Zoids

Zoids (ゾイド Zoido) is a Tomy toyline featuring giant bestial robots.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

In 2016 when Grimlock rampaged through Amarillo, local human Brandon was quick enough to film it on his smartphone and upload it to the Internet under the title "OMG> ZOIDS R BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again!

Ask Vector Prime

Multiversal observer Vector Prime was puzzled by an observed overlap between the beasts of Cymond 999.04 Alpha and the Malgus Cluster. Ask Vector Prime, 15 June 2015

Toys

Synergenex

• Shield-D-Prime (シールドディープライム, 2025)

• Release date: 2025
• Accessories: drone, bike

Announced as the flagship release in TakaraTomy's Collaborative-adjacent licensed crossover line Synergenex, "Shield-D-Prime" combines T-SPARK's three pillar brands of Transformers, Zoids, and Diaclone. This exotic variant of Optimus Prime turns into a 1/60 scale iteration of Zoids mascot Shield Liger and includes a working cockpit for the included Diaclone "dianaut" pilot. Accessories include a removable flying drone type thing formed from Optimus's back and tail and an adorable teeny tiny motorcycle for the dianaut.

This item is currently scheduled for release, but is not yet available at mass retail.

Notes

• Zoids began in 1982 and has continued after Tomy's 2006 merger with Takara. At the time of the above IDW comic story, Zoids was indeed in a dormant period, with Zoids: Wild not premiering until 2018.
• The Animated Decepticon Megadeath is described as transforming into a "Guylos EX-038 Assault Craft" from the first Zoids anime.
• Legacy toyline personnel Ben MacCrae and Mark Maher lampshaded the heavy Zoids influence that went into the beast mode of Legacy: United Thundertron by offering that the pirate had crash landed on the Zoid homeworld of Planet Zi and scanned one of the franchise's trademark ligers.^[1]

See also

• Starriors

References

External links

• Zoids at Wikipedia