071 Eddie

Eddie is another punk.

His occupation is as a "preschool teacher" and his hobby is "playing connect the dots." 

His G1 figure was a pretty generic dude with spiked hair.  There are three versions of this figure. 

Eddie is unusual because he has two G2 figures.  The first is basically the G1 mold, now with static arms.  This figure was exclusive to one of the RC boards. 

His second G2 figure gave him a brand new design.  He now has stylishly spiked hair, a pinstriped suit, a spiked bracelet, a skull ring, and a pierced tongue.  This figure has static arms and he is definitely giving the "two-fingered salute" which is the UK equivalent of the US "one-finger salute."  (You know, that middle-finger gesture of defiance and contempt.)

Stylistically, this figure seems like the "evolution" of Reginald.  In fact, I think it should have been released as Reginald's G2 figure instead of Eddie's.  First of all, it just looks more like him.  Reginald is the punk with the high-spiked hair.  Second, the "two finger salute" shows that he is British, just as Reginald's G1 figure had "Oi!" written on his shirt.  Seems like a logical update. Third, Eddie already had a freakin' G2 figure!

Anyway, regardless, Eddie's G3 figure is the same as this G2 figure -- now with bendable arms and without the rude gesture. There are many versions of this figure since it was part of the first Zoods Crew, which had so many variants.  One variant has blue skin and silver hair.  Weird.

The final variant (G4 Street Crew) gives a definite nod toward DC Comic's Joker as he has green hair and a purple accented suit.  (Interestingly, Simon already had a Joker variant.)

Eddie's zood is a wild pig.  Perhaps you could call it a warthog or a razorback.  His name is Butch.

Although I can't think of any particular reason why the dude was named Eddie back in 2001, I can think of one possible reason they named his zood Butch in 2005.  Eddie Munster, the werewolf child from the popular 1960s show The Munsters was played by actor Butch Patrick.

Does this have any relationship to TDD?  Who knows.  I don't even know why they gave Eddie a razorback as a pet.  But I do know they probably didn't want to name him "Tusk," as that is the name of the razorback mascot for the University of Arkansas.

I should also mention that the name Eddie was reused as the name of the griffin zood of Theodore. This is the only time that Tech Deck gave a zood the same name as an existing dude.  Doh!