Tasmania Kid (BW)

Tasmania Kid is a Maximal from the Beast Wars II portion of the Beast Era continuity family.

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But where's Diggery Dingo and Wendle T. Wolf?

Tasmania Kid is the youngest of Leo Prime's crew, and the most luckless. He wants nothing more than to be recognized as a full-fledged Maximal warrior, but his youthful exuberance and tendancy to leap before he looks keep getting in the way. He loves to run through the wilds, and often goes out against commander Leo Prime's orders.

One time he went pee-pee on a forest fire to put it out. He probably drank two slabs of beer to do so.

Fiction

Beast Wars II cartoon

Voice actor: Katashi Ishizuka

When he was thinking of what animal to scan in order to gain a beast mode, he thought of either a cheetah or a bird. His fantased robot modes of these forms were based off Cheetor and Airazor. He was about to scan a bird, when a tasmanian devil jump out in front of him, forcing him to accidentally scan it and become Tasmania Kid.

Beast Wars II/Neo manga

Tasmania Kid *is* The Road Warrior.

When Leo Prime wrecks Apache's room in a drunken rampage, Apache scolds Kid, who decides to Run away. Kid is attacked and captured by the Cyborg Beasts who plan to make him one of them. This plan fails when Apache single handedly annihilates the Predacon forces Rambo-style.

In the follow-up Beast Wars Neo manga, Tasmania Kid was the founder of the planet of rabbit-formers Stampy hails from.

Toys

Beast Wars II

• Tasmania Kid (Basic, 1998)

Japanese ID number: C-14

Tasmania Kid's only toy is virtually identical to the Hasbro Beast Wars toy Snarl, transforming into an (alleged) Tasmanian devil. By holding the toy by its tail in beast mode and pulling the trigger, his body leaps forward in a spring-loaded lunging attack. A blue and yellow version of the toy was awarded as a speical prize along with many other oddly-colored Beast Wars II Maximals in a magazine contest in Japan; a design contest that resulted in the creation of Star Upper.

Tasmania Kid was available both as an individual, and in a two-pack with the Predacon Dirge.

The same mold is used by Bound Rogue, whose coloration bears a striking resemblance to the contest-prize version of Tasmania Kid.

External links

• Snarl (aka Tasmania Kid) at TFU.ino

From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.