Dinobot Totally Explained

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Dinobot is a fictional character from the Beast Wars Transformers universe.

Beast Wars

He originally debuts in the series' premiere as subordinate of Megatron, leader of the villainous Predacons. However, Dinobot challenges Megatron's leadership, and is shortly expelled from his crew. He eventually joins the ranks of Optimus Primal and the Maximals. He fights alongside with the Maximals before ultimately sacrificing himself to save a group of primates from a Predacon onslaught. In the following season, Megatron reanimates Dinobot with transmetal technology, and recruits him to rejoin the Predacons. Outside of the television series, Dinobot's likeness was used to create several toys.

Animated series

Dinobot originally arrives on prehistoric Earth with Megatron and the rest of the Predacons aboard the Darkside. He believes that Megatron has led the Predacons to the wrong planet, and attempts to usurp him in a duel. The engagement is interrupted by a surprise attack from the Predacons. Optimus saves Dinbots life during the attack, prompting the two to come to terms. He infiltrates the Predacon base, and steals two golden discs which contain information pertaining to the planet’s vast supply of Energon, as well as the location of the Nemesis, the ancient Decepticon flagship. Dinobot eventually contemplates rejoining the Predacons after realizing the Megatron was going to triumph over the Maximals. After Megatron also realizes this, he orders the Predacons to eradicate all the primitive ancestors of humankind, on the planet, believing the attack would deny the Autobots an important ally in their future battle against the Decepticons.
In the third season, Megatron manages to resurrect Dinobot using the Transmetal Driver and half of Rampage’s spark. In his new form, Dinobot is portrayed as Megatron’s mindless servant, albeit for a few instances where he shows traits of his former self. He is seemingly restored to his former self after Depthcharge destroys Rampage. Dinobot, who is now piloting the Nemesis, assists the Maximals by revealing the location of a shuttle within their proximity. Later, he refuses to open fire on the defenseless Maximals, prompting Megatron to expel him from his ranks again. The remaining Maximals use the shuttle to breach the Nemesis’ cockpit. Optimus pleads Dinobot to escape with them, but he refuses. Dinobot bids farewell Optimus, and is shortly engulfed in an explosion.

Dreamwave Productions

Dinobot's earliest fictional depiction in comics was in a two part short story told in Dreamwave's Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye series. In this tale Dinobot and his leader enter an ancient Autobot library housing a node of the super computer Vector Sigma where they view the datatracks concerning the Autobots and Decepticons of The Great War. As Dinobot dispatches a Maximal security agent his leader obtains the Golden Disk artifact and announces he wishes to be addressed as Megatron from now on.

Transformers: Timelines

Dinobot's early story would continue in the Timelines tale Dawn of Futures Past, where he was seen escaping with the disc alongside Megatron and Scorponok, outraged because he wasn't able to battle the Maximals honorably, having to be cowed into fleeing by Megatron. Dinobot was further outraged when Megatron planned to flee into Transwarp, but was delighted when Megatron opened fire on the Axalon while doing so. In this story, Dinobot was never named.

IDW Comics

Dinobot appears along the rest of the maximals in the series Beast Wars: The Gathering.

Toys

Beast Wars Dinobot (1996) ť The Dinobot toy came with a mutant mask that wasn't utilized in the animated series, although it was seen on early prototypes of the animation. Because the toy was made before the show, it wasn't an exact match for the colors.

This toy was later recolored as Beast Wars Grimlock and as Dinobots Grimlock. ť Dinotron was a remold of the original Dinobot.

Takara Dinobot (1997) ť When the toy was sold in Japan it was repainted with lighter stripes and a gold head to match the television model. In Japan Dinobot was sold alone and packaged with Tarantulas. The Japanese version of this toy had the head painted with metallic colors to more closely match the animated appearance of Dinobot.

McDonalds Dinobot (1998) ť A premium toy included with Happy Meals, this Dinobot is a transmetal, although he didn't become a transmetal in the animated series.

Fox Kids Dinobot (1999) ť A redeco of Dinobot done in browns with red stripes across the back.

Transmetal II Dinobot (1999) ť The Transmetal II toy of Dinobot came in three variants. The first was released as a post-Christmas edition in late 1998 (for the 1999 release year) in show-accurate colors (this version being the model for the series), identifiable due to all pre-1999 Transmetal 2s having a "Transmetal II" logo. The second version makes use of navy blue and metallic maroon detailing on an ivory-colored body, as opposed to brown and maroon. The "II" logos are replaced with a "Transmetal 2" logo. The third and final Transmetal II Dinobot was nearly as commonplace as the second, with the ivory tooling replace with a whiter colored plastic. The remaining parts were decorated in a brighter blue and vacuum-metallized red. (The white, red and blue Dinobot is said to have been exclusive to Wal-Mart, but K-Mart stores in 2002 were shown to also have them in stock.)

The transmetal II Dinobot was repainted into the Dinobot Rapticon.

Hasbro 10th Anniversary Dinobot (2006) ť In 2006 the original Dinobot toy was one of the toys selected for the Beast Wars 10th Anniversary toyline. He was repainted in more show-accurate coloring. He came packaged with one of the six pieces used to make the Transmutate toy plus a DVD of his most famous episode "Code of Hero".

Darksyde Dinobot (2006) ť One of the BotCon 2006 exclusive figure is a remold of Armada Hoist which is a homage to Beast Wars Dinobot. This figure is supposed to represent Dinobot before he was reformatted into an animal form. He turns into a backhoe. In an earlier Botcon music video (done to the song Du Hast by Rammstein), it's revealed that Dinobot's pre-Beast Wars name was Dynamo, although his pre-Beast Wars rendering in the video didn't look like the Botcon 2006 figure. This is a contradiction to the Dreamwave comics story where he was called while on Cybertron.

This toy was featured on page 19 of the book Transformers: The Fantasy, The Fun, The Future by Erin Brereton published by Triumph Books.

Takara 10th Anniversary Dinobot (2007) ť In 2007, Takara Tomy is releasing their version of the 10th Anniversary of Beast Wars toys. Selected molds have included Dinobot who will be painted show accurate along with something Hasbro's version didn't have: teeth are painted to give him more of a look like the show. According to the DVD enclosed with the toy, he may be sold with Blackarachnia at a sale price. (Like how Optimus Primal is sold with Megatron as a special offer.)

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