave of Beats Wars toys, Terrorsaur transforms from an organic pteranadon to robot mode with a spring-loaded one-step transformation. In Japan, there are two different versions of this toy: one nearly identical to the Hasbro version, another with a more show-like colroation, lacking the green spots and purple paint, adding yellow to his beak and lightening the black plastic to gray.
- This mold was later used for Fractyl, Hydra, Lazorbeak and Dinobots Terrantoron.
- Terrorsaur (Deluxe Transmetal)
- Transmetal Terrorsaur transforms into a robotic pteranodon. He has a third "vehicle" mode; reconfiguring his wings and revealing VTOL fans, plus his tail section splits open to reveal twin thruster engines. In robot mode, his wing-tips detach to form blade weapons.
- This mold was later redecoed and slightly retooled to make Beast Machines Terranotron, and then redecoed and retooled differently to make Armada Terrorsaur. The mold was also the base model for the non-toy character Ravenus.
Merchandise
A Kabaya "candy toy" version of Terrorsaur was made available in Japan. Since he was gang molded with the other three toys in the assortment, this unpainted plastic kit was mainly peach and yellow.
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