Baru (Prime)

Baru is a Decepticon-allied Mini-Con from the Aligned continuity family.

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Baru (バル Baru) can cut through this tin can like it was a tomato.

Toys

Prime

• Baru (Arms Micron W, 7-28-2012)
  • ID number: AMW-02
  • Energon Crystal: AP Mad

Baru transforms from a robot bird into a cleaver. He comes as an unassembled, unpainted "kit" on sprues, with customer-applied foil stickers for deco. He has multiple 5mm posts and holes as part of the Arms Micron play pattern, allowing him to be combined with other Mini-Cons to form bigger and more ridiculous weapons. However, he is specially designed to form the middle-blade of the "Super Combo Weapon" Dark Matter Calibur with Gabu and Dai.

Notes

• He was first announced under the name "Bogu" (ボグ Bogu) which is derived from the katakana spelling of "hawk" (ホーク hōku), with consonant-changing accents added to change "ho" to "bo" and "ku" to "gu", as well as dropping the vowel-extender.
• "Baru" on the other hand is derived from "falcon" (ファルコン farukon), condensed to two syllables and changing "fa" (ファ fu-a) to "ba" (バ ba). This may seem weird, but take note that Japanese has no native kana for "f" sounds, instead フ (hu/fu) with another vowel is used, with the vowel overriding the already near-silent "u". It's a cheat, but what can you do?
• Gabu, Baru and Dai were available earlier than the rest of the AMW series, but only at the Next Generation World Hobby Fair Summer '12 in Fukuoka, Japan, on June 30 and July 1. Purchasing all three also granted the buyer a free Firebolt Clear Yellow Version.