I assume no one ended up getting a subscription to buy Voltron????
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I assume no one ended up getting a subscription to buy Voltron????
It was a real shame that Toynami in their time with Voltron never re-made the Vehicle Force. Toynami did make the Lion Force anniversary set for which I purchased.
As such, I always wanted a Vehicle Force but the quality was so dispersed wiht missing pieces and price was an issue.
However a couple of weeks ago on EBAY I found a pretty good Voltron Vehicle Force.
This Voltron did not have instructions or a box, however on the net, I found some website – "Angelfire" that had the old Voltron and some basic instructions.
As you can see from pictures from EBAY, this was filthy.
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If they cleaned the thing there could have been more interest.
I asked the seller about this toy. The story was that this belonged to her brother and it sat in the bedroom closet for years. She advised that the right arm had a scratch when in fact the clip on the hand was broken. As such the hand wont lock in. To fix this, I took the relevant vehicle apart and removed the spring. I put some tape on the hand so that it locked into the vehicle.
I considered complaining, but this was a bargain at $160 given that age and condition. So I just shut up and gave her a good comment. You don’t see that many Voltrons in such good condition.
Anyway it arrived today and I set back cleaning this thing. It took ages. I used water and paper towels.
Here they are all disassembled.
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I started making the teams:
Sea Team
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Land Team
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Air Team
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Here is the Vehicle Force Voltron all assembled together.
As you can see the EBAY photos didnt do Voltron justice. A good clean really picked him up.
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Hot Damn Mr Ed! That is a good find! I always preferred Vehicle Voltron over the Lions!
Lol! I forgot about the combined teams. Man it's been years since I watched V Voltron! Might have a looksee. Lionforce always puts me to sleep before the end of every ep. Without fail!!:rolleyes:
One day I will have a shiny metal V Voltron to stand next to my Lions! One day....
Nice clean-up job! ;)
Toynami actually did make a Vehicle Voltron toy ... two, in fact. One was a vinyl figure, the other was a Shogun figure. However, neither of them were transformable.Quote:
It was a real shame that Toynami in their time with Voltron never re-made the Vehicle Force. Toynami did make the Lion Force anniversary set for which I purchased.
Pity Toynami didn't make a Masterpiece Vehicle Voltron. I would have been all over that in a forkin' heartbeat.
Ditto. :cool:Quote:
I always preferred Vehicle Voltron over the Lions!
Opps sorry was a bit unclear.
I own the Toynami vinyls of Lion and Vehicle force too!
Might get them all together for a family shot soon!
Wow Ed! :eek:
For an utterly absurd gestalt, the sheer number of vehicles and pilots involved I've always found comical with Vehicle Force :p, he is an awesome looking toy robot and that specimen looks amazing after your attentive cleansing man! ;):cool:
Attentive cleaning is an understatement!!!!
Where there were grooves and dust form, I removed it. Then I lovingly dried it.
Really dumb of seller to not have cleaned it. The chrome is remarkably in top condition
Only other bummer are some tyres are cracking but that is expected of a toy this age. Does anyone know where I could possibly find replacement rubber tyres????
Some (bad) news from Matty Collector - they re-opened subs (obviously cause of low sales)... but with a new caveat for on-the-day buyers too.
You can only get the lions WITH their partners now.
BAH! I was only considering the human figures! Man what a monumental cock-up this has been!