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News Credits: 6188 · Mon Nov 26, 2012 11:08 am

Hey everyone!

I would like some help in trying to remember what a toyline was called, and if anyone has encountered it in the past.

It would be mid-1990s to late 1990s, at least in Europe.

I cannot remember the name, nor the manufacturer. All I know is that they were sold as packs of cars that could combine into robots/monsters. They didn't have a robot mode, just the combination gimmick (and were pretty loose, as the linking parts were small pegs).

Any idea?

News Credits: 6 · Tue Dec 11, 2012 11:42 pm

A better description might help.
I'm assuming it wasnt power rangers related.

News Credits: 6188 · Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:28 am

Definitely not Power Rangers.

The one model I used to own had a Dodge Viper-esque sports car as the head, the bumper became the mouth, the car seats rose up behind the windscreen to form ears, and the rest just folded at a right angle a pegged into the main torso car.

I seem to remember that they had no actual feet or legs, but a unipod of sorts.
I've been looking for images all over the interwebs, but to no avail.

News Credits: 6188 · Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:43 am

I just found something!
It was thread by Dead Metal, on here, and the line is called Autotech, by a Spanish company only selling in Europe.

This was the guy I was thinking of (second to last on the right, all five on the right are from the same line):

More images:

They have some here, too: http://www.tons-of-toys.com/transformables-gobots_c93

News Credits: 2 · Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:38 am

I remember this.

It was called "Autotech", and the announcer on the adverts proudly declared they would combine into one big "Auto-Bot".

I remember wondering how they got away with using the word 'Autobot'.

I believe it was Famosa who made them.