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Post by Jim on Mar 14, 2014 23:46:47 GMT
This thread just serves to remind me that if I had a time machine, in spite of all the wonderful things I could do, I'd largely be checking out toy shops 2-3 decades ago.
-Jim
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Post by Jaymz on Mar 18, 2014 23:36:14 GMT
ISN'T the Mexican Hook the one with the chromed Devastator head cannon? Sort of, there was a run of the Mexican Hooks with a chromed head cannon and hand gun, but it wasn't the standard, plenty of them had normal colour weapons too. |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 17, 2015 12:03:50 GMT
From the G2 thread: tmukhub.proboards.com/post/203638/thread
The Chinese run (and it's other uses) was done c1990, possibly as late as 92 for the Mailaways Didn't the Dinobots get reissued as mailaways in Japan round about Battlestars/Operation Combination period? I know they did Superion and the Insecticons. -Nick I did not know the Dinobots were in Operation: Combination! This is a New Fact! -Ralph |
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Post by kayevcee on Jul 17, 2015 14:32:03 GMT
I don't think they were in the storylines. They were just a pack-in promotion like Reflector in the US. My grey-import early 90s Rewind and Steeljaw came with a promotional leaflet for Reflector. I was gutted to find out I was 5 years too late to send it off. And on the wrong continent.
-Nick
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 17, 2015 16:19:58 GMT
Now THAT is interesting.
The promotional leaflet would suggest yours was an Ameican grey import rather than the usual Chinese: the Chinese had no inserts/catalogues bar the instructions and stickers.
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Post by kayevcee on Jul 17, 2015 16:40:30 GMT
It was on the front of the card. I didn't take a picture of it before opening them because I was 11 and there was no internet  -Nick |
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Post by primenova on Jul 17, 2015 17:28:35 GMT
If the green Constructicons where in this set of China toys - then why did woolworths sell them for £7.50 when all the other toys where £4.99 - I think they wanted to pocket the cash.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 17, 2015 18:16:51 GMT
All what other toys?
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 17, 2015 19:50:42 GMT
I knew the Dinobots weren't in the Operation: Combination story line but to find out they were in the toy-line anyway is a new fact to me. The arse-end of Transformers in Japan prior to G2 fascinates me. It's one of the great areas of TF-dom that still remains maddeningly under-documented.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 16, 2017 21:46:35 GMT
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Post by Jaymz on Apr 17, 2017 11:23:17 GMT
Replied to that thread with some cardbacks for you. Didn't realise you were interested in them.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 17, 2017 12:24:58 GMT
Hadn't given it much thought till recently!
Was going to ask you for a pic of Hook's cardback just in case.
My memory is the vast majority of the Chinese stock is MBC imported
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Post by Bogatan on Apr 17, 2017 14:40:36 GMT
I got the full set of minibots from Woolies, though I never saw Cosmos so maybe not.
Bumblebee, Hubcap, Beachcomber and was there a fourth?
If you still need them I'll dig out the packaging.
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Post by Jaymz on Apr 17, 2017 16:11:50 GMT
I got the full set of minibots from Woolies, though I never saw Cosmos so maybe not. Bumblebee, Hubcap, Beachcomber and was there a fourth? If you still need them I'll dig out the packaging. Seaspray was the fourth. The Cosmos could've been my local Woolworths digging out old stock from somewhere, it has a different assortment number on it from the others. |
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Post by Bogatan on Apr 17, 2017 19:11:56 GMT
Of course Seapray. Should be easy to remember, only 4 minibots I owned as a kid.
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Post by The Huff on Apr 18, 2017 11:59:48 GMT
Of course Seapray. Should be easy to remember, only 4 minibots I owned as a kid. Always strange that it was the same four as the G2 Mini Autobots. there must have been a connection/reason for this. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 18, 2017 12:07:49 GMT
There's a correlation between Chinese TFs, Gold Box Classics - believed to be Chinese TFs reboxed - and G2 - which reuses many of the same moulds
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 18, 2017 12:18:14 GMT
Certainly a difference in production quality. I've got an original Dead End and a Gold Box Classic one and the difference in plastic quality is really noticeable when they're side by side.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 18, 2017 14:54:04 GMT
Better or worse?
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 18, 2017 19:06:20 GMT
Original is far better than the classic. The classic almost looks like a knock off in comparison.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 18, 2017 20:54:20 GMT
Hmmm. I have never owned a Gold box re-issue so was not aware of this.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 18, 2017 21:09:14 GMT
I have and didn't notice a problem.
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Post by blueshift on Apr 18, 2017 21:29:12 GMT
I never noticed anything off with mine!
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 18, 2017 21:37:58 GMT
You just need to look at the finer details. Mould fatigue for a start, but the classic feels cheaper.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 18, 2017 21:41:35 GMT
Does anyone currently have an original and Gold Box version of a mould to cast further light on this matter?
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 18, 2017 22:22:29 GMT
I can try and see if the differences photograph if you like. I'll have to dig the toys out the loft.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 19, 2017 10:51:29 GMT
TO THE LOFT.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 17, 2018 11:53:32 GMT
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Post by The Huff on Jun 17, 2018 13:07:09 GMT
I still have one of these Megatrons in the loft boxed amoungst others. It was an interesting time, although I've always thought that it never helped the G2 toys much.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 12, 2020 12:27:56 GMT
highendtfs.com/?q=node/15I found this by chance today and found it very interesting. And it explains the appearance of Hubcap, Bumblebee, the Cassettes and Constructicons appearing in the likes of Jolly Giant and Woolworths. The URL for the article in the first post of this thread has changed: www.highendtfs.com/90sreissuesUpdate your bookmarks. Looks like the article has had an update and spruce up too |
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