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News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 10:01 pm

Found this guy in K-Mart and was wondering if its a KO of a Transformer or if its just a random tranforming robot. Im curious because right behind it was a KO movie ratchet with what i think was classics Syfires head and on the back of the box there was a picture of what looked to be a retooled Evac.

News Credits: 1 · by **adamassc** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 10:04 pm

it looks to be an insanely simplified and remolded Binaltech Windcharger. I've seen him in person, and they had a similarly treated KO bayverse Ratchet.

It's almost sad to see what they'll do to make a buck. reminds me of that poor Deathsaurer they push during christmas.

News Credits: 9 · by **Mykltron** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 4:30 am

I think it's a new mold. It's not a simplified Windcharger, the wheels are in entirely the wrong place.

News Credits: 4 · by **craggy** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 7:39 am

the legs look like Sunstreaker/Sideswipe/loads of other people's

News Credits: 3 · by **Emperor Galvatron** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 8:21 am

What's the scale? Could be some interesting cannon fodder..

by **Valandar** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:31 am

Looks more like a simplified version of a third party set of transforming robots from a few years ago. Called Roadbots, the originals ranged from about Deluxe size to massive figures nearly Leader size.

Here's a few of them:

http://www.tfsource.com/category/view/category_id/98/

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:01 am

Valandar wrote:Looks more like a simplified version of a third party set of transforming robots from a few years ago. Called Roadbots, the originals ranged from about Deluxe size to massive figures nearly Leader size.

Here's a few of them:

http://www.tfsource.com/category/view/category_id/98/

Except the Roadbots were (semi-)original molds by Happy Well, a legit toy company who first started with KO's of Power Rangers, Brave and Transformer toys, but later started producing original toys. I also wanna add that the RoadBots have been KO'ed by other companies. The irony just oozes out of it.

News Credits: 14 · by **Overcracker** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 12:06 pm

Happywell has some interesting KOs still. Macross's VF-1 Valkyrie which I own is pretty decent.

And I've been looking for the Power Rangers in Space Megazord KO: Electrobot (with lights and sounds) which looks pretty nifty in silver and gray.
http://happywell.smeitrade.com/index.do

They do however have their quite successful line of Roadbots, which are quite large, they have the 1:12 scale.

They seem to have some Soccer Cleat Transformers a la Shoe Label TF), a Soccer Player Bust that turns into a Cup wielding robot, and an actual soccer ball Transformer.

Happywell's site:
http://happywell.smeitrade.com

Best of all they are dirt cheap. My Valkyrie which is about 9 inches tall cost me 10 bucks. Sure it has no fast pack or super parts, but it does come with the bomb rifle and actually features some die cast.

For 10 bucks its a great deal.

by **Valandar** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 8:21 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Valandar wrote:Looks more like a simplified version of a third party set of transforming robots from a few years ago. Called Roadbots, the originals ranged from about Deluxe size to massive figures nearly Leader size.

Here's a few of them:

http://www.tfsource.com/category/view/category_id/98/

Except the Roadbots were (semi-)original molds by Happy Well, a legit toy company who first started with KO's of Power Rangers, Brave and Transformer toys, but later started producing original toys. I also wanna add that the RoadBots have been KO'ed by other companies. The irony just oozes out of it.

Yeah, I was just saying it looked like a KO of a Roadbot. I have a few around here from the local drug store.

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:31 pm

Emperor Galvatron wrote:What's the scale? Could be some interesting cannon fodder..

I didnt pick this guy up so im going by memory here but Id have to say its a little shorter than Masterpiece Skywarp. It would probably fit well in the binaltech line. Next time i go to kmart i think im going to get it. Might make a good repaint project. And its only $10. Ill take a comparison pic and post it so you can see the size.