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This is Coyote member Beezwax. A beekeeper from Arizona, the man now known as Beezwax was driven completely insane when his entire stock of docile honey bees became mutated into giant glowing killer bees from radioactive fall out from a nearby government nuclear test gone wrong. Losing the ability to produce honey, Beezwax's business and life were ruined.

Blaming the US Government for his troubles, Beezwax packed his killer bees into his 1970 Stag Pickup Camper and joined the Coyotes to get revenge on those he feels wronged him.

I always loved this character and the Vigilante 8 games themselves. How can you not love a bitter and insane old man that just has to scream "SWARM!" to sic a cloud of glowing gamma irradiated bees on enemies and have them actually sting a vehicle to the point of having it lift off the ground and actually blow it up if it's damaged enough?

I used a 1970 Dodge Ram pickup as the model for Beezwax's vehicle since all the vehicles in the game itself are parody names of actual American cars and trucks from the late 1960s and early 1970s. Instead of something being a Mustang, it's a Palomino and instead of a Ram it's called a Stag.

Vigilante 8 and all characters copyright Activision

Dodge Ram copyright Dodge Motorcompany

If you don't know what Vigilante 8 is, keep reading:

In the 1970s the world was suffering from a world wide oil shortage. The USA was heavily dependant on affordable gasoline and was on the verge of an economic breakdown. Strikes, riots and crime were running rampant and all available law enforcement were brought into metropolitan areas which left the outlands unprotected.

The Oil Monopoly Alliance Regime (OMAR), a foreign multinational oil consortium had it's sights set on monopolizing the worlds oil trade and it's biggest opponent was the USA which opposed OMAR's price fixing schemes.

Bent on forcing the USA to it's knees OMAR hired terrorist Sid Burn to go to the US and commit acts of mass destruction and chaos designed to send the country's economy over the edge. Sid immediately traveled the American Southwest and formed a gang called the Coyotes and began targeting American oil refineries, alternate energy sources and terrorized and robbed small towns and settlements along the way.

With nobody to turn to for help, a ragtag group of citizens victimized by the Coyotes led by the trucker known as Convoy banded together as The Vigilantes, who quickly became a major thorn in the Coyote's collective side.

Desperate to get an edge on his enemies and looking for a way to cause more destruction, Sid Burn heard the rumors of advanced weapons based on UFO technology housed at the mysterious government installation called Site-4 located somewhere near Papoose Lake, Nevada.

Ambushing Site-4 Sid's robbery went bad when the Vigilante's unexpectedly showed up and as a result the world's most advanced weaponry found it's way into the hands of both parties.

With their normal vehicles modified into rolling engines of destruction the Coyotes and Vigilantes now wage a war across the American Southwest with the fate of the USA hanging in the balance.

Description

This is Coyote member Beezwax. A beekeeper from Arizona, the man now known as Beezwax was driven completely insane when his entire stock of docile honey bees became mutated into giant glowing killer bees from radioactive fall out from a nearby government nuclear test gone wrong. Losing the ability to produce honey, Beezwax's business and life were ruined.

Blaming the US Government for his troubles, Beezwax packed his killer bees into his 1970 Stag Pickup Camper and joined the Coyotes to get revenge on those he feels wronged him.

I always loved this character and the Vigilante 8 games themselves. How can you not love a bitter and insane old man that just has to scream "SWARM!" to sic a cloud of glowing gamma irradiated bees on enemies and have them actually sting a vehicle to the point of having it lift off the ground and actually blow it up if it's damaged enough?

I used a 1970 Dodge Ram pickup as the model for Beezwax's vehicle since all the vehicles in the game itself are parody names of actual American cars and trucks from the late 1960s and early 1970s. Instead of something being a Mustang, it's a Palomino and instead of a Ram it's called a Stag.

Vigilante 8 and all characters copyright Activision

Dodge Ram copyright Dodge Motorcompany

If you don't know what Vigilante 8 is, keep reading:

In the 1970s the world was suffering from a world wide oil shortage. The USA was heavily dependant on affordable gasoline and was on the verge of an economic breakdown. Strikes, riots and crime were running rampant and all available law enforcement were brought into metropolitan areas which left the outlands unprotected.

The Oil Monopoly Alliance Regime (OMAR), a foreign multinational oil consortium had it's sights set on monopolizing the worlds oil trade and it's biggest opponent was the USA which opposed OMAR's price fixing schemes.

Bent on forcing the USA to it's knees OMAR hired terrorist Sid Burn to go to the US and commit acts of mass destruction and chaos designed to send the country's economy over the edge. Sid immediately traveled the American Southwest and formed a gang called the Coyotes and began targeting American oil refineries, alternate energy sources and terrorized and robbed small towns and settlements along the way.

With nobody to turn to for help, a ragtag group of citizens victimized by the Coyotes led by the trucker known as Convoy banded together as The Vigilantes, who quickly became a major thorn in the Coyote's collective side.

Desperate to get an edge on his enemies and looking for a way to cause more destruction, Sid Burn heard the rumors of advanced weapons based on UFO technology housed at the mysterious government installation called Site-4 located somewhere near Papoose Lake, Nevada.

Ambushing Site-4 Sid's robbery went bad when the Vigilante's unexpectedly showed up and as a result the world's most advanced weaponry found it's way into the hands of both parties.

With their normal vehicles modified into rolling engines of destruction the Coyotes and Vigilantes now wage a war across the American Southwest with the fate of the USA hanging in the balance.