The Royal Beettalion Guard are members of Queen Phoebee's royal guard who are found at the end of each chapter trapped inside a glass beehive in Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair. There are a total of 48 in the game, and each member will take a hit for Yooka and Laylee in Capital B's Impossible Lair.
Each member has a bee-based pun name.
Beettalion Members[]
Chapter 1: Capital Causeway: Buzzerland
- Capital Causeway - Chaos: Cam Beegle
Chapter 2: Factory Fright: Zingary
- Factory Fright - Flooded: Dambeeien
Chapter 3: Wild Web Woods: Buzza Khan
- Wild Web Woods - Wilder: Lilbee Ann
Chapter 4: Frantic Fountains: Apidave
- Frantic Fountains - Frozen: Waspinson
Chapter 5: Gasping Glade: Hivan Lin
- Gasping Glade - Grown: Joe the Bee
Chapter 6: Sawblade Evade: Willicomb Pugh
- Sawblade Evade - Stuck: Dayleetle
Chapter 7: Production Path: Griffinsect
- Production Path - Panic: Justing
Chapter 8: Windmill Way: Nestemeier
- Windmill Way - Windy: Duncomb
Chapter 9: Urban Uprise: Beevanson
- Urban Uprise - Updraft: Buzzymore
Chapter 10: Ropeburn Ridge: Honeysué
- Ropeburn Ridge - Rerouted: Lawrinsect
Chapter 11: Conveyor Chaos: Hive Rustle
- Conveyor Chaos - Crosswire: Debbee
Chapter 12: Buzzsaw Falls: Stingfano
- Buzzsaw Falls - Frozen: Stingcent
Chapter 13: Cliffside Quest: Chrisbee
- Cliffside Quest - Cold: Jeff Dronan
Chapter 14: Hazard Hangar: Bumblelee
- Hazard Hangar - Hung: Andbee
Chapter 15: Turbine Trouble: Combee
- Turbine Trouble - Tidal: Beeve
Chapter 16: Queasy Quay: Kirkhive
- Queasy Quay - Climb: Gavsting
Chapter 17: Boom-Bloom Blast: Danbeeil
- Boom-Bloom Blast - Breakthrough: Camerhoney
Chapter 18: Pumping Plant: Stingven Onehertzzz
- Pumping Plant - Powered: Christingpher
Chapter 19: Scareship Shootout: Bumbleson
- Scareship Shootout - Smoggy: Goatjelly
Chapter 20: Scareship Scroll: Gorebee Beetail
- Scareship Scroll - Docked: Yagbeeyan
- Overworld:
- Danciel
- Talbuzz
- D Wizzze
- Roepellent
- Humish
- Anthbea
- Wilswarm
- Flymon
Trivia[]
- Some of the names of the Beettalion members are a combination of a regular name (usually a reference), and a bee-related name.
- Playtonic hosted a community competition on June 17th, 2019 and announced the winners on July 5th, 2019. The six winners of the competition would have their name (combined with a bee pun) as a member of the Beettalion.
- Danbeeil was named after Daniel Garza, who created a 3D [animation] of Capital B using various methods to destroy a Yooka and Laylee puppet.
- Camerhoney was named after Cameron Perry, who animated Yooka, Laylee, and the Royal Beettalion Guard fighting Capital B.
- Cam Beegle was named after Cameron Reigle, who created mock-up images of a Rextro-based video game title Rextro's Impossible Tales.
- Lilbee Ann was named after Joshua Taylor's daughter - Lillyanne Claire Taylor - who wrote and drew a Yooka-Laylee storybook.
- Jeff Dronan was named after Jeff Onan, who created a Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair board game.
- Hivan Lin was named after Evan Lin, who performed a Yooka-Layleepiano medley, which includes several different Grant Kirkhope pieces from Yooka-Laylee, including Shipwreck Creek, Tribalstack Tropics - Monument, Glitterglaze Glacier, and Final Beeting.
- Hive Rustle was named after Hyle Russel, who is the co-founder of DK Vine.
- Many of the members of Playtonic Games have Beettalion members named after them. Most of these names were named after Gavin Price, the co-founder of Playtonic Games.
- Gavsting is named after Gavin Price, the co-founder, managing director, and creator director.
- Zingary is a combination of the Zingers from the DKC series, and Gary Richards, a game designer.
- Joe the Bee is named after Joseph Douthwaite, a software engineer at Playtonic. Gavin Price came up with several different names for Douthwaite, but Douthwaite kept rejecting them. Eventually, Gavin Price simply named him Joe the Bee.[1]
- Playtonic hosted a community competition on June 17th, 2019 and announced the winners on July 5th, 2019. The six winners of the competition would have their name (combined with a bee pun) as a member of the Beettalion.