Metalfencer, an example of mechanical Bakugan Trap that has dot patterns in both Trap and Bakugan form
Mechanical Bakugan (Japanese Version: Mecha Bakugan (メカ爆丸, Meka Bakugan?)) are Bakugan that were created artificially in labs by the Vexos, namely Professor Clay.
History
These Bakugan have a mechanical appearance and resemble mechanized animals. After their creation and their prototype, the first Mechanical Bakugan, Ventus Altair had its bugs worked out, Mechanical Bakugan became commonplace in the Vexos with several of the brawlers having Mechanical Guardian Bakugan and the majority of them having Mechanical Bakugan Trap's.
Early Mechanical Bakugan tend to spin like a top when they are thrown unlike normal Bakugan which roll like a ball when being thrown. These Mechanical Bakugan have spinning rings inside their body in their Bakugan form; Examples include Altair, Hades and Cyborg Helios.
Despite of their powers, they have many limits and weaknesses as they were called useless and junks by Mylene Farrow on Hades and Baron Leltoy and Shun Kazami on Altair.
All Mechanical Bakugan cannot talk (with some only being voiced by Vestal AI programmed to them) while half-mechanical ones like Cyborg Helios can. The new and improved Mechanical Bakugan such as Aluze, MAC Spider, Macubass and Dryoid lack supporting mechanical Bakugan Traps as well as spinning chest pieces compared to their earlier counterparts. However, the only new Mechanical Bakugan that has a supportive device is Farbros. The Assail System and Farbros can also combine.
Mechanical Bakugan often have dots patterns in their ball or Trap form. Sometimes the dots pattern is also shown in Bakugan form. Some of them have diamond patterns in their ball form such as Altair. Most of the Mechanical Bakugan have a silvery body in their ball form except Farbros and Dryoid. No Mechanical Bakugan Traps have silvery bodies like that of a normal Mechanical Bakugan.
With the death of Professor Clay, Mechanical Bakugan can no longer be made.
List of Mechanical Bakugan
Bakugan Battle Brawlers: New Vestroia
Generic Bakugans
- Altair (Lync's first Guardian Bakugan) (Destroyed in episode 11)
- Aluze (Lync's second Guardian Bakugan) (Destroyed in episode 47)
- Boriates (Volt's second Guardian Bakugan) (Presumably destroyed, banished by a Death Bomb to the end of dimension, possibly destroyed)
- Cyborg Helios* (Spectra's upgraded Guardian Bakugan which later upgraded to Helios MK2) (Half-Mechanical)
- Dryoid (Prince Hydron's Guardian Bakugan) (Destroyed in episode 52)
- Farbros (King Zenoheld's Guardian Bakugan) (Destroyed in episode 52)
- Hades (Shadow Prove's first Guardian Bakugan, which was disguised as Alpha Hydranoid) (Destroyed in episode 32)
- Helios MK2 (Evolved from Cyborg Helios) (Half-Mechanical)
- Infinity Helios (Evolved from Helios MK2) (Part Mechanical)
- MAC Spider (Shadow Prove's second Guardian Bakugan after Hades was destroyed) (Destroyed in episode 48)
- Macubass (Mylene's second Guardian Bakugan) (Destroyed in episode 48)
- Wired (Lync's secondary Bakugan) (Thought to be a Bakugan Trap in the anime, possibly destroyed along with Altair in episode 11)
Bakutraps
Maxus Dragonoid
- Brachium**
- Dark Hound**
- Grafias**
- Grakas Hound**
- Spitarm**
- Spyderfencer**
Maxus Helios
Others
- Dynamo (Volt's first Bakugan Trap, presumably destroyed, as it was most likely in Volt's possession when he was banished.)
- Fortress (Shadow Prove's Bakugan Trap, presumably destroyed, as it was most likely in Shadow's possession when he was banished.) (Hundreds of Pyrus clones of Fortress appeared in All for One and Final Fury, all destroyed by the Resistance.)
- Hexstar (Volt's second Bakugan Trap, presumably destroyed, as it was most likely in Volt's possession when he was banished.)
- Metalfencer (Spectra Phantom's Bakugan Trap)
Bakugan: The Graphic Novel
Game Only
- Myriad Hades
Trivia
- Most Mechanical Bakugan are animated using CGI instead of the traditional cel animation, the exceptions being Metalfencer, Maxus Dragonoid Bakugan Traps, Dynamo in its initial appearance, Cyborg Helios and Helios MK2, the latter two not being fully mechanical.
- This is mostly because all these mechanical Bakugan were meant to unite with flesh and blood Bakugan. Additionally, after Dynamo was used with Boreates by Volt, he was animated in CGI like most mechanical Bakugan.
- While not outright said, it is implied all Bakugan Traps are artificially made by the Vexos and are possibly mechanical: given their inability to talk, some possessing inorganic transformation abilities, exploding instead of dissipating into elemental particles when they die, or being left smoking after their return to ball form. That said, this page will only list Traps (and other Bakugan) explicitly confirmed to be mechanical in game, anime or manga materials.
- In Bakugan: Defenders of the Core, Traps become mass produced by the Vexos to use them as strike forces against Earth, including seemingly organic looking ones, further adding to this theory.
- The only possible exception is Tripod Epsilon, who does not display any inorganic features and does communicate in croaks in the New Vestroia anime. However, its anime design is radically different from the art of its full form in game materials (which does look inorganic) so it could be dissonance between the game and anime art teams.
- It is also possible Mechanical Bakugan can look falsely organic, as the game design for Foxbat's full form looks organic, unlike other Mechanical Bakugan and its own anime depiction.
- Mecha Chamelia is the first and only Earth-made Mechanical Bakugan to be introduced.
- Most of the main Mechanical Bakugan were created by the Vestals but ironically, most of them were destroyed by Vestal characters as well (except for Hades who was killed by Alice and Alpha Hydranoid).
- Near the end of New Vestroia, Dryoid and Farbros seemed to gain some semblance of "personality" and became a bit more sentient.
- None of the Mechanical Bakugan's in the second arc have got a toy release at all except Hexstar.
- Because Hextar only appeared once in the second arc of New Vestroia, when all Traps were referred to by their original Japanese names, he is mostly known as Carlvelt.
- The Mechanical Bakugan term in the anime is only used for Bakugan artificially created by the Vexos, so despite being robotic Bakugan, Robotallion and Laserman are not considered Mechanical Bakugan. The same could be said for later Bakugan like Aranaut, Splight, Jaakor, Reptak and Tremblar. Mechtogan, while also animated in CGI and looking like machines, are not considered Mechanical Bakugan (or even mechanical lifeforms) as they are said to be the personification of Bakugan powers as opposed to being artificially created beings.