Gup-D | |
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Name: | Gup-D |
Color: | Yellow |
Best feature: | Repairing |
Size: | Small |
Shape: | Manta Ray/Fiddler Crab |
Best driver: | Tweak |
The Gup-D is a small, multipurpose electric Gup with retractable arms and legs. With its legs and arms out it looks like a crab, but with its legs and arms in it looks like a manta ray.
Features[]
- Retractable claw arms.
- Retractable legs.
- Strong metal claws.
- Drills.
- Carrot shooter.
- Headlights.
- Extra emergency toolkit
- It’s a fully electric Gup. It just uses a battery and an electric motor for propulsion.
- A single seat.
- Snow plow [books exclusive].
Drivers[]
- Tweak
- Shellington (sometimes; mostly crashes the Gup)
- Peso (The Triggerfish and The Manatees)
- Captain Barnacles (only crashed it in The Vampire Squid)
- Dashi (sometimes)
- Barrot (A Very Vegimal Christmas)
- Ryla (The Great Pacific Clean-Up)
- Bud (The Great Pacific Clean-Up, and The Mysterious Webs)
Trivia[]
- In The Jellyfish Bloom, Captain Barnacles uses the Gup-D with garden eel-based tech to tunnel through a rocky cliff to save Shellington, Peso, and Kwazii when Kwazii's tail gets caught by a jellyfish's tentacles.
- Shellington has crashed the Gup-D three times, once in The Remipedes, once in The Hammerhead Sharks, and once in Operation Cooperation.
- Captain Barnacles crashed it in The Vampire Squid when he got slimed after accidentally spooking the squid.
- In The Fiddler Crabs, the Gup is mistaken for a giant crab that wants to attack the crabs' beach and is taken over by the fiddler crab leader.
- In The Hammerhead Sharks, the Gup is mistaken for a stingray and the Shark Pup Siblings try to eat it.
- In The Spinner Dolphins, it is revealed that the crab's legs can make the gup walk underwater as well as on land.
- So far its only appearance in Above and Beyond is The Skeleton Coast Adventure. When Tweak use's it to repair The Octopod.
- Along with the Gup-A their designs in the books had little to no change.
- This is the first hybrid Gup. All the others are just only one animal.