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News Credits: 217 · Mon Dec 20, 2010 2:46 pm

Uberfan Monzo's website, The Obscure Transformers Website hosts some very interesting images from a catalog pre-dating 1985's Toy Fair. In these images we can see some early test colours for some familiar faces:

The full gallery with more images can be seen by clicking on the images above or going here.

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News Credits: 7 · Mon Dec 20, 2010 3:21 pm

Wow, those minibots look like early protos.

Mon Dec 20, 2010 4:42 pm

lol, poor Seaspray only has one prop, and it only has one blade.

EDIT: Oops, blowing up the picture, I see he does indeed have two props, but still with just one blade each.

Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:35 pm

Those other links on that site are linked wrong. 86 went to 1996 and kept getting worse.

News Credits: 4 · Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:01 pm

Yeah I don't think all of those Mini-bots are the final ones. I think at the very least there's some details not yet added.

I do like the Coneheads' colours. Dirge looks more purple-y, Thrust's rocking the metal silver and Black Ramjet! (well ok, dark grey, but still)

News Credits: 33 · Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:06 pm

Those coneheads are so sexy I could make love to them. :BOOM:

Interesting to note the black Hoist too, since the IGA release was a modified green Trailbreaker. Almost comes full circle.

*EDIT* ROFL - "make move to"? "make love to" :lol:

News Credits: 1 · Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:09 pm

craggy wrote:I do like the Coneheads' colours. Dirge looks more purple-y, Thrust's rocking the metal silver and Black Ramjet! (well ok, dark grey, but still)

Me to! I think they actually look better than the final colour schemes.

News Credits: 60 · Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:27 pm

A lot of the links in the American toy catalog section are down. It skips to Beastwars in the 1986 link.

Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:26 pm

I like the Coneheads alot, but I don't think that one could ever have enough Seekers.

News Credits: 3 · Tue Dec 21, 2010 3:06 am

Anyone else find it odd that though these minibots are clearly not even proper prototypes, just mock-up sculpts, they're all in their proper colours despite previous images of their final molds with differing "early" colour schemes? (Specifically Powerglide and Cosmos)

News Credits: 9 · Tue Dec 21, 2010 6:02 am

Those minibots ARE prototypes.

It's nice to see that they couldn't even get the transformations right back then either! (Warpath)

News Credits: 3 · Tue Dec 21, 2010 2:47 pm

Those minibots may well be prototypes, true... but the detailing on them is clearly not molded, rather sculpted (especially noticeable on Beachcomber's hood/legs) and I was merely using it to point out that their final mold versions (using the same mold as the finished figures) had been seen in other catalog pictures in differing "early" colours, while these incomplete sculpts are in their final colours.