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The latest movie Transformers remote controlled race cars reminded me of a toy I had that today I have no idea what it is. You see, my parents weren't exactly supportive of my love for toy robots, and my dad even discouraged it. Naturally, conflicting ideals in family life lead to destructive behavior; I began taking my less-loved robot toys apart to see how they worked, and then my parents would clean my room and loose all my screws.

But I digress. There was a transforming robot toy I had received that definitely was not Transformers (seriously, I'd know by now), and I am not aware of any other toyline that this thing could have been from. I would've asked the toy forum guys, but technically that forum is for "Transformer Toys"

Description of said toy: A large red truck, similar to Autobot Trailbreaker, except with a white shell and much bigger than a normal Transformer car. The toy was motorized with a nice array of gears for a variety of movement. The car could move (rather slowly) as a truck, could walk in the traditional legs-stuck-together waddle that many toy robots had, and had a winch with a nylon rope and hook. The transformation was relatively straight-forward, with the legs simply folding out from underneath, the arms pulling out to the sides, and the shell folding back to reveal the head.

I wouldn't see any problems for this to be in the toy forums, but I'm pretty sure I know what your talking about. I have an ad for it on the back of an old comic that sounds simiar. I'll see if I can scan it tonight, ok?

Sorry for the delay, took longer than I thought it would to dig up the issue. Anyway, is it a Morphodroid?



At the bottom you'll notice a red truck, and the transformation and description sounds similar to these guys. Unfortuneately, I couldn't find any info on the net about them.

The truck I had didn't have a remote control. There was just a 3-way switch: stop, move, and winch.

The transformation was simple, but still more complicated than "Lethal." However, that IS the kind of walking my figure did. The red truck at the bottom doesn't have the white shell that mine had, which is what covered his head. The robot's face was mostly red, but with a black visor and a vac-metal face plate and ear plates(?).

EDIT

Pfft. Search for "robot truck walking winch toy" and this is what you get:



That's the toy, but the website I found the image on says it's a Go-Bot. Can anybody confirm this?