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2010-09-19T02:51:33Z

69.251.191.26: /* More patents */ new section

Anyone willing to go trolling through patent listings? We seem to be missing those for several members of various combiner teams. Perhaps they can be found by cross referencing those we do have? --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 10:54, 13 September 2010 (EDT)

[http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=TjU1AAAAEBAJ&dq (possibly) BioTron (Micronauts)]! --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 12:57, 13 September 2010 (EDT)
[http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=FH88AAAAEBAJ Lion Force Voltron]! --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 14:05, 13 September 2010 (EDT)

Don't know what [http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=0Rc9AAAAEBAJ&dp this] is, but I've got one in my box of older TFs at home. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 13:16, 13 September 2010 (EDT)
:I DO! I DO! That's a takara robo-block figure. They combine together like Legos to build larger stuff. They were sold in the US as ROBOTECH figures. I've got a ton of them! -ZacWilliam (not signed in)
::Thanks Zac! --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 17:24, 13 September 2010 (EDT)

This is a great find! It's got more recent stuff on too, like the [http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=1dCoAAAAEBAJ Optimus Prime battle rig blaster]! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 15:06, 13 September 2010 (EDT)

Was [http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=nO8vAAAAEBAJ&dq this] a GoBots or a TFs release? I think it was "My First Transformer", but I could be wrong. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 19:42, 13 September 2010 (EDT)
:[http://www.toyarchive.com/Gobots/ScooterBot.html GoBot.] --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 22:13, 13 September 2010 (EDT)

These are the patents for the Masters of the Universe meteor people - [http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=MxM-AAAAEBAJ&dq 1] & [http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=NBM-AAAAEBAJ&dq 2]. Yeah, they're only tangentially related, just demonstrating that this would work for other fandoms as well. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 11:30, 15 September 2010 (EDT)
== Leobreaker ==

Might this be Leobreaker? Looks kinda like it to me.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=__eZAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
:No. The company that filed this is Konami. And it doesn't look a thing like Leobreaker. At all. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 15:13, 13 September 2010 (EDT)
::FWIW, that's [http://ooebihara.sakura.ne.jp/ganngu/00/ganngu118.htm GunCaesar] from the GranSazer toy line.--[[User:Apcog|Apcog]] 18:44, 13 September 2010 (EDT)

== GoBots ==
[http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=0vY8AAAAEBAJ&dq Tank]
[http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=Xtg9AAAAEBAJ&dq Fitor]
[http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=0fY8AAAAEBAJ&dq Loco]
[http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=oAAuAAAAEBAJ&dq Cy-Kill]
[http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=XNg9AAAAEBAJ&dq Cy-Kill again]
[http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=0_Y8AAAAEBAJ&dq Turbo]
[http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=Uc0xAAAAEBAJ&dq Psycho]
[http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=Xdg9AAAAEBAJ&dq CopTur]
[http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=nO8vAAAAEBAJ&dq GoBots ride on]
[http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=9L0wAAAAEBAJ&dq Binoc]

== Why nothing later? ==

It seems odd that we've found nothing later than the Monsterbots but nearly everything prior. Forgive my ignorance are these patents only made public after a certain amount of time? That might explain why there's nothing from the Pretender years or after? If not anyone have any idea why the info's so "Backheavy" chronologicly speaking? --[[Special:Contributions/76.28.76.206|76.28.76.206]] 07:47, 14 September 2010 (EDT)
:I was wondering this too. If you search for Hasbro and then sort by date, it only lists 4 patents for all of 2009. Even the [http://www.uspto.gov/ US Patent Office] site only seems to return 5 results for Hasbro in 2009. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 08:29, 14 September 2010 (EDT)
::Don't know. It could simply be that no one at the Patent Office has got around to posting them online. Let's not look a gift horse in the mouth, though. This is a simply amazing amount of data. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 08:45, 14 September 2010 (EDT)
:::Out of curiousity have we started to do pages for the "inventors" and wich figures each created?
::::We may already have pages for some of these designers, if we don't we should make them. I'm planning on resorting this entire page following the checklists for each year, that way we can easily see what remains to be found. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 10:42, 14 September 2010 (EDT)

== What hasn't turned up is very interesting... ==

No 1984 mini-vehicles, even though their 1986 retools have been found. Reflector is a no-show, but all the Microman Gun Robos and Egg Robos have been found. No Twin Twist or Whirl, even though Topspin and Roadbuster have been found. Oddly, Roadbuster and Jetfire are the only non-Takara TFs that have turned up (no Omega Supreme, Shockwave, Deluxe Insecticons or Sky Lynx). No "Movie" characters except Ultra Magnus, who is really the last of the Diaclone legacy characters. The 1988 line is represented by the combiner cassettes and one each of the Sparkabots, the Autobot Double Targetmasters and the Autobot Small Headmasters. Notably, 1988's Seacons are the only Scramble City style team NOT represented here. And then...nothing. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 11:56, 17 September 2010 (EDT)
:It is very odd and interesting how abruptly things stop appearing. One wonders if there's either a) a timeframe for release that has not passed or b)perhas at that point some new law changed or came into effect that altered how things were catagorized or something. The other posssibility is that it's an artifact of however the database was created. Some quirk of data entry at the place of downloading that's either left some out or lead to them all not yet being entered digitally? I don't know, I'd love to see the pretender concept or some such... --[[Special:Contributions/99.69.51.218|99.69.51.218]] 12:01, 17 September 2010 (EDT)

== More patents ==

I'm not sure what the scope of your list is, but here are some more...

G2 Scorpia http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=Bg89AAAAEBAJ
Machine Wars / Beast Wars Flipchangers http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=JP&NR=9010442A&KC=A&FT=D&date=19970114&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_V3
G2 Rotoforce http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=JP&NR=7250972A&KC=A&FT=D&date=19951003&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_V3
Unused 6-Changer http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=JP&NR=63164984A&KC=A&FT=D&date=19880708&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_V3
Powermaster gimmick http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?FT=D&date=19940622&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_V3&CC=JP&NR=6047036B&KC=B
Another unused 6-changer http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=JP&NR=62284680A&KC=A&FT=D&date=19871210&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_V3
Throttlebot concept w/ launcher http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=JP&NR=62275483A&KC=A&FT=D&date=19871130&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_V3
Throttlebot-like concept http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=JP&NR=62201175A&KC=A&FT=D&date=19870904&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_V3
Unused combination lock car robot http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=JP&NR=62192191A&KC=A&FT=D&date=19870822&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_V3
Scourge + Unused Dino/Bus robot http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=JP&NR=62183786A&KC=A&FT=D&date=19870812&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_V3
Unused Truck/Car combiner robots http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=JP&NR=62183787A&KC=A&FT=D&date=19870812&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_V3
Battlecharger gimmick http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=JP&NR=62102785A&KC=A&FT=D&date=19870513&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_V3
Galvatron (gimmick?) http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=JP&NR=62101276A&KC=A&FT=D&date=19870511&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_V3
Unused throttlebot-like shellformer http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=JP&NR=62002984A&KC=A&FT=D&date=19870108&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_V3

There's a ton more... [[Special:Contributions/69.251.191.26|69.251.191.26]] 22:51, 18 September 2010 (EDT)

Micro Transformers: American Rescue Team

2009-09-25T20:35:55Z

69.251.191.26: New page: In lou of the unreleased Block Town, in 1996 Takara released the Micromaster Rescue Patrol with jig saw-style floor plans in '''Microtransformers: American Rescue Team'''. Thi...

In lou of the unreleased [[Block Town]], in 1996 Takara released the [[Micromaster]] [[Rescue Patrol]] with jig saw-style floor plans in '''Microtransformers: American Rescue Team'''. This release causes some confusion in the West, where it has sometimes been mistaken as a Block Town release.

Block Town

2009-09-25T20:31:39Z

69.251.191.26: BLOCKTOWN WAS NEVER RELEASED. Yeesh!

[[Image:Blocktown-box.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Sigh.]]
'''Block Town''' was an unreleased [[Takara]] line that was planned to follow the Japanese release of ''[[Generation 2]]'' in 1996. The line would combine Transformers toys with Takara's ''Dia-Block'' building-block line (compatible with --and competing with-- Lego blocks), giving the Transformers small bases that could be rebuilt into battle stations.

[[Image:Blocktown-rescue.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Who didn't do this as a kid, really?]]
The first wave were planned to be four small toys released at 380 yen a piece (roughly $3.50 US at the time); individually-packaged members of the [[Micromaster]] [[Rescue Patrol]] with small garage-style bases. The Transformers toys themselves did not appear to have any notable changes from their [[Generation 1]] incarnations.

* [[Boater]] with marina
* [[Fire]] with fire station
* [[Holi]] with police station
* [[Pīpō]] with hospital

[[Image:Blocktown-xerox.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Oh, what could have been...]]
The next releases would be six sets, [[Redeco|redecoes]] of 3/4ths of the [[Axelerator|Axelerators]] and [[Skyscorcher|Skyscorchers]] (all as [[Autobot|Autobots]]) were displayed at a Japanese toy show.

* TFBT-1 Radar Set (with [[Afterburner (G2)|Afterburner]] redeco)
* TFBT-2 Control Set/Control Tower Set (with [[Terradive (G2)|Terradive]] redeco)
* TFBT-3 Airport Building Set (with [[Windrazor (G2)|Windrazor]] redeco)
* TFBT-4 Gasoline Station Set (with [[Rapido]] redeco)
* TFBT-5 Garage Set (with [[Carzap]], a [[Windbreaker]] redeco)
* TFBT-6 Signal/Traffic Lights Set (with [[Turbofire]] redeco)

Since the Axelerators and Skyscorchers are [[Gang-molding|gang-molded]], it is ''possible'' that two more sets were in the works using the last two members of those teams. If that were the case, [[Skram]] would have been red with white robot parts, while [[Eagle Eye (G2)|Eagle Eye]] would have been a lighter shade of green with blue parts.

The Takara ''[[Transformers Generations]]'' book shows packaging for the Garage set within one of its "unreleased items" sub-sections. This shot reveals that the robot packed in would have been named "Carzap". It is currently unknown what the names of the other five sets' robots were going to be, and if they too would also be alterations of the molds' European names (Windbreaker was simply "Zap" in the Eurpoean market).

[[Image:Blocktown.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Brick-a-brack]]
In March of 2005, a supposed Takara upcoming product list was leaked, which included the ''Block Town'' sets. However, the sets didn't see release then either, nor did some of the other items on the list.

[[Hasbro]] would much later revisit the combination of Transformers and building blocks with their ''[[Built to Rule]]'' line, with only marginally more success... in that ''Built to Rule'' even made it to stores.

==Microtransformers: American Rescue Team==

Although Block Town was canceled, the four Rescue Patrol Team members were still released in 1996, but instead as part of [[Microtransformers: American Rescue Team]], which paired each Micromaster with a jig saw-style floor plan. This release causes some confusion in the West, where it has sometimes been mistaken as a Block Town release.

==External Links==
*[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/browse_thread/thread/8c62b2a13e1bd5cb/7d9f87b53836fc2b?lnk=st&q=block+town+group%3Aalt.toys.transformers&rnum=2&hl=en#7d9f87b53836fc2b alt.toys.transformers post with the "leaked" product listing on Google]

[[Category:Block Town]]
[[Category:Unreleased toys]]