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News Credits: 7 · by **shortround** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:31 pm

I have been look back at some of g1 stuff because of a couple of theads. I have stumble across transformers decoys and wonder what they were exactly.

by **Rhask** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:12 pm

Little purple rubber robots that looked like other G1 robots. No articulation, no transforming, like a rubber army man. Pretty much a transformer character eraser.

News Credits: 5 · by **God Magnus** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:16 pm

Rhask wrote:Little purple rubber robots that looked like other G1 robots. No articulation, no transforming, like a rubber army man. Pretty much a transformer character eraser.

They were all red to start out with. After the initial release, the cons were changed to purple. They were pack-ins with the Throttlebots, Technobots, and Terrorcons, there were 52 of them and they were random. Also, in Japan, they sold a box set containing all of them along with an exclusive Laserbeak.

News Credits: 7 · by **shortround** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:12 am

Wow people will buy anything won't they and there going for $4.00 on ebay that with shipping and handleing. Gee are they really worth $4.00 or would that be consider a rip off. Can anyone tell me who this is:

by **Born Yesterday** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:33 am

I have a little purple Astrotrain decoy.

News Credits: 5 · by **God Magnus** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:35 am

Yeah, $4 is about the going rate. Some of the rarer ones can actually fetch upwards of $20. Crazy, I know.

As for the picture, it looks like a G2 design but I don't recognize it. Maybe it's a UK only G2?

News Credits: 1 · by **Bumbled** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:40 am

Never heard about Transformers Decoys :???:

News Credits: 7 · by **shortround** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:49 am

$20 bucks for bunch of little purple and red erasers wow I guess people will buy anything.

by **energonexpress** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 2:42 am

Some of them were pretty cool. Rumble was the only show accurate rumble ever, being purple.

I actually have all the throttlebots. Why did I get them? Decoys. I have two of the white car and two of the garbage truck. They came with different ones. It was hard to convince my parents i didn't already have them. I don't regret it though, my Jazz decoy stands proudly in my shrine of Jazzy goodness.

News Credits: 1 · by **Redimus** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 2:50 am

God Magnus wrote:As for the picture, it looks like a G2 design but I don't recognize it. Maybe it's a UK only G2?

Yup, it's one of our G1.5 toys (the only time in the history of time the UK DIDNT get stiffed).

Buggered if I know the name.

by **G1 Blaster** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 2:54 am

Redimus wrote:
God Magnus wrote:As for the picture, it looks like a G2 design but I don't recognize it. Maybe it's a UK only G2?

Yup, it's one of our G1.5 toys (the only time in the history of time the UK DIDNT get stiffed).

Buggered if I know the name.

Haha 'buggered'. To all my UK friends on here, I love your slang. It kicks the crap out of the 'urban' BS here in the States.

Hairs on a bobbin, old bunt. Hairs on a bobbin!

News Credits: 7 · by **waaaaghlord** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 4:29 am

That guy is Turbomaster Flash

http://tfu.info/1992/Autobot/Flash/flash.htm

As for the Decoys, I've got the full set of the Japanese versions (numbered differently to the US/Euro releases). Only Jap one that I'm missing is the super rare yellow version of Sunstreaker. I think they're a lot of fun for what they are and are a great piece of nostalgia for the dars when I did indeed try to use them as erasers (they don't work

).