Tasmania Kid (BW)
- Tasmania Kid is a Maximal from the Beast Wars II portion of the Beast Era continuity family.
Tasmania Kid is the youngest of Lio Convoy'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 Lio Convoy'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 fantasized robot modes of these forms were based off of Cheetor and Airazor. He was about to scan a bird, when a tasmanian devil jumped out in front of him, forcing him to accidentally scan it and become Tasmania Kid.
Beast Wars II/Neo manga
When Lio Convoy 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 is worshiped as a god of the planet of rabbit-formers Stampy hails from.
IDW comic continuity
Tasmania Kid is apparently one of Big Convoy's chief subordinates on Cybertron.
Along with Survive and Cohrada, he joined Big Convoy in investigating Shokaract's tower. Unfortunately, Shokaract emerged from within and grabbed Tasmania Kid in his claws. Kid was torn in two pieces and apparently killed. Big Convoy and the others were summarily defeated as well.
Fortunately, the Earthbound Maximal and Predacon teams took the Pack's transwarp cruiser and returned to the point in the time stream that Shokaract emerged from his tower. UNfortunately, it was still too late to save Tasmania Kid, who was torn in two pieces AGAIN just before Big Convoy and Shokaract noticed the newly-arrived transwarp cruiser.
Sheesh, Furman.
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.
- The same mold is used by Bound Rogue, whose coloration bears a striking resemblance to the contest-prize version of Tasmania Kid.
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