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    Default Convertors - Does anyone have any of these?

    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?

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

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    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.
    Which brings us to where we are today...



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    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.

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    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.

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    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?!)




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    I have some of these knockoffs from my childhood... the bat, the condor, etc...

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    i have a bunch of these in my collection! that little radio guy has a slide cover that goes over him and looks like a walkman

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    I remember seeing that bat one.

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