Convertors - Does anyone have any of these?

[sideswipes brother]

I was just surfing and came across www.toyarchive.com and found these.
http://www.toyarchive.com/Convertors/Convertors.html
Does anyone know much about them? They look cool. Do they contain die cast?

[gamblor916]

I remember these. I had Chopper and Tanker. From memory they were quite small and fiddly. No die cast just plastic.

[Tober]

I don't have any of them and I don't know much about them, except they were licensed from various Japanese toy lines including Macross, Orguss and Dorvack.

Essentially a cheap cash-in on the success of Transformers and Go-Bots.

[Lord_Zed]

I had one of the Orguss ones, they were pretty cheap and low quality compared to the Transformers of the era.

Mine eventually succumbed to age.

[Robzy]

There were actually countless "transforming" action figure lines during the 80s. Most people only know about Transformers and GoBots - essentially because these were the only 2 toylines to have TV shows, which highlights how important it was as a marketing tool.

[tjparkside]

There are some not bad Convertors Figures...I just got Convertors Avarians Robat (figure only/no sword-cost $8)







And still have part of convertors spies Cassette from the 80's (figure only/missing cover & headphones are...somewhere?!)