Its Robo Machine release changed some of the stickers, and in turn this altered version was released as Psycho in GoBots. This vehicle mode is based on the Psychoroid, a car driven briefly in the anime Space Adventure Cobra. The red roof version was released in GoBots, and the black roof version in Robo Machine. The initial Japanese toy had two releases: one in entirely bright red, and one with darker red and a black roof. This toy was not released under Robo Machines. It was initially released as Throttle, though the GoBots version was blue and the Robo Machine version was silver. This was a later figure designed by Bandai for Western release. Beetle was initially released as Volks Wagen under Robo Machine before famously becoming Bug Bite under GoBots.
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In 1993 came a revival toyline named Robo Machine s, which among other things featured sixteen of the 600 Series molds and six of what were now christened De Luxe Robo Machines. The DX Scalerobo were imported to Europe by Bandai as the Robo Machine DX assortment, and then under Challenge of the GoBots they became the Super GoBot line. The initial toys in this line put a larger emphasis on the vehicle form, with toys based on the Nissan Fairlady and the Volkswagen Beetle featuring ungainly robot modes. In 1983, in addition to Popy’s 600 Series of Machine Robo (the smaller, $3 figures) came a series of figures known as the DX Scalerobo. Previously on It Came from the Back of the Toybox: Robo Machine, Part One, where we learned how Bandai’s Machine Robo toys were imported to a European market and Robo Machine, Part 2, where we took a look at how the line became Challenge of the GoBots - a Robo Machine Product. Transformers Bandai Gobot jet plane Takara Japan vtg toy action figure. This may also be why no other Takatoku-designed toys appeared in the series, although their relatively smaller sizes as compared to Jetfire may have been a factor in Hasbro not including them.Welcome back to It Came from the Back of the Toybox, a segment where I take a look at the unknown, underrated, and unheard-of convertible robots in my collection! Vintage 1980s Super Robot Red Fighter Bandai Tokyo Japan Toy box 7251 complete. It may have been that Takara always had plans to air the Transformer animated series in their own market (as it featured a majority of their products), and objected to the inclusion of a competitor's product on the show. However, even though Hasbro had the rights to release Takatoku's Super Valkyrie in the US Transformerstoyline, Hasbro's chief collaborator on Transformers was still Takara. As a larger toy, it would follow that Hasbro would want to sell Jetfire by including him in the Transformers animated series.It might explain why we didn't get Hasbro/Takara redesigned Gobot figures maybe Takara Tomy doesn't want to redesign Gobot figures as they are based on designs from a competitor line: Here is an explanation from regarding the Jetfire controversy in the G1 cartoon. The character is different enough to be sold without Harmony Gold going after Hasbro, yet people know that it is suppose to be Jetfire. I think a great example to this is the non-Gi Joe Jetfire Transformers toys. They might be able to make a bike robot that looks similar in color scheme with Cy-Kill to the point people can identify the figure as the Gobots villain, but with a design not completely the same as Bike Robo, which would result in people not mistaking as the Machine Robo character. I am not very familiar with copyright laws, but I am sure Hasbro can't make a Cy-Kill figure that just looks like Cy-kill as the design of the figure belongs to Bandai.
Well hey if thy own those rights why not make them themselves?