Thunder Guardian

**Thunder Guardian** is the combined form of Argentavis, Mammoth, and Giant Elk. It is a tough brute of a combiner that can fly at high speeds, crush enemies with ease, and do all of that with the ferocity of a raging beast!

...oh, and it makes all of two appearances. In a show with 104 episodes.

## Toys

* **Metalions Thunder Guardian/메탈리온 썬더가디언** (2019)

A partial recolor of Mega Beast Thunder Guardian. Any and all blue eyes were changed to yellow, some white or gray parts were recolored gunmetal or a darker gray, and the numbers and Mega Beast symbols are not colored in so they don't stand out, though you can still see some of them since it's still the same mold. The soundbox has been removed.

* **Metalions Auto Changer Thunder Guardian/메탈리온 오토체인저 썬더가디언** (2019)

An auto-transforming toy specifically for this series. Much of the visual quality had to be sacrificed to make Thunder Guardian auto-transformable, and partsforming still occurs since there was pretty much no way to work around the weapons working the way they do.

## Differences from Biklonz

Visually, aside from the changes in eye color, Thunder Guardian is virtually identical to its original form in Biklonz, though some oddities can be seen. The strangest of these is the fact that each leg has a pair of the shin design present on the back. In addition, Argentavis's head doesn't fold inwards, likely to emphasize the "jetpack" portion of the mech, and the two weapons aren't stored on its back anymore.

Speaking of the weapons, despite being renamed to the "Storm Blaster", the Macuahuitl is still, well, a macuahuitl (yes, that's an actual thing), and the energy spikes are still generated, though the spikes on Mammoth's tusks are now much bigger. It is now a strictly melee weapon that cannot, or at the very least has not been shown to be able to, shoot out its spikes. And the Thunder Shield, now renamed the "Rumble Charge"... wasn't shown in the series at all. These weapons were renamed a second time in the Korean release; the Storm Blaster is now the "Guardian Hammer", and the Rumble Charge is back to being called the "Thunder Shield", though in English words instead ("썬더쉴드" compared to "천둥방패").

Thunder Guardian appears only twice in Metalions, but unlike Hurricane, its appearances were actual fight scenes, so comparisons can be made. Though Thunder Guardian was shown to be capable of flight in Biklonz, it was never really its main selling point; on the other hand, this fact is heavily emphasized in Metalions (even more than the mech whose name literally implies some sort of flight), allowing it to partake in speedy aerial battles. Since Thunder Guardian is a lot smaller in Metalions, it moves a lot faster than its Biklonz counterpart, which focuses on an iron defense and really heavy blows.

## Trivia

* Though not directly related to Metalions per say, it is humorous to note that Young Toys, in collaboration with Gmarket, handed out Biklonz Thunder Guardians (among other products) for free to anyone who pre-purchased Speed or Monster from the Tobot V series in Korea a year before releasing the Metalions versions of Cross Attacker and Thunder Guardian as "new toys".

1. ↑ Translated: *"Interpark and Gmarket are taking Tobot V pre-purchases and the bonus gifts are crazy! Thunder Guardian, Brachiocannon, Jango, etc. These aren't random, so you can pick what you want. I highly recommend anyone interested in buying to go here!"* (The linked Gmarket listing seems to have changed as the Tobot V series went on... though it's still a Biklonz product.)