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    How many Transformers can you find that coincidentally look really similar to something else?

    For example, I've always thought that Mighty Orbots bore a very strong resemblance to G1 Blaster:


    Can anyone else find any others? Remember that it must be (as far as you know) coincidental and not intentional like say Animated Bulkhead's resemblance to Crunch from Mighty Orbots, or G1 Jetfire's resemblance to Macross' VF-1S etc.


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    G1 Catilla's armoured-up Pretender Shell and Battle Cat from Masters Of The Universe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
    How many Transformers can you find that coincidentally look really similar to something else?

    For example, I've always thought that Mighty Orbots bore a very strong resemblance to G1 Blaster:


    Can anyone else find any others? Remember that it must be (as far as you know) coincidental and not intentional like say Animated Bulkhead's resemblance to Crunch from Mighty Orbots, or G1 Jetfire's resemblance to Macross' VF-1S etc.

    If you look up Mighty Orbots on wikipedia the combined form was an out and ripoff from another show. They just changed the colours.

    Gotta love the 80's!

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    Kyle: Um... that's not much of a coincidence considering that they're two different versions of Arcee (and both colour schemes inspired by G1 Arcee). I'm looking for similarities that have occured coincidentally.

    It should be between a Transformer and a non-Transformer (perhaps I should've specified that in my first post).

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    G1 Catilla's armoured-up Pretender Shell and Battle Cat from Masters Of The Universe.
    Nice!

    Quote Originally Posted by SMHFConvoy
    If you look up Mighty Orbots on wikipedia the combined form was an out and ripoff from another show. They just changed the colours.

    Gotta love the 80's!
    Yeah, the gestalt robot form was ripped off from a Japanese mecha from Bandai called Godmars. Slightly different colours and the face was changed a bit (Godmars' head has a smaller robot head instead of a mouth! pic). Also, the individual Godmars robots have elemental powers, much like the individual Orbots! As the wiki article says, Tonka filed a lawsuit against Mighty Orbots, despite the fact that Bandai's Godmars model was NOT used by Tonka for GoBots. (-_-)

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    Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
    Kyle: Um... that's not much of a coincidence considering that they're two different versions of Arcee (and both colour schemes inspired by G1 Arcee). I'm looking for similarities that have occured coincidentally.

    It should be between a Transformer and a non-Transformer (perhaps I should've specified that in my first post).
    Um... perhaps you didn't notice the Davy Jones pic in that link?

    I'm not dumb...

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