Lazorbeak

Lazorbeak iz aPredaconfrom theBeast Warsportion of theGeneration 1 continuity family.

... If those are what pterosaur wings actually looked like, I'm a monkey's uncle.

A fast flying pirate of the air, the mean menace that isLazorbeaksatiates his thirst for battle by seeking the one good pointMaximalshave: their melting points! He is aided in this by a powerful laser weapon. Unfortunately, his aggressive usage of this weapon rapidly diminishes hisenergonlevels, usually limiting Lazorbeak to making only brief aerial attacks before converting back to pteranodon mode.

Fiction

2006 IDWBeast Warscontinuity

Wait, I'd rather fade away than burn ouAAAAAAG-

Lazorbeak was one of theprotoformsleft onEarthby theAxalonreprogrammed into Predacons byMagmatron.The Gathering #2He was sent to search forRazorbeastand his team of Maximals from the air by the recently revivedRavage.The Gathering #3WhenSky Shadowdiscovered the Maximals' lair, Lazorbeak was among the Predacons who participated in the battle that ensued. After being beaten by the Maximals and their newly arrived reinforcements, Lazorbeak presumably retreated along with the other Predacons.The Gathering #4

Weeks later, he joined in on the all-out assault ordered by Ravage on the Maximals' base camp.The Ascending #1He was briefly seen dogfighting withAir Hammer.The Ascending #2When theBlendtronscrashed that party, Lazorbeak and the other Predacons teamed up with the Maximals to fight theAngolmois-powered newcomers. WithSpittor's help, Lazorbeak managed to getRartoratato spear his own teammateDrancronwith his stinger. Unfortunately, this caused a violent Angolmois explosion that apparently wiped the whole lot of them out, Lazorbeak included.The Ascending #4

Recordicons

Laserbeakcomplained that the bartender had written "Lazerbeak" on his tab and spelling it with a 'z' made him look like an illiterate loser. Unfortunately Lazorbeak overheard and took it personally.Recordicons #16Lazorbeak was questioned byAir Hammerover whether any of the guys around were the original guys they shared names with. After having to clarify thatGarboylwas not the originalGarboil,and witnessingSoundwaveprojectile vomiting, Lazorbeak expressed the hope that they weren't.Recordicons #26

2005 IDW continuity

Lazorbeak was one ofOnyx Prime's Maximals. During Onyx's invasion of Cybertron, he was one of the many Maximals who battledArceeand lost;JetfireandAileroncame across his remains shortly afterwards.Endless Forever

Toys

Beast Wars

The first person that says he can see my feet sticking out of mybeast modeneck gets shot in the face!

• Lazorbeak(Basic, 1997)

• Accessories:Pistol
• Known designers:Masakatsu Saito(concept artist)

The only new toy in the third wave of year-twoBeast WarsBasics, Lazorbeak is actually an entirely new mold-set based on the originalTerrorsaurmold, transforming from an organicPteranodontorobot modewith a spring-loaded mostly-one-step transformation, activated by pulling back on his beast-mode head. (His hands and feet need to be folded out separately.) His handgun folds up to store inside the empty area behind his robot mode head, tucking away neatly in beast mode.

Lazorbeak's most immediately-noticeable physical change from Terrorsaur is the addition of an indent for anenergon chipunder his beast-mode right wing, but there are lots and lots of small proportion and detail changes throughout the two toys, especially in the faces.^[1]

The Lazorbeak mold was also used to make later runs of Terrorsaur in the UK, as well asBeast Wars NeoHydraandDinobotsTerranotron.The original tooling was used to makeFractylandAge of ExtinctionStrafe(no, really).

This toy was released in Japan as an import with a Takara-applied sticker. Lazorbeak was alsorepurposedasa powered-up Terrorsaurand asBeast Wars Shattered GlassTerrorsaur.

• More information on Lazorbeak at TFU.info

Notes

• Lazorbeak's on-packagebioincludes a reference toGeneration 1Laserbeak's, with both characters using a variation of the cruel joke that "the only point" they like in their enemies is "their melting point." While this might be read as implying they are the same character, they're otherwise very different (Lazorbeak is battle-hungry, whereas Laserbeak is a coward), and all Lazorbeak's fictional appearances have depicted him as a separate 'bot.
• Hydra and Lazorbeak being nearly identical unfortunately led to Hydra being miscolored as Lazorbeak onthe coverto theBeast Wars: Uprisingprose story "Intersectionality".

Foreign names

• Japanese:Lazorbeak(レーザービークRēzābīku)
• French:Lazair(Canada)
• Italian:Rapax^[2]
• Spanish:Picador(America, "Stabber" )

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