Editing Generation 1 toylines in Latin America

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While most territories throughout the span of '''the Generation 1 ''Transformers'' toyline''' primarily received the original toys manufactured by [[Hasbro]] and [[Takara]] (and the few national companies that did get licensing to manufacture their own copies, like [[Joustra]] in [[France]] and [[El Greco]] in [[Greece]], having mostly just produced figures identical to their international counterparts save for a few minor variants), a remarkable set of oddities happened beyond the U.S. border, as [[Mexico]] and a good portion of [[South America]] throughout the mid-80s would instead get to manufacture and market their own regional versions of the Generation 1 toyline with far less oversight on part of Hasbro. The result would be a wide variety of small self-contained toylines, frequently sporting exotic variants of existing figures and even sometimes featuring entirely new toys, almost all of which would remain exclusive to their respective countries.

A more elaborate description of these toylines and the circumstances behind their releases is present in their companies' respective articles, with the primary interest of this page being in providing a complete summary of all toys released within them instead.

==Overview==
[[File:Antex-Robocars.jpg|thumb|upright=1|270px|Odd toy decos, check. Cardbacks that looks like cheap photocopies, check. Stickers that have already peeled off ''in the sealed packaging'', check. Yup... They're South American Transformers alright.]]
While it's difficult to explain in broad strokes what led to this arrangement, common sense suggests that it was most likely the result of protectionism and tariffs making it difficult for Hasbro to export their products to a good portion of Latin America. As the broad consensus on the economic history of the region goes:

{{bigquote|According to data compiled by the Fraser Institute, '''in 1980 Latin American was one of the most protectionist regions in the world'''; import tariffs across all countries and sectors – including those export sectors with no import tariffs – were, on average, 42 percent. For comparison, at that time average import tariffs were only 15 percent in the so-called East Asian Tigers nations.''|Sebastian Edwards, ''Protectionism and Latin America’s historical economic decline'' <ref>[https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/document/2023-03/protection.pdf Sebastian Edwards, Protectionism and Latin America's historical economic decline], Journal of Policy Modeling, Volume 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 573-584 (ISSN 0161-8938)</ref>}}

As a result, the more profitable deal seems to have been handing the ''Transformers'' license over to individual companies within those countries and more or less letting them do whatever they want in terms of releasing toys under the ''Transformers'' brand, which Hasbro would then profit from through royalties. Such an arrangement was not previously unseen in the toy market - for instance; the [[Kenner]] ''[[Star Wars]]'' figures released a couple of years before were also manufactured across a few Latin American countries under a similar licensing deal - but Hasbro seems to have been far, ''far'' more liberal in regards to licensing out the ''Transformers'' across the region, handing out the brand to significantly more companies and apparently being a lot less strict in regards to how exactly those companies would have to produce and market their Transformers toys.

The result of such an anarchic and decentralized approach was a tapestry of different micro-toylines releasing across the region, with odd toy decos, unusual marketing decisions, and inconsistent quality control and distribution practices becoming defining characteristics of the Latin American Transformers scene. [[Mini-Vehicle|Mini-Vehicles]] would get released in every color under the rainbow, characters would get arbitrarily renamed in the absence of any accompanying media, toys from other transforming robot toylines would get imported and rebranded as ''Transformers'' to fill in the gaps, and at one point, even [[Best Join|a literal Transformers knockoff]] would be [[Radio AM Robot|sold as a ''Transformers''-branded toy]]: Truly, these were some wild times for the brand.

Despite - or, rather; ''because of'' - this, the Latin American ''Transformers'' releases have become some of the most coveted vintage Transformers toys on the secondary market, with the rarity of these figures and their frequently unusual color variants appealing to every kind of collector from casual fans interested in owning odd variants of their favorite characters to hardened [[Completist|completists]] who *need* to own ''all'' the odd variants so as to fulfil their primal toy-gathering urges... Which, inevitably, has also led to most of these toys now fetching ridiculously high prices.

==Mexico==
[[File:IGA-Logo.png|center|180px|link=IGA]]
::''Main article: [[IGA]]''

''Transformers'' was released by [[IGA]] in Mexico in 1985. For the most part, the toys are similar to their Hasbro counterparts, though with plenty of minor coloring and materials differences... which apparently includes ''lead paint''. Oops. The line did not do well, and 1986's releases were little more than [[Metroplex (G1)#Toys|Metroplex]] and a handful of first-year Mini-Vehicles recolored roughly like their third-year retools. The line was fully canceled shortly after.

A number of these toys somehow ended up in European markets years after the line was over, which is when that whole "lead paint" thing was discovered. Oops.

{{Note|Please be advised that the "red eyes" should only appear on imported specimens sold at European retail. Toys purchased at Mexican retail most likely wouldn't have them.}}


;1985/1986
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''[[Mini-Vehicle]]s'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Brawn (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Brawn]]<br>(simplified face){{fact}}}}
{{bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#IGA|Bumblebee]]<br>(red, yellow, blue, white, silver)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#IGA|Cliffjumper]]<br>(red, yellow, blue, white, silver)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Gears (G1)#Toys|Gears]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Huffer (G1)#Toys|Huffer]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Windcharger (G1)#Toys|Windcharger]]<br>(no paint on face)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|<br>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Outback (G1)#IGA|Outback]]<br>(non-modified Brawn mold)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Pipes (G1)#IGA|Pipes]]<br>(all-blue, blue/white; non-modified Huffer mold)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Swerve (G1)#IGA|Swerve]]<br>(non-modified Gears mold)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Tailgate (G1)#IGA|Tailgate]]<br>(white, yellow; non-modified Windcharger mold)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''Autobot Cars'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Bluestreak (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Bluestreak]]<br>(no red paint on face, flat grey windows)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Hound (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Hound]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Ironhide (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Ironhide]]<br>(unpainted diecast shoulder connectors)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Prowl (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Prowl]]<br>(3 variants of "black" Prowl)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Ratchet (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Ratchet]]<br>(no hand stickers but red cross on roof; unpainted diecast shoulder connectors)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Sideswipe]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Trailbreaker (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Trailbreaker]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Wheeljack]]<br>(different factory stickers)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|<br>
{{bp-a1|[[Grapple (G1)#Toys|Grapple]]<br>(with red feet or corrected orange feet)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Hoist (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Hoist]]<br>(Trailbreaker head)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Inferno (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Inferno]]<br>(reversed arms, then corrected)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Red Alert (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Red Alert]]<br>(no red paint on doors)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Smokescreen (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Smokescreen]]<br>(regular and re-colored unmodified Bluestreak mold)}}
|
|
[[File:Prowl-Mexico.jpg|250px|thumb|IGA's Prowl, with extra black bits.]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''[[Jumpstarter]]s'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Twin Twist (G1)#Toys|Twin Twist]]<br>(with and without red face)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Topspin (G1)#Toys|Top Spin]]<br>(with and without red face)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''[[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Grimlock (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Grimlock]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Snarl (G1)#Toys|Snarl]]<br>(red eyes, no paint on diecast backpiece connector)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''Autobot Commander'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Optimus Prime]]<br>(w/ red eyes and w/o, w/ and w/o factory stickers on diecast cab section)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''Autobot City'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Metroplex (G1)#Toys|Metroplex]]}}</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=4|
[[File:Bumblebee-IGA.jpg|250px|thumb|IGA's Bumblebee ''(White and blue versions pictured)'']]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''[[Constructicon (G1)#Toys|Constructicons]]'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Bonecrusher (G1)/toys#Toys|Bonecrusher]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Hook (G1)/toys#Toys|Hook]]<br>(w/ red eyes & w/o on Devastator head)}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Long Haul (G1)/toys#Toys|Long Haul]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Mixmaster (G1)/toys#Toys|Mixmaster]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|<br>
{{Bp-d1|[[Scavenger (G1)/toys#Toys|Scavenger]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Scrapper (G1)/toys#Toys|Scrapper]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Devastator (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Devastator]]<br>(giftset, w/ red eyes and w/o on Devastator head)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''[[Triple Changer#Toys|Triple Changers]]'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Astrotrain (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Astrotrain]]<br>(w/ and w/o red eyes)}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Blitzwing (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Blitzwing]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''[[Seeker (body-type)#Toys|Decepticon Jets]]'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Skywarp (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Skywarp]] (plastic purple nose & landing gear)}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Starscream (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Starscream]] (silver, plastic nose & landing gear)}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Thundercracker]] (plastic nose & landing gear, dull blue)}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Ramjet (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Ramjet]] (sparkly red plastic)}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Thrust (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Thrust]] (sparkly red plastic)}}
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''Decepticon Communicator'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Soundwave]]<br>(black painted feet)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''Decepticon Leader'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Megatron]]<br>(made in France!)}}
|}
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==Brazil==
<center>[[Image:TransformersEstrela-Logo.png|120px|link=Estrela]]‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ㅤ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ㅤ[[Image:Estrela_logo.jpg|120px|link=Estrela]]</center> 
::''Main article: [[Estrela]]''

Easily the most well-known of the Southern-Hemisphere ''Transformers'' releases, [[Estrela]]'s batch of six Mini-Vehicles - now renamed into "Robocars" - were the bulk of the toys released by the company, put out across [[Brazil|Brazilian]] stores in two colors each, one based on its Hasbro original and one new - save for the mysterious "[[Bumper (G1)#Toys|Bumper]]" mold, who was part of this assortment (now under the name [[Sedan (Robocar)|Sedan]]), and had two unique decos instead. The line was filled out with redecoed [[Jumpstarter]]s called "Salt-Man" ("''salto''" meaning "jump" in Spanish and Portuguese) and some brand-new non-Takara molds with the [[Eletrix]] and [[Bat-Robô|Bat-Robôs]], respectively deriving from [[Yonezawa Toys]] and [[Asahi Corporation]]. The line also received a number of merchandise, including a [[Jogo dos Transformers|board game]], and even its own unique logo as seen above.

Most coveted among the Estrela toys is a second round of Robocars redecos, the "[[Optimus (faction)|Optimus]] vs [[Malignus (G1)|Malignus]]" series, which split the toys into brand-new good & evil (respectively) factions. While a lot of Estrela toys like the Salt-Men, the Eletrix, and the Bat-Robôs aren't particularly uncommon, these twelve toys —particularly the more radically-changed Malignus— have become extraordinarily expensive on the secondary market, easily earning triple-digit sums for even loose samples. Still-carded toys are exceptionally rare.

Estrela would continue working with Hasbro throughout the following years, with the company shifting their focus from distributing rather than manufacturing Transformers toys across Brazil. They would end this relationship in 2007 as Hasbro shifted towards their own South American distribution chains, and a messy decade-long lawsuit would follow regarding royalties over some of the (non-Transformers) Hasbro-derived toylines that Estrela still manufactured.


;1985
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''[[Mini-Vehicle|Robocars]]'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-multi|[[Windcharger (G1)#Estrela|Camaro]] (Windcharger)<br>(red/grey or white/black)}}
{{bp-multi|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#Estrela|Carrera]] (Cliffjumper)<br>(red/black or gold/black)}}
{{bp-multi|[[Brawn (G1)/toys#Estrela|Jipe]] (Brawn)<br>(green/yellow or light beige/dark beige)}}
{{bp-multi|[[Gears (G1)#Estrela|Pick-Up]] (Gears)<br>(blue/red or orange/red)}}
{{bp-multi|[[Sedan (Robocar)|Sedan]]<br>(white/black or blue/black)}}
{{bp-multi|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Estrela|Volks]] (Bumblebee)<br>(yellow/black or silver/black)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''Salt-Man'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-multi|[[Salt-Man X]]<br>(white/red or white/green)}}
{{bp-multi|[[Salt-Man Z]]<br>(black/yellow or blue/red)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''[[Eletrix]]'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-multi|[[Esporte]]}}
{{bp-multi|[[Jipe (Eletrix)|Jipe]]}}
{{bp-multi|[[Porsche (Eletrix)|Porsche]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:Estrela-BatRobôPickUp.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Estrela's Bat-Robô Pick-Up]]
|}

;1986
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
<ul class="iconlist">
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''[[Optimus (faction)|Optimus]]'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-op|[[Carrera (G1)|Carrera]]<br>(white/black or blue/black)}}
{{bp-op|[[Sedan (Optimus)|Sedan]]<br>(green/black or yellow/black)}}
{{bp-op|[[Volks (G1)|Volks]]<br>(orange/black or red/black)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''[[Malignus (G1)|Malignus]]'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-mal|[[Camaro#Toys|Camaro]]<br>(black/pink or teal/yellow)}}
{{bp-mal|[[Jipe (Malignus)#Toys|Jipe]]<br>(black/purple or blue/white)}}
{{bp-mal|[[Pick-Up (Malignus)#Toys|Pick-Up]]<br>(maroon/pink or green/purple)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''[[Bat-Robô]]''' <ref>There's some ambiguity as to when exactly the Bat-Robôs were released: On one hand, they feature similar packaging to Estrela's first batch of ''Transformers'' figures rather than the later Optimus x Malignus rebranding, but on the other hand, they do not show up on Estrela's 1985 catalog and were only advertised in Brazil's localization of the ''Transformers'' comics in issue 11 alongside the Optimus x Malignus toys. As a result, 1986 is generally considered the more tentative date.</ref></u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-multi|[[Pick-Up (Bat-Robô)|Pick-Up]]<br>(orange/black or green/blue)}}
{{bp-multi|[[Turbo (G1)|Turbo]]<br>(red/white or blue/grey)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:Camaro-Purple.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Estrela's Malignus Camaro. Gorgeous. And expensive.]]
|}


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==Argentina==
[[Argentina]] might have received the greatest variety of ''Transformers'' toys in Latin American stores during the Generation 1 toyline, with the original Hasbro-made figures releasing across several Argentinian stores but a pair of national companies also taking on the mantle of manufacturing and distributing their own figures. A handful of Estrela Robocars would also be roughly repackaged and sold across a few Argentinan stores [[Estrela#Licensing and distribution in Argentina|under new blister cards featuring the name "Invasion Galactica"]], with the most common running theory being that these were the product of national retailers repackaging foreign products to avoid taxation from protectionist laws.

===Antex===
<center>[[Image:TransformersEstrela-Logo.png|120px|link=Antex]]‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ㅤ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ㅤ[[Image:Antex_logo.gif|120px|link=Antex]]</center> 
::''Main article: [[Antex]]''

A bit of an odd case, it appears that Argentine company [[Antex]] got its ''Transformers'' license from Estrela, rather than Hasbro, which is kind of dubious on the "did Estrela actually have the authority to do that" mark. Antex would then release its own batch of Robocars and Salt-Men, with the packaging being direct translations of their Estrela counterparts, even featuring their same unique ''Transformers'' logo. And, of course, most of these would feature entirely new decos, generating yet another assortment of uniquely colored Mini-Vehicles.

Similar to Estrela, Antex would go on to officially distribute ''Transformers'' toys in the country throughout the 90s, with many imported ''[[Generation 2]]'' figures arriving to Argentina with Antex branding on the packaging. Antex would also re-release their Salt-Men during this time as [[Robot-Man X]] and [[Robot-Man Z]] under ''Generation 2'' packaging, with the toys being unchanged from their original run. A large number of on-card/boxed Antex toys would be found and sold en masse on Ebay and the likes during the early 2010s, making copies of these figures a bit more affordable than most of the South American originals featured here.

;1985
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''[[Mini-Vehicle|Robocar]]'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-multi|[[Windcharger (G1)#Antex|Camaro]] (Windcharger)<br>(blue/black or yellow/black)}}
{{bp-multi|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#Antex|Carrera]] (Cliffjumper)<br>(white or green)}}
{{bp-multi|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Antex|Volks]] (Bumblebee)<br>(red or orange)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''Salt-Man'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-multi|[[Salt-Man X#Toys|Salt-Man X]]<br>(red/white or green/white)}}
{{bp-multi|[[Salt-Man Z#Toys|Salt-Man Z]]<br>(blue/yellow or black/white)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
[[File:AntexVolks.jpg|thumb|250px|Antex's Robocar "Volks" (Bumblebee)]]
|}

;1994
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''Robot-Man'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d2|[[Robot-Man X]]<br>(red/yellow or green/white)}}
{{bp-d2|[[Robot-Man Z]]<br>(blue/yellow or black/white)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|[[File:G1-toy SaltManX Antex.jpg|thumb|250px|Antex's Robot-Man X]]
|}

===Comando Toys===
[[File:ComandoToys-Logo.png|center|200px|link=Comando Toys]]
::''Main article: [[Comando Toys]]''

Another Argentinian toy company, [[Comando Toys]], would also later earn the rights to manufacture and distribute their own Transformers products across the country... And their only fully-fledged transforming toy would consist of a radio originally manufactured by Taiwanese company [[Best Join]] as a [[Knockoff|bootleg]] mish-mashing various disparate elements of ''Transformers'' toys. And on the more merchandise side of things (thus not necessarily a Transformer "toy" by this wiki's classification), they also released a [[Walkie Talkie Robot|non-transforming ''Godmars''-based walkie talkie]]. Weird stuff.


;1987
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-multi|[[Radio AM Robot]]<br>(available in baby blue/dark blue/grey and dark grey/red)}}
|width="40%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:ComandoToys-RadioAMRobot.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Comando Toys' Radio AM Robot]]
|}
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==Venezuela==
[[Image:Rubiplas-Logo.png|center|200px|link=Rubiplas]]
::''Main article: [[Rubiplas]]''

In contrast with the wide spectrum of colorful Mini-Vehicle releases from all across Latin American, the tiny [[Venezuela|Venezuelan]] [[Rubiplas]] line is a lot less esoteric, with most figures having the same color schemes as their original Hasbro releases and therefore looking mostly identical save for a frequent lack of extra paint applications and some different shades of plastic (Rubiplas' Bumblebee, for instances, looks very, ''very'' bright and saturated as a result). The only real stand-out is their weirdly-colored [[Huffer (G1)#Rubiplas|Huffer]], now deco'd in red and yellow.


;1985
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''[[Mini Vehicle]]s'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Brawn (G1)/toys#Rubiplas|Brawn]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Huffer (G1)#Rubiplas|Huffer]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Windcharger (G1)#Rubiplas|Windcharger]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Rubiplas|Bumblebee]]<br>(red/black or yellow/black)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#Rubiplas|Cliffjumper]]<br>(red/black or yellow/black)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:G1toy-Rubiplas-Huffer.jpg|250px|thumb|Rubiplas' Huffer]]
|}
==Peru and Chile==
[[File:Lynsa-Logo.png|180px|center|link=Lynsa]]
::''Main article: [[Lynsa]]''

[[Peru|Peruvian]] company [[Lynsa]] made their own cheaper-to-produce versions of the original Mini-Vehicle range, often with less-to-no paint applications, decals or chrome, as well as multiple different color variants for each mold, which they would then both sell domestically and also export to [[Chile]]. There are supposedly upwards of ''three dozen'' different mold/color combinations altogether, many of them unique to the Peruvian line, but the ravages of time have made samples stunningly rare and reliable information scarce.

Another pair of companies - Abramowicz in Chile and BASA / HUDE in Peru - also released ''Transformers'' toys their respective countries, but these were simply imported rather than manufactured by those companies. The Lynsa figures were, thus; a cheaper alternative to these pricier figures.


;1987
{{note|Since, as mentioned, it's speculated that there might be '''even more''' as-of-now undocumented color variations of each mold, this section might or might not be incomplete.}} 
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|<u>'''Mini-Vehicles'''</u>
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Brawn (G1)/toys#Lynsa|Brawn]]<br>(olive green/cream and cream/olive green <ref>The two color schemes are inverted, with one Brawn's green parts being the other's cream parts and vice-versa.</ref>)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Lynsa|Bumblebee]]<br>(yellow/black, red/black, peach/black)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#Lynsa|Cliffjumper]]<br>(red/black, peach/black)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Gears (G1)#Lynsa|Gears]]<br>(light blue/red, dark blue/yellow, orange/yellow)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Huffer (G1)#Lynsa|Huffer]]<br>(light peach/blue, peach/yellow, blue/yellow, red/yellow)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Windcharger (G1)#Lynsa|Windcharger]]<br>(red/gray, blueish gray/blue, green/yellow)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:Lynsa-Gears.jpg|300px|thumb|Lynsa's Gears]]
|}

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==Legacy of Latin American toylines==
[[File:Legacy-Wreck-N-Rule-Twin-Twist.jpg|300px|thumb|This is the closest to a modern [[CHUG]] version of a Latin American toy... And it's not even ''actually'' based on the Latin American version of that toy. Bummer.]]
Odd and inconsistent as they might be, the Latin American Generation 1 toylines were inextricable components of the success of the ''Transformers'' brand in their respective countries and are often remembered warmly by fans in these regions: the fact that many of these smaller toylines existed in place of their larger and more substantive international equivalents ultimately didn't stop them from becoming a beloved portion of many childhoods, and likewise, the odd variants and marketing decisions also gave a regional identity of sorts to the brand within those countries. Unfortunately, though, these toylines and their legacy have since been mostly overlooked by modern official ''Transformers'' fiction and pretty much all but ignored by Hasbro and Takara when it comes to the modern ''Transformers'' toy market.

References to Latin American-original characters in media are not completely unseen, but rarely have they received more development besides small cameos. Estrela's Malignus faction would show up as a revolutionary mob in a few 2008 ''[[Transformers: TransTech|TransTech]]'' text stories, and later, the ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' text stories released from 2014 to 2016 would feature both the Optimus and Malignus as more prominent factions in a handful of chapters. Comando Toys' Radio AM Robot would also be briefly namedropped as an in-universe musician in the 2010 "[[A Team Effort]]" ''[[Wings Universe]]'' story. All of these were part of the very niche and fan-oriented works published by [[Fun Publications]] (usually under the ''[[Transformers Timelines (fiction)|Transformers Timelines]]'' banner) and were usually only either posted online or, sometimes, in the subscription-based [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club (magazine)|Transformers Collectors' Club magazine]]. Estrela's Pick-Up and Camaro would inspire the color schemes of ''[[Shattered Glass]]'' [[Swerve (SG)|Swerve]] and [[Tailgate (SG)|Tailgate]], two characters that would, again; only get minor appearances mostly in the form of Fun Publications' text stories. On the side of media that received more "mainstream" releases, a number of cameos from ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]'' are also based on the Latin American portion of the franchise - [[Sedan (Animated)|Sedan]], [[Volks (Animated)|Volks]], and [[Carrera (Animated)|Carrera]] all got brief "blink-it-and-you'll-miss-it" appearances as background characters - and later, Sedan would also get a mini-cameo in [[Kreon]] form in the [[Transformers Legends Special Chapter|''Transformers Legends'' Special Chapter]], the Bat-Robô version of Pick-Up would briefly show up in ''[[A Cliffjumper(s) Tale]]'' and... This is basically about it.

Despite the fact that there have been numerous Transformers toylines (and, in a sense, [[CHUG|a nearly two-decades-long meta-toyline!]]) specifically oriented around producing modern versions of older Transformers, with all of the original characters that received Latin American toy variants getting multiple new figures, and numerous obscure and forgotten characters frequently popping up across these newer toylines - often in the form of redecos and retools - it is unfortunately the case that virtually none of the Latin American Transformers have been represented in this form. There are two modern toys which can ''kinda'' be [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as Latin American homages, though the extent to which this is even intentional is debatable to begin with: "Puffer", a nickname given to both the Mexican IGA and French [[Joustra]] versions of [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] which use the Huffer mold as a basis, was [[Puffer|later canonized as an official character and released as part of the ''Kingdom'' toyline in 2021]]... Even though the version he's primarily based on is his lighter blue European counterpart rather than his darker Mexican equivalent. And ''[[Titans Return]]'' [[Twin Twist (G1)#Titans Return|Twin Twist]] would get re-released in the 2022 ''[[Transformers: Legacy]] Wreck N' Rule Collection'' in his red and blue [[Diaclone]] color scheme, which also happens to match one of two color schemes used by [[Salt-Man Z]] in Brazil, so... There's that for all the Estrela fans out there.

Unfortunately, it seems that we're still a long way from seeing a complete CHUG Optimus and Malignus team or a ''[[Masterpiece]]'' Radio AM Robot - but until then, we can at least take comfort in the fact that, as far as the first half of the 2020s is concerned, there have been 200% more characters that can double as homages to their South American counterparts compared to previous years, so who knows what the future might hold!

==See also==
* [[:Category:South American-original characters|Category:South American-original characters]]


==References==
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[[Category:Generation 1 toylines| Transformers (toyline)]]