Toybox & Games Room

1984-5
(Wave 2 January-June 1985)
‘Fight! Super Robot Lifeform’
(Wave 1 reissued with Rub-Signs - except short release variants - Japanese store shelves stock Transformers for the first time)
Car-Robots (Diaclone Recolours/Remoulds)
(1:32 Scale Vehicles)
Grapple - C-47 Architect
#1 Yellow/Orange & Black Mitsubishi Fuso Crane Truck (Yellow Eyes)
#2 (Red Eyes, extra Helmet details & Footpads, Black & White Crane Base Stripe [...]

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The Popular Toy Series ‘Transformers’ fist hit the toy shelves in 1984, no-one seems to be able to confirm exactly which month, or which Country or which if any lines came out first, but at that time Hasbro US was in the habit of releasing new toy lines each quarter and it is generally agreed [...]

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Autobot – Smokescreen
(Decoy); Mini-Con/Micro Scale
1986-7
(Sold packaged with Carded Transformers eg. Combiner Limbs/Mini-Bots/etc.)
Robot (Rubber)/No Alternate Mode (Nissan-Datsun Fairlady Z Turbo Racing Car (1979)/Robot - Red; #8 Moulded into back
#1 Cybertron Hero Collection - Senshin 22 Gift Set (Japanese Release Packed with Convoy - Optimus Prime -, Swoop, Ratchet, Ironhide, Sunstreaker, Skids, Grapple, Meister - Jazz -, [...]

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Autobot – Smokescreen
(Hunter Carbot); Warrior/Deluxe Scale
1985
Nissan-Datsun Fairlady Z Turbo Racing Car (1979)/Robot - Electramotive Team (Chrome Silver Gun & Missiles)
Écran de Fumé (French Canadian Name/Mexican Release)
Nissan-Datsun Fairlady Z Turbo Racing Car (1979) (no Bumbper or Spoiler)/Robot - Electramotive Team (Black Gun & Missiles)
TF-45 Cybertron (Japanese Release)
Nissan-Datsun Fairlady Z Turbo Racing Car (1979)/Robot - Electramotive Team [...]

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