Beetleworx

An example of a scrapped Tanker

Beetleworx are enemies created by The Mad Doctor for Oswald. They were later used by the Phantom Blot as soldiers. They are made from discarded animatronic bits, such as the plasma guns from Lilo and Stitch, and are part painted and part inert. Beetleworx can be found anywhere, and are described as evil. The main purpose of a Beetleworx is to help repair the Wasteland, and will attack anything in their way. Destroying them can cause Mickey's Karma Gauge to fill with green, if one chooses the "Anti-Hero" route .Because Mickey stole his fame and popularity, Oswald was given types of Beetleworx made by the Mad Doctor that looked like Mickey's friends, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck,and Goofy, to make him feel better. These are shown to be very friendly towards Mickey, being completely harmless. They have personalities very similar to Mickey's real friends. They are found in pieces scattered through the Wasteland, and can either be repaired, in which case they become allies, or sold for scrap.

Tankers are the strongest form of Beetleworx. They have heads of different Disney characters, bodies of different vehicles and objects, cannons for arms, and spider legs. Tankers can shoot paint from their right cannon and thinner from their left. The first Tanker, one that resides in Tomorrow City, has the helmet of the alien troopers from Lilo & Stitch, and a golden lightcycle, from Tron, for a body. The second Tanker, one seen during the fight with the Mad Doctor, has the head of the Hag from Snow White/Enchanted and the poison apple for a body. The picture above shows a scrapped variety seen only in preliminary screenshots.

Hoppers are the common variety of Beetleworx, and as their name implies, they hop around the levels on patrol for everyone's favorite mouse. Most of these Beetleworx are modeled after various birds, such as the vultures from The Jungle Book, which can be found in Ventureland and Lonesome Manor, and Scuttle from The Little Mermaid, the latter variety being found on Mickeyjunk Mountain.

A third variety, called Spinners, resemble spiders and tea cups, and are equipped with buzzsaws. One variety seems to be modeled after a skeleton from the "Skeleton Dance" short film.

The last variety, Bashers, are cybernetic conversions of different characters. Some of Captain Hook's Crew have been converted into Bashers in Ventureland (and all Bashers use their fighting style) as well as Maximillian from The Black Hole in Tomorrow City. In the Lonesome Manor skeletons have also been converted into Bashers.

A scrapped variety, the name of which is unknown, has the head of Jiminy Cricket, the legs of Dumbo, a mechanical arm reminiscent to the one on the mechanical arm in Dark Beauty Castle, and Mickey's trailer for a body.

Trivia

• Originally, many of the Beetleworx had a much more steampunk look to them, and came in many other varieties. They include but are not limited to: a Splatter that has been merged with various mechanical parts which include a fire extinguisher and the head of a ghoul from the Haunted Mansion as one of its shoulders, a Country Bear-headed scorpion robot, a giant Dumbo-faced transport vehicle, a giant fusion of Jafar, Goofy, Donald Duck, the Peter Pan Crocodile, Tigger, Jose Carioca, and one other character that Warren Spector or other Junction Point employees have not revealed yet.
• (SPOILERS) The Mad Docter is revealed later in the game to be a Beetleworx; to be precise, their leader.
• You can use TV sketches in order to stall large Beetleworx. It will zap them after they attack it and give you a few extra seconds to heal or launch some more thinner to destory them.

External Links

• Beetleworx on Disney Wiki

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