Cadbury's Transformers Card Game

Forget Galvatron—Colonel Ka-taffy is up to his old tricks!

Cadbury's Transformers Card Game is a promotional item produced for chocolate firm Cadbury's by Waddingtons Games Ltd. in 1986. Featuring a number of Transformers available in the UK toy line in that year, it makes Pepsi Optimus Prime look like a spokesperson for Campaign For A Commercial-Free Childhood.

Rules

2-4 players can participate in the cross-promoti— uh, fun. The object of the game is to collect four identical cards of any given Transformer. A designated dealer shuffles the pack, dealing four cards face-down to each player. The remaining cards are placed in a pile, face down, in the middle of the table with the top card removed and turned face up to start a discard pile next to the first pile.

The player to the left of the dealer starts the game. Remembering that the object of the game is to collect four cards of a single Transformer, each player takes turns to choose a card from either the turned-up discard pile or the main pile. If a player decides to keep one of these cards, then they must put a card from their hand face upwards onto the discard pile. If a player turns over a top card from the main pile then decides not to keep it, this card is also put face-up onto the discard pile.

Play continues with each player trying to collect a set of four pictures. If the main pile is finished before anyone has collected four cards then the discard pile is shuffled and placed face-downwards with the top card removed as at the beginning of the game. This continues until one player collects four cards of a single character.

Cards

Hasbro Exec: "Now we only have room for seven toys in this game, so we'd better use the good ones."

Four cards are included for each of the seven characters, along with two instruction cards, bringing the total to 30:

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• Autobots
  • Ultra Magnus
  • Bumblebee
  • Hot Spot
  • Hot Rod
• Decepticons
  • Galvatron
  • Cyclonus
  • Runamuck

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Notes

All we need now is Apeface on drums and we're set.

• Each character is represented by line art of their toy, along with their name, sub-line designation (e.g. "Mini Vehicle" for Bumblebee), and faction logo.
• Both the pack containing the game and the art on the cards are in black-and-white. Only the back of the cards sport any colour—the Cadbury's "Glass-And-A-Half" logo in its distinctive purple.
• Any resemblance to The Mattel & Mars Quick-Energy Chocobot Hour is purely... delicious.