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News Credits: 293 · Fri Jan 16, 2015 6:24 pm

one day.... one day...

News Credits: 462 · Fri Jan 16, 2015 7:01 pm

Super Convoy is pretty cool from a fictional standpoint. Though he's part of the Japanese G1 cartoon continuity, his backstory contains elements from the Hasbro packaging backstory of the Action Masters and the Marvel Comics origin of Powermaster Optimus Prime. The toy's backstory introduced Nebulos, Nebulan Binary-Bonding, the Hasbro Powermaster concept, the Nebulan scientist Hi-Q, and Nucleon into the Japanese continuity; and placed the setting of this toy's backstory after Operation Combination right before G-2, sort of in a "G1.5" era.

News Credits: 6188 · Mon Feb 23, 2015 1:45 am

In 1990, the Transformers Zone OVA videocassette was released in Japan, collecting the entirety of the Victory sequel - consisting of just the one episode! The 'series' follows new Autobot leader Dai Atlas, and focused on the Micromasters, in their Planet Zone defense base. Among them, Rabbicrater, commander of Zone City's lunar base and pilot, the newest offering in the Seibertron.com galleries!

The Rabbicrater figure itself is a blue redeco of the 1989 Skystalker mold, and transforms into a Porsche 959 sports car. Purchasing the OVA videocassette was the only means to acquire the figure too, and you can take a look at both items in our galleries, by clicking on any image below!

Zone Rabbicrater

News Credits: 1 · Mon Feb 23, 2015 1:57 am

This is exactly the kind of stuff I love. Beautiful artwork and an obscure toy.

News Credits: 462 · Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:12 am

Didn't realize how similar Metrobomb looks to both Skystalker and Rabbicrater, essentially using the former's altmode colors and the latter's robot mode colors.

News Credits: 656 · Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:31 am

Woo hoo, Zone stuff! Love it. The bots from this era really need more reissues, there are some plain stellar toys from Zone/Return of Convoy that take the Micromasters to another level of fun.

Mon Feb 23, 2015 11:09 am

It's things like this that make me realize how many holes there are in my collection

Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:43 am

Rabbi-Crater? that might be the oddest TF name since Erector.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Feb 24, 2015 8:16 am

monstrinhotron wrote:Rabbi-Crater? that might be the oddest TF name since Erector.

The name comes from the Japanese folklore legend of the Rabbit of the Moon, as opposed to the Western forklore legend of the Man in the Moon.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Feb 24, 2015 8:32 am

Desslok2201 wrote:It's things like this that make me realize how many holes there are in my collection

Yeah. I've got a Dai Atlas-sized hole in my collection.

News Credits: 241 · Tue Feb 24, 2015 8:54 am

RhA wrote:
Desslok2201 wrote:It's things like this that make me realize how many holes there are in my collection

Yeah. I've got a Dai Atlas-sized hole in my collection.

I don't

Got the Kabaya kits of the Powered Masters, and they're great!

Sabrblade wrote:
monstrinhotron wrote:Rabbi-Crater? that might be the oddest TF name since Erector.
The name comes from the Japanese folklore legend of the Rabbit of the Moon, as opposed to the Western forklore legend of the Man in the Moon.

Japan has a lot of weird names, and Rabbicrater isn't weird, considering.

News Credits: 33 · Wed Feb 25, 2015 1:54 am

I once had the misfortune a few years back to pass up on buying Rabbicrater for 50p (yes, FIFTY pence) because I didn't collect Micromasters. I passed on it, despite thinking "I'm sure that toy isn't normally blue".

Oh, ignorance is a terrible, terrible thing - if only I'd known! That said... I still don't research my japanese TFs nearly as much as I ought to.

News Credits: 60 · Wed Feb 25, 2015 2:36 am

Amelie wrote:I once had the misfortune a few years back to pass up on buying Rabbicrater for 50p (yes, FIFTY pence) because I didn't collect Micromasters. I passed on it, despite thinking "I'm sure that toy isn't normally blue".

Oh, ignorance is a terrible, terrible thing - if only I'd known! That said... I still don't research my japanese TFs nearly as much as I ought to.

You're not the only one. Passed the opportunity to get a roughly $40. Dezaras because I wasn't familiar with him back then in 1992. :BOOM:

News Credits: 60 · Wed Feb 25, 2015 2:39 am

Amelie wrote:I once had the misfortune a few years back to pass up on buying Rabbicrater for 50p (yes, FIFTY pence) because I didn't collect Micromasters. I passed on it, despite thinking "I'm sure that toy isn't normally blue".

Oh, ignorance is a terrible, terrible thing - if only I'd known! That said... I still don't research my japanese TFs nearly as much as I ought to.

You're not the only one. Passed the opportunity to get a roughly $40 Dezaras because I wasn't familiar with him back then in 1992. :BOOM:

News Credits: 1 · Wed Feb 25, 2015 3:34 am

fenrir72 wrote:
Amelie wrote:I once had the misfortune a few years back to pass up on buying Rabbicrater for 50p (yes, FIFTY pence) because I didn't collect Micromasters. I passed on it, despite thinking "I'm sure that toy isn't normally blue".

Oh, ignorance is a terrible, terrible thing - if only I'd known! That said... I still don't research my japanese TFs nearly as much as I ought to.

You're not the only one. Passed the opportunity to get a roughly $40. Dezaras because I wasn't familiar with him back then in 1992.

Both these posts are so terrible even I feel the pain.

News Credits: 33 · Wed Feb 25, 2015 4:12 am

I only remember so specifically because it was blue and I kept thinking "Should've bought it. Its a different colour" after I'd gone home

News Credits: 462 · Wed Feb 25, 2015 7:50 am

fenrir72 wrote:
Amelie wrote:I once had the misfortune a few years back to pass up on buying Rabbicrater for 50p (yes, FIFTY pence) because I didn't collect Micromasters. I passed on it, despite thinking "I'm sure that toy isn't normally blue".

Oh, ignorance is a terrible, terrible thing - if only I'd known! That said... I still don't research my japanese TFs nearly as much as I ought to.

You're not the only one. Passed the opportunity to get a roughly $40 Dezaras because I wasn't familiar with him back then in 1992.

Though not nearly as old as those two figures, I once passed on getting a sweet deal on a Beast Wars Telemocha Series Archadis to go with the BWTMS Waspeeter that I did get because, at the time, my primary goal was getting the BWTMS toys of just the American characters, forgetting that I also wanted the pack-in DVDs that came with each figure (including Archadis). :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 122 · Wed Feb 25, 2015 9:12 am

People stop you're making me :BOOM:

News Credits: 241 · Wed Feb 25, 2015 10:47 am

Amelie wrote:I once had the misfortune a few years back to pass up on buying Rabbicrater for 50p (yes, FIFTY pence) because I didn't collect Micromasters. I passed on it, despite thinking "I'm sure that toy isn't normally blue".

And I still hate you for that, I so wanted that one! :sad:

(kidding sweetie, I still love you *hugs*)

Thu Mar 19, 2015 12:32 pm

These are some cool looking guys. I don't think that Hasbro or Shout would ever release english dubs, but I think it would be awsome to get a rerelease of this or some other Japan only stuf from the Headmaster/Victory/Masterforce era with a pack-in episode. I'd even take one with the same old school art cover!

News Credits: 6188 · Mon Apr 06, 2015 4:12 am

The Transformers franchise is currently all abuzz with Combiner Wars, so Seibertron.com has decided to take some time to showcase some earlier combiners too, and quite an update to our galleries and the fandom it is. They've shown up in the IDW comics (in Empire of Stone and the cover of this week's MTMTE), they're linked to the recent Masterpiece Star Saber figure - time to feast your optics and receptors on Liokaiser and the single Breastforce members: Leozack and Lionbreast, Drillhorn and Hornbreast, Guyhawk and Hawkbreast, Hellbat and Kōmoribreast, Jallguar and Jaguarbreast, Killbison and Bisonbreast!

Not only is the full set really quite expensive (the box set alone goes for $750 to $1,800 depending on the condition), it's also really hard to find them now in good condition, and to get the stickers to stay put due to the age of the adhesive and the toys - Seibertron took all his time and care to apply and reapply them for the galleries. And if that wasn't enough, Killbison is made of the extremely fragile gold plastic.

So, all that said, sit back, scroll down, click on any of the images below, and let us know what you think of Liokaiser and the team members of the Breastforce below. And who knows, maybe we can get Hasbro or Takara to include them in a late Combiner Wars re-imagining...

Victory Liokaiser

Victory Leozack

Victory Gaihawk

Victory Hellbat

Victory Jarugar

Victory Killbison

Victory Drillhorn

Victory Lionbreast

Victory Hawkbreast

Victory Komoribreast

Victory Jaguarbreast

Victory Bisonbreast

Victory Hornbreast