Heinrad (BW)
- Heinrad is a Maximal in the Beast Era portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Heinrad (ハインラッド Hainraddo) possesses the unique ability to stop time for a short while. His beast mode is that of a tanuki (Raccoon Dog). Meaning he has a giant pair of testicles. This 'bot's literally got ball bearings of chrome steel.
Fiction
Beast Wars Neo cartoon
- Voice actor: Yōji Ietomi (Japanese)
Heinrad is a lovable, drunken goofball, often showing a lazy and relaxed personality. He also moderately kicks ass by freezing time to re-arrange battle scenes so Predacons are hit with their own laser blasts. Nice.
Beast Wars Neo comic
Heinrad was one of the five rookies among the crew of the Gung-Ho, or so everyone believed. In fact, he manipulated Vector Sigma in order to allow him to infiltrate Big Convoy's crew. Double Cross
He was beaten by Guiledart and Saberback along with other rookies in the Predacon base on the planet Gaea. Fortunately, the rookies were saved by Big Convoy. The Five Rookies
When Big Convoy went to Jörmungandr with Break, Stampy and Cohrada, he left Longrack in charge of the Gung-Ho along with Heinrad. A Battle Fought Alone
After a while, two Predacons, Hydra and Hardhead, broke into the Gung-Ho, claiming they had placed a time bomb somewhere on the ship. Longrack tried to defuse the bomb with a manual to guide him, but because of an omission in the manual, he cut the wrong wire. As the bomb started to detonate, Heinrad froze time and reversed it back to the moment when Longrack tried to cut the wrong wire. Heinrad placed Longrack's hand on the correct wire and started time again. Thus, the bomb was successfully defused. A Battle Fought Alone
Later on that day, Stampy walked by Heinrad's room and heard something. He peeped in on Heinrad out of curiosity and saw him looking serious, talking to someone mysterious on his communication screen. Heinrad told his master he'd used his power due to the emergency, but stated there was no possibility that his identity had been blown. Stampy was frightened upon seeing the scene. A Battle Fought Alone
Heinrad later used his power to save Big Convoy from being eaten by Unicron along with Magmatron. He then revealed to Big Convoy his true identity as an undercover agent of the "Ruler of Time and Space". Before his disappearance, he asked Big Convoy to help destroy "the cron of the universe"—Unicron. Double Cross
After the rookies' graduation, Heinrad showed up in front of Break, Longrack, Stampy, and Cohrada while they mourned for Big Convoy at the cemetery. He took them on a journey to a snowy planet to say goodbye to Big Convoy, who had been reborn as a mammoth named "Big". Return to Zero
IDW Beast Wars comics
Heinrad was a member of the Bi-Partate Committee for State Affairs, alongside Big Convoy and Magmatron. The Gathering issue 1
None of his fellow Maximals are sure if he's from the past, present or future. However, they believe he might not have full control over his chronal phase abilities, as sometimes he just blinks out of the timeline. Beast Wars Sourcebook
Toys
- Heinrad (1999)
- Japanese ID number: S-3
- Accessories: Notebook, sake bottle, 2 missiles
- Heinrad transforms into a tanuki. Tanuki in folklore are usually depicted with massive testicles which they can drum on. Heinrad's testicles are rather large for a Transformer (i.e. he has some), but quite small for a tanuki. His articulation, while good, does not allow him to drum on his testicles. In tanuki mode he can also hold a bottle of sake (tanuki are drunks) and a book of IOUs (used to trick people into giving him money).
- In robot mode, Heinrad can combine his folklore accessories to make a gun which can be held in his right hand. His missiles can be mounted on his calves, or fired with the gun. In this mode his testicles hang from his hips and his spark crystal is located in his right ball. Heinrad's weakness is clear.
- In both modes, Heinrad has a working analogue clock in his chest that is powered by a single AAA battery and actually keeps good time. He functions as an alarm clock—pull up on his robot head to activate him, then push down to turn off the alarm. He's very shrill. The alarm cannot be activated when Heinrad is in tanuki mode, as the activation switch (the robot head) is concealed.
Trivia
- A clock in the shape of Heinrad appears in Koji's bedroom in the Robots in Disguise episode "Battle Protocol!".
External links
- Script consultant's notes on Heinrad's appearance The Gathering #1.
- Wikipedia articles about Raccoon Dogs and their position in folklore.
