Beachcomber
Beachcomber was one of the new mini vehicles. I always thought he was a dune buggy, but nope. Turns out he transforms into a 1982 M1040 Chenowth "Hellfire" Fast Attack Vehicle. Who knew?
There was only the one toy during Generation 1, although there were a few variants here and there. A pretty neat little thing, these new mini vehicles were overall a step up from the first series I think, as the molds were more accurate.
His file card was neat and pretty close to his characterization on the show. Beachcomber is a geologist by trade. He has zero interest is warfare and tries to avoid conflict. We've seen some transformers who weren't totally onboard with the whole war thing, so that's interesting to see it continue.
He first showed up in issue 17, although from a continuity standpoint he first showed up in issue 47 (despite this causing some issues with the history). Sadly his role here is a bit different than the cartoon. He's seen in Grimlock's camp and even help builds the torture harness for Blaster. He mostly stays in the sidelines when he isn't whining about violence. He made it to issue 50 before he got mauled and was last seen on a slab, so disappointing.
The cartoon was better for him at least. Voiced by Alan Oppenheimer, he started out pretty much as a background guy but he did at least one episode to himself. Pity that was pretty much it and he went back to background guy for the rest of the series.
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