Esporte

Esporte is possibly an Autobot from the Estrela portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Also nationally ranked at Counter Strike and League of Legends.

Esporte is a sporty bot!

Toys

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Wired controllers severely reduce input lag.
  • Eletrix Esporte (Eletrix, 1985)
Exclusive to the Brazilian Transformers line by Estrela, Esporte transforms into a rather squashed red Nissan Fairlady (aka the Datsun Z)<ref>https://plastiqueboutique.com/remote-change-fairlady-robo-sealed/</ref> and back via electronic, wired remote control. Pressing the "Robô" button when he's in car mode causes him to move backwards and turn to his left, activating his transformation to robot mode, then sending him forward in a "walking" motion. The "Carro" button moves him forward, shifting him to car mode automatically if he's in robot mode.
Like the other Eletrix, the toy is powered by two AA batteries, with a cord over four feet long attaching the remote. He can only transform with the electronics: forcing the transformation manually will just strip the gears. Which also means his arms cannot raise up like they appear in the box art.
Unfortunately, as with other Eletrix toys (as well as the Bat-Robôs), Esporte's stickers use poor-quality glue that unfortunately tends to liquefy over time, often resulting in what appears to be a "wet" look. This liquefaction doesn't seem to be as aggressive in the Eletrix toys compared to the Bat-Robôs and you can still find plenty of them in the secondary market in more or less good shape (in contrast with the Bat-Robôs whose stickers seem to almost always look consistently ravaged), but alas, it is still an unfortunately omnipresent characteristic of this line-up regardless.

Notes

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  • "Esporte" is, as one deduces, the Brazilian Portuguese word for "sports".
  • The Eletrix were originally released in Japan by Yonezawa Toys under the name Remote Change Robo Series. They were also released in the US by Village Toys as Convert-A-Bots "Pow-R-Bots". Esporte is mostly identical to these other lines' releases of the toy: he has a new "ESPORTE" sticker on his hood rather than the original "FAIRLADY Z", plus the stickers on the remote control are different (but similar) for each company.
  • Also new to the Estrela versions of these toys is the packaging art, done in a painterly style to match the copies of the Hasbro art made for the other toys.

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