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Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images
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Mon Dec 20, 2010 2:46 pmby Diem
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:
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Re: Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images
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Mon Dec 20, 2010 3:21 pmby Chaoslock
Wow, those minibots look like early protos.
Re: Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images
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Mon Dec 20, 2010 4:42 pmby Optimum Supreme
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.
Re: Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images
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Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:35 pmby SN95 Cobra R
Those other links on that site are linked wrong. 86 went to 1996 and kept getting worse.
Re: Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images
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Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:01 pmby craggy
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)
Re: Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images
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Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:09 pmby MightyMagnus78
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.
Re: Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images
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Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:27 pmby fenrir72
A lot of the links in the American toy catalog section are down. It skips to Beastwars in the 1986 link.
Re: Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images
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Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:26 pmby Dagon
I like the Coneheads alot, but I don't think that one could ever have enough Seekers.
Re: Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images
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Tue Dec 21, 2010 3:06 amby Samsonator
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)
Re: Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images
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Tue Dec 21, 2010 6:02 amby Mykltron
Those minibots ARE prototypes.
It's nice to see that they couldn't even get the transformations right back then either! (Warpath)
Re: Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images
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Tue Dec 21, 2010 2:47 pmby Samsonator
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.
