Colada (BW)

Cohrada is a Maximal from the Beast Wars Neo portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Who needs fingers when you have a gun and a whip?

Cohrada (コラーダ Korāda) is a hothead with absolutely no patience. He hates sitting around and wasting time when he could be out fighting a battle or two. He likes to fight by himself since he thinks his teammates will just get in his way. Cohrada is also very cold and rarely acknowledges the positive qualities of others. He’s had a strong rivalry with Break since the early days of the Maximal military academy and takes every opportunity he can get to outdo his teammate. Though impatient and easily frustrated, he knows a good plan when he sees one and isn’t so careless as to ignore it.

Fiction

Beast Wars Neo cartoon

Voice actor: Makoto Ueki (Japanese)

3H comics

Cohrada was a member of the post-Reformatting Maximal High Council. Homecoming

IDW Beast Wars comics

After the Pax Cybertronia was declared, Cohrada left the official Maximal army to work as an independent agent, since he had little patience for the rules and laws of peacetime. Beast Wars Sourcebook

Serving as part of Big Convoy's task force on the trail of Cybertron's illicit trade in Angolmois, Cohrada was present when the Maximal leader located the newly risen tower headquarters of Shokaract. He speculated that this was in fact a structure from an older era of Cybertron, thrust to the surface of the planet by an unknown force. Of course then Shokaract decided that he and the other members of the task force had to die. The Ascending #3

TransTech comic

Weaving through the streets like a... a...

Cohrada was seen among the inhabitants of the multiversal hub city of Axiom Nexus. Transcendent: Part 4

Toys

Beast Wars Neo

Snake? Snake?! SNAAAAAAAAAAKE!

• Cohrada (Deluxe, 1999)
  • Japanese ID number: C-30
  • Accessories: Water-squirting gun

Cohrada transforms into an organic cobra. His tail is segmented to "whip" freely (like a great many plastic snake toys), plus he has a soft-plastic "bladder" in his mouth that squirts water by pressing on the panel at the top of the snake-mode's hood. Both gimmicks are available in his robot mode; the whip-tail forming his right arm while the bladder-blaster mounts on his left wrist. He also has a third "Gun Mode" that is best left forgotten.

• More information on Cohrada at TFU.info

• Showdown in the Desert: Corrada VS Saberback (Deluxe VS set, 1999)
  • Japanese ID number: VS-30
  • Accessories: Water-squirting gun

Cohrada was also available in a two-pack with the "Destoron" Saberback. The two toys were identical to their individual releases.

Beast Wars Telemocha Series

• Cohrada (2007)
  • Japanese ID number: TM-07
  • Accessories: Water squirting gun

As part of the Beast Wars Telemocha Series, Colada was extensively repainted so as to blend in with the other toys in the line, which got paint jobs hewing very closely to the Mainframe models of the CGI show's cast. He came with a DVD of the Beast Wars episode "A Better Mousetrap"... which he was not in. Oh well.

Notes

• Cohrada's name is likely taken from either the drink piña colada, which is represented in Katakana as ピニャ・コラーダ (pinya korāda), or the sword Colada. Nevertheless, we're stuck with "Cohrada", since Beast Wars Sourcebook is the only English fiction with the character in it, and it uses that spelling. Neither name actually makes much in the way of sense.