Editing Kabaya

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'''Kabaya Foods Corporation''' (カバヤ食品 Kabaya Syokuhin) is a [[Japan|Japanese]] confectionery company.  In business at least since the 1960s, they are well known for their [[candy toy]]s: a variety of figurines, [[model kit]]s and other widgets that come packaged with a variety of different candies and gums. And they make a ''lot'' of them, with boy-oriented products alone ranging from plastic dinosaur kits to a broad variety of [[LEGO]] properties to ''Transformers'' toys and merchandise, the most widely-known being their many model kits that usually replicate scaled-down versions of larger figures.

Kabaya's relationship with ''Transformers'' began in the Generation 1 era, when they consistently produced figures and model kits of various size from 1985 to 1990.  The dawn of ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' saw the relationship reignite in 1997, and continue through [[Car Robots]] and the [[Unicron Trilogy]]. There was another pause in releases after 2005's [[Galaxy Force]] assortment, but Kabaya returned to the ''Transformers'' brand yet again in 2009, with a series of Generation 1 themed products being released up until 2016 and [[Transformers Adventure]] products also releasing in 2016. Unfortunately, there hasn't been another been another line of Kabaya kits since.

==Generation 1==
As mentioned, Kabaya is best known for their snap-together model kits, which were released in two separate series: the small-scale, single-color ''[[Transformers Choco]]'', and the larger, multi-coloured ''[[Transformers Gum]]'' series, the latter being the premiere line for which Kabaya is most widely recognized. Both types of kit were fully transformable, but the ''Gum'' kits went the extra mile by preserving many of the gimmicks from the original toys they were based on.

Kabaya also released a variety of soft rubber figures (similar to the [[Decoy]]s, a type of figure known as ''keshigomu'' in Japan) through their ''[[Transformers Milk Caramel|Transformers Caramel]]'' and ''[[Transformers Ramune]]'' lines; ''Ramune'' was also home to a variety of other candy toys, including PVC figurines and keychains.

When Generation 1 surged in popularity in the early 21st century, Kabaya got in on the nostalgia act with a series of "bottlecap" figurines. Later, they revived ''Transformers Gum'' to celebrate various eras of the Generation 1 franchise, spinning it off into a separate lines of candy toy models dedicated to new characters.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''Classic products (1985-1999)'''</u>
*[[Jigsaw Puzzle (Kabaya)|Jigsaw Puzzle]]
*[[Transformers Choco]]
*[[Transformers Gum]]
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*[[Transformers Milk Caramel]]
*[[Transformers Ramune]]
*[[Parody Deformed]]
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|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''Modern products (2000-today)'''</u>
*[[Transformers Wafer Choco]]
*[[Generation 1 Figure-Collection]]
*[[Transformers Gum#2009 series|Transformers Gum (2009 series)]]
*[[Gaiacross]]
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*[[Gaia Guardian]]
*[[Gaia Scramble]]
*[[Transformers D-Collection]]
*[[Transformers Block Wars]]
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*[[DX Gattai]]

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==Beast Era==
The formula employed during Generation 1 was faithfully replicated during the Beast Era, with the assorted ''Gum'' and ''Choco'' lines offering variously-sized model kits. Later waves of the ''Gum'' series along with the numerous ''Ramune'' lines offered fully-painted PVC figurines, while the ''[[Beast Fighters]]'' and ''[[Beast Battler]]'' lines took things in a [[super deformed]] direction.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''Beast Wars'''</u>
*[[Transformers: Beast Wars Gum|Beast Wars Gum]] Part 1
*[[Transformers: Beast Wars Gum|Beast Wars DX Gum]] Part 1
*[[Beast Wars Gummy]]
*[[Transformers: Beast Wars Choco|Beast Wars Choco]]
*[[Transformers: Beast Wars Ramune|Beast Wars Ramune]]
*[[Ju-C]]
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|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''Beast Wars II'''</u>
*[[Transformers: Beast Wars Gum|Beast Wars Gum]] Part 2 & 3
*[[Transformers: Beast Wars Gum|Beast Wars DX Gum]] Part 2 & 3
*[[Super Beast Wars Choco]] Part 1
*[[Transformers: Beast Wars Ramune#Beast Wars Ramune W|Beast Wars Ramune W]]
*[[Beast Wars II Choco]]
*[[Beast Wars II Holder]]
*[[Beast Fighters]]
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|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''Beast Wars Neo'''</u>
*[[Transformers: Beast Wars Gum|Beast Wars Gum]] Part 4
*[[Super Beast Wars Choco]] Part 2
*[[Transformers: Beast Wars Ramune#Beast Wars Selection Ramune|Beast Wars Selection Ramune]]
*[[Beast Battler]]
*[[Beast Wars Model Choco]]
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|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''Beast Wars Metals'''</u>
*[[Transmetals Dash!! Choco]]
*[[Transformers: Beast Wars Ramune#Metals Hero Ramune|Metals Hero Ramune]]
*[[Metallic Beast Ramune]]
*[[Hyper Beast Wars Choco]]
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==Car Robots==
The lines produced for ''Car Robots'' were all quite small, with only the ''[[Transformers DX]]'' figures being capable of transformation.

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*[[Ju-C]]
*[[Transformers DX]]
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*[[Transformers Gum#Car Robots|Transformers Gum]]
*[[Trans Kit]]
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==Unicron Trilogy==
Model kits were fully abandoned for the Unicron Trilogy product line, in favor of a wide variety of transforming miniature figures, and PVC figurines.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''Legends of the Microns'''</u>
* [[Big Transformers]]
* [[Transformers Mini Car Collection]]
* [[Change Micron]]
* [[Transformers Card]]
* [[Transformers Wafer Choco]]

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|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''Super Link'''</u>
* [[Jigsaw Puzzle (Kabaya)|Jigsaw Puzzle]]
* [[DX Transformers]]
* [[Transformers (Kabaya)|Transformers]]
* [[Hyper Transformers]]
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|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''Galaxy Force'''</u>
* [[Micron Galaxy]]
* [[Hyper Galaxy]]
* [[Blockformers]]
* [[Change Galaxy]]
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==Adventure==
*[[Transformers Adventure Gum]]
==Notes==
*This is actually the most extensive English-language article about Kabaya Foods on the internet, sadly.

==External links==
*[http://www.kabaya.co.jp/ Kabaya homepage] (Japanese)
*[http://www.fredsworkshop.com/vmodelkits.html Checklist and gallery of Kabaya Transformer kits]
*{{w|Kabaya|Kabaya at Wikipedia}}

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