Armordillo

Armordillo is aMaximalfrom theBeast Warsportion of theGeneration 1continuity family.

Armored Armadillo is weak toSpark Mandrill.

Armordillois a master mechanic and explosives expert who carts a vast array of tools and devices around beneath his heavily armored shell. His specialty is constructing brilliantly elaborate traps and then waiting silently and patiently (with a patience that borders on supernatural in his comrades' eyes) for however many days or weeks it takes for a Predacon to stumble into it. His satisfaction when they inevitably do makes it all worthwhile. In addition to his tools and devices he has an impressive optic array, a hidden laser weapon, and a Morningstar melee weapon that combined with his heavy armor make up for the fact that he moves extremely slowly.^[1]

Fiction

2006 IDWBeast Warscontinuity

Armordillo was one of theprotoformsleft behind by the crew of theAxalonon prehistoricEarth.He was activated and put inchronal phasebyRazorbeastatMagmatron's request, but was protected from Magmatron'sPredaconshell-program by Razorbeast's viral code.The Gathering #1Soon after awakening, he joined up withBantor,Noctorro,Stinkbomb,andK-9to freeTorcafrom a tar pit.The Gathering #2After following Razorbeast's signal for days, and picking up more Maximals along the way, Armordillo rode into battle against Magmatron's Predacons atop Torca, presumably joining up with Razorbeast's army after their victory.The Gathering #4

Smooth on the inside, crunchy on the outside. ARMORDILLO!

Even with all the Maximals joined up, the battle against the Predacons continued. During a battle outside the Maximal base, Armordillo was happy about the existence of trenches, and whenGrimlockarrived to save the day, Armordillo reminded his friends that "patience brings its own reward".The Ascending #2The Maximals and Predacons later teamed up to fight theBlendtrons,and Armordillo and several others dogpiledDrancronduring the battle.The Ascending #4

Beast Wars: Uprising

Participating in a battle of theGames,Armordillo found himself the last survivor of the Maximal team, facing down the lone PredaconBuzzclaw.Having successfully avoided his opponent's corrosive vomit attack and taken the fallenDrancron's missile launcher, he was able to shoot Buzzclaw down during an attempted surprise attack, but as he moved in for the kill, he tripped and impaled himself on a metal spike used by Buzzclaw as a makeshift weapon.

Though Buzzclaw would celebrate his victory for many years to follow, onceLio Convoyrevealed that many of the Games had been fixed, he began harboring doubts that Armordillo had been more than just unlucky.Head Games

Legends World

Armordillo was part of a crowd who cheered for "Optimus Prime" for defeatingDevil Z,unaware their savior was in factGinrai.Bonus Edition Vol. 35

Scorching Heat Showdown

After discovering the existence of the crashedArkon their planet, Armordillo attempted to bring this information to the otherMaximals,but was pursued bySnapper.Armordillo was ultimately shot and killed byMegalligator,and the twoPredaconsattempted to extract the information from his memories before being interrupted byConvobat.Scorching Heat Showdown

2021Beast Warscomic

The Cybertronian who would become Armordillo was one of the many Maximal protoforms aboard theAxalon.To eliminate the Maximals and Predacons,Tarantulasand theVokbrought every crashedstasis podthey could find online and reprogrammed the protoforms within into loyal "Children of the Vok".Together, they attacked the crashedDarksydein an attempt to take out the Maximal-Predacon alliance; when the Maximals and Predacons destroyed the Vok themselves, however, their remaining followers agreed to a truce and left to live peacefully in the wilderness.The End

Toys

Beast Wars

• Armordillo(Basic Class, 1996)

• Accessories:Mace/foot, rifle/foot
• Known designers:Takio Ejima(TakaraTomy),Masakatsu Saito(concept artist)

Part of the second wave of first-yearBeast WarsBasics, Armordillo transforms into a Brazilian giant armadillo, per the pun. He shifts torobot modewith a spring-loadedone-step transformationby pulling up on his tail. His left rearbeast modeleg separates to form a non-firing "laser rifle", while the right leg becomes achain-and-macemelee weapon. These weapons plug into holes on the outer wrists of his forelegs/robot-arms since his robot-mode "hands" are just flat digging claws.

This toy was released in Japan on its own as part of a 1998 mail order catalog theater-goers could buy from. This mold was later used to makeBeast Wars NeoBumpandRobotmastersPsycho-Orb.

• More information on Armordillo at TFU.info

• Volcano Showdown: Armor VS Snapper(Vs Playset, 1997)

• ID number:VS-X1
• Accessories:Mace/foot, rifle/foot

Armordillo was available in Japan (under the name "Armor") exclusively in a large" Volcano Showdown "( núi lửa の đối quyếtKazan no Taiketsu) set containing him, his "rival"Snapper,and a large battery-operatedvolcano playset.The two figures in the set are functionally identical to the Hasbro releases of the toys.

It has been hypothesized that this playset was originally slated for an abandonedMicromanline, which is made plausible by the scale of various sculpted details and general incompatibility with the two figures it comes with.

Merchandise

Beast Wars Transformers Mutating Card Game

• Beast Wars Transformers Mutating Card Game(1997)

Armordillo was one of the 24 beast warriors to receive a battle card representation for theBeast Warscard game.

Notes

Foreign names

• Japanese:Armor(アルマーArumā)^[2]
• French:Tatou(Canada, "Armadillo" )
• Italian:Armodillo
• Spanish:Armadillo

References