Heinrad

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Heinrad (sometimes spelt Heinlad) is a toy from the Japanese Transformers series - Beast Wars Neo, released in 1999 by Takara. 8 inches in height; the most notable feature is the fully-working analog alarm clock in its belly. Because of this, he is considered one of the wackiest, if more collectable, Transformers toys made. He comes complete with a wine jug and winer's journal that combine into a missile launcher, his weapon when in robot mode.

Heinrad usually acts dazed and vague. He has a clock in his stomach, which gives him the ability to manipulate time. His super secret skill is being able to stop or stretch time for a limited duration, there's a flaw in this ability: he still can't control it at will. Heinrad's past and combat abilities are surrounded in mystery. This is also proved on his tech spec statistics as the only thing stated is that he has a rank of 7 - everything else is unknown.

His beast mode is also unique, being based upon the mythical tanuki animal. The most notable feature of said animal was amazingly large testes, which the tanuki used as both seat and as drums, a trait parodied on the toy as two round objects right underneath his clock belly that became hip pads in robot mode, one of which containing his spark crystal.

He (or rather, his toy) makes a cameo in the first episode of Transformers: Robots in Disguise. His voice actor is Yōji Ietomi.