Colada (BW)
- Cohrada is a Maximal from the Beast Wars Neo portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
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)
Beast Wars Diorama Story
At some point, Cohrada was transported back in time to the planet Energoa, during the original Beast Wars between the Maximals and the Predacons. There, he met up with several Autobots and Decepticons from another dimension. A battle broke out between the Maximals, Predacons, Autobots and Decepticons. The other-dimensional Transformers eventually returned to their place of origin and the Beast Wars continued as they were. Beast Wars Diorama Story
Beast Wars Neo comic
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 While Cohrada did in fact die originally, this was undone thanks to the Pack using time travel to show up just as Shokaract began massacring the task force. With Shokaract distracted, Big Convoy's team traveled to the Pack's crashed ship, where a suspicious Cohrada stuck a gun in Bump's face. After the situation was made clear to them, the Maximals teamed up with the Pack and the reinforcements their had brought to defeat Shokaract once and for all. The Ascending #4
TransTech
Cohrada was seen among the inhabitants of the multiversal hub city of Axiom Nexus. Transcendent: Part 4
Toys
Beast Wars Neo
- Colada (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.
- Showdown in the Desert: Colada 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
- Colada (2007)
- Japanese ID number: TM-07
- Accessories: Water squirting gun
- As part of the Beast Wars Telemocha Series, Cohrada 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.
