Tasmania Kid


 * Tasmania Kid is a Maximal from the Beast Wars II portion of the Beast Era.

Tasmania Kid is the youngest of Leo Prime's crew, and the most luckless. He wants nothing more than to be recognized as a full-fledged Maximal warrior, but his youthful exuberance and tendancy to leap before he looks keep getting in the way. He loves to run through the wilds, and often goes out against commander Lio Convoy's orders.

Beast Wars II cartoon
Voice actor: Katashi Ishizuka

One time he went pee-pee on a forest fire to put it out.

Beast Wars II/Neo manga
When Leo Prime wrecks Apache's room in a drunken rampage, Apache scolds Kid, who decides to Run away. Kid is attacked and captured by the Cyborg Beasts who plan to make him one of them. This plan fails when Apache single handedly annihilates the Predacon forces Rambo-style.

In the follow-up Beast Wars Neo manga, Tasmania Kid was the founder of the planet of rabbit-formers Stampy hails from.

Beast Wars II

 * Tasmania Kid (Basic, 1998)
 * Japanese ID number: C-14


 * Tasmania Kid's only toy is virtually identical to the Hasbro Beast Wars toy Snarl, transforming into an (alleged) Tasmanian devil. By holding the toy by its tail in beast mode and pulling the trigger, his body leaps forward in a spring-loaded lunging attack. A blue and yellow version of the toy was awarded as a speical prize along with many other oddly-colored Beast Wars II Maximals in a magazine contest in Japan; a design contest that resulted in the creation of Star Upper.


 * Tasmania Kid was available both as an individual, and in a two-pack with the Predacon Dirge.


 * The same mold is used by Bound Rogue, whose coloration bears a striking resemblance to the contest-prize version of Tasmania Kid.