Antex - Revision history

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	* Sometime in 1985, a batch of Estrela Minicars also started cropping up in some ~~Argentinan~~ regions with the bubble portion of their blister cards crudely cropped off and plastered into new ones, now bearing the logo ''Invasion Galactica'' and art of an UFO. More can be read about these releases [[Invasion Galactica\|on their dedicated page]], but in short; it is commonly presumed that this was the result of distributors and retailers repackaging their imported toys to look like domestically-made products in an attempt to evade protectionist laws, rather than this being a product of Antex or some other official Hasbro licensee. <ref>https://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Brazilian/Invasion.html</ref>		* Sometime in 1985, a batch of Estrela Minicars also started cropping up in some Argentine regions with the bubble portion of their blister cards crudely cropped off and plastered into new ones, now bearing the logo ''Invasion Galactica'' and art of an UFO. More can be read about these releases [[Invasion Galactica\|on their dedicated page]], but in short; it is commonly presumed that this was the result of distributors and retailers repackaging their imported toys to look like domestically-made products in an attempt to evade protectionist laws, rather than this being a product of Antex or some other official Hasbro licensee. <ref>https://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Brazilian/Invasion.html</ref>

	==References==		==References==

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	'''Antex Andina S.A.''', formally shortened to '''Antex''', is an [[Argentina\|~~Argentinian~~]] toy manufacturer, first established in 1975 and still in operation today.		'''Antex Andina S.A.''', formally shortened to '''Antex''', is an [[Argentina\|Argentine]] toy manufacturer, first established in 1975 and still in operation today.

	Presumably, they were [[Generation 1 toylines in Latin America\|one of the companies]] that held the license to manufacture and market ''Transformers'' toys in Argentina, bearing a similar line-up to that of the Brazilian licensee [[Estrela]]... Even though the extent to which they always legally had that license is debatable. Nonetheless, like Estrela, they also later became an official Hasbro distributor in the Argentinian market.		Presumably, they were [[Generation 1 toylines in Latin America\|one of the companies]] that held the license to manufacture and market ''Transformers'' toys in Argentina, bearing a similar line-up to that of the Brazilian licensee [[Estrela]]... Even though the extent to which they always legally had that license is debatable. Nonetheless, like Estrela, they also later became an official Hasbro distributor in the Argentinian market.

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Transformers

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	{{bp-multi\|[[Salt-Man X#Toys\|Salt-Man X]]<br>(red/~~white~~ or green/white)}}		{{bp-multi\|[[Salt-Man X#Toys\|Salt-Man X]]<br>(red/yellow or green/white)}}
	{{bp-multi\|[[Salt-Man Z#Toys\|Salt-Man Z]]<br>(blue/yellow or black/white)}}		{{bp-multi\|[[Salt-Man Z#Toys\|Salt-Man Z]]<br>(blue/yellow or black/white)}}
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	'''Antex Andina S.A.''', formally shortened to '''Antex''', is an [[Argentina\|Argentinian]] toy manufacturer, first established in 1975 and still in operation today.		'''Antex Andina S.A.''', formally shortened to '''Antex''', is an [[Argentina\|Argentinian]] toy manufacturer, first established in 1975 and still in operation today.

	Presumably, they were [[Generation 1 toylines in Latin America\|one of the companies that held the license to manufacture and market]] ''Transformers'' toys in Argentina, bearing a similar line-up to that of the Brazilian licensee [[Estrela]]... Even though the extent to which they always legally had that license is debatable. Nonetheless, like Estrela, they also later became an official Hasbro distributor in the Argentinian market.		Presumably, they were [[Generation 1 toylines in Latin America\|one of the companies]] that held the license to manufacture and market ''Transformers'' toys in Argentina, bearing a similar line-up to that of the Brazilian licensee [[Estrela]]... Even though the extent to which they always legally had that license is debatable. Nonetheless, like Estrela, they also later became an official Hasbro distributor in the Argentinian market.

	Their domestically-made toyline would consist of redecoed versions of the [[Mini-Vehicle]] and [[Jumpstarter]] molds, with most of them featuring entirely new colors not seen in their Estrela predecessors. Notably, unlike its Brazilian equivalent, Antex did not have the full monopoly on Transformers figures available in the country during the 1980s, with the regular international ''[[The Transformers (toyline)\|The Transformers]]'' toyline also releasing across multiple retailers and another Argentinian company — [[Comando Toys]] — also having obtained the licensing rights to produce their own ''Transformers''-branded products directly from Hasbro.		Their domestically-made toyline would consist of redecoed versions of the [[Mini-Vehicle]] and [[Jumpstarter]] molds, with most of them featuring entirely new colors not seen in their Estrela predecessors. Notably, unlike its Brazilian equivalent, Antex did not have the full monopoly on Transformers figures available in the country during the 1980s, with the regular international ''[[The Transformers (toyline)\|The Transformers]]'' toyline also releasing across multiple retailers and another Argentinian company — [[Comando Toys]] — also having obtained the licensing rights to produce their own ''Transformers''-branded products directly from Hasbro.

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	====Antex's Transformers toyline====		====Antex's Transformers toyline====

	Reportedly, Antex acquired the ''Transformers'' license second-hand through Estrela instead of going directly to [[Hasbro]]. Whether or not Estrela actually had the legal right to do this is ''questionable'', which kind of casts Antex's offerings in a weird light, but there you go. As a result, Antex's ''Transformers'' released in the same year (1985) and featured the same distinct logo and character identities as the Estrela version. These toys have different colors from their Estrela cousins... and considerably less quality control, with the plastic arbitrarily changing colors between copies and poorly-printed, poorly-sticking stickers - sometimes they'll already be peeled off on ''sealed'' figures! - which were fairly common to also be used on multiple different toys. <ref>[https://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Argentina/Argentina.html Page for Argentinian Transformers] on toyarchive.com</ref> On the flipside, at least they don't use a glue that tends to liquefy over time and eventually ~~corrode~~ the stickers into a soapy mess as with [[Bat-Robô\|some]] Estrela figures, so there's that.		Reportedly, Antex acquired the ''Transformers'' license second-hand through Estrela instead of going directly to [[Hasbro]]. Whether or not Estrela actually had the legal right to do this is ''questionable'', which kind of casts Antex's offerings in a weird light, but there you go. As a result, Antex's ''Transformers'' released in the same year (1985) and featured the same distinct logo and character identities as the Estrela version. These toys have different colors from their Estrela cousins... and considerably less quality control, with the plastic arbitrarily changing colors between copies and poorly-printed, poorly-sticking stickers - sometimes they'll already be peeled off on ''sealed'' figures! - which were fairly common to also be used on multiple different toys. <ref>[https://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Argentina/Argentina.html Page for Argentinian Transformers] on toyarchive.com</ref> On the flipside, at least they don't use a glue that tends to liquefy over time and eventually corrodes the stickers into a soapy mess as with [[Bat-Robô\|some]] Estrela figures, so there's that one small victory they have over their Brazilian cousins.

	The blister cards themselves are also just translated copies of the Estrela cards, featuring the original art and photographs of the Brazilian versions - despite the fact that these had colors that weren't actually provided by Antex. You can even tell that the "''¡Se transforma em robot y de nuevo en auto!''" ("It turns into a robot and back into an automobile!") text in the bottom right of the Robocar blister cards is crudely pasted over a white rectangle covering its equivalent in the Brazilian version, suggesting that, unlike Estrela, Antex did not have access to the original Hasbro-made art and graphic design assets and pretty much just fully relied on photocopying and writing over the premade packaging that they were given.		The blister cards themselves are also just translated copies of the Estrela cards, featuring the original art and photographs of the Brazilian versions - despite the fact that these had colors that weren't actually provided by Antex. You can even tell that the "''¡Se transforma em robot y de nuevo en auto!''" ("It turns into a robot and back into an automobile!") text in the bottom right of the Robocar blister cards is crudely pasted over a white rectangle covering its equivalent in the Brazilian version, suggesting that, unlike Estrela, Antex did not have access to the original Hasbro-made art and graphic design assets and pretty much just fully relied on photocopying and writing over the premade packaging that they were given.

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	====Antex's Transformers toyline====		====Antex's Transformers toyline====

	Reportedly, Antex acquired the ''Transformers'' license second-hand through Estrela instead of going directly to [[Hasbro]]. Whether or not Estrela actually had the legal right to do this is ''questionable'', which kind of casts Antex's offerings in a weird light, but there you go. As a result, Antex's ''Transformers'' released in the same year (1985) and featured the same distinct logo and character identities as the Estrela version. These toys have different colors from their Estrela cousins... and considerably less quality control, with the plastic arbitrarily changing colors between copies and poorly-printed, poorly-sticking stickers - sometimes they'll already be peeled off on ''sealed'' figures! - which were fairly common to also be used on multiple different toys. <ref>[https://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Argentina/Argentina.html Page for Argentinian Transformers] on toyarchive.com</ref> On the flipside, at least they don't use a glue that tends to liquefy over time as with [[Bat-Robô\|some]] Estrela figures, so there's that.		Reportedly, Antex acquired the ''Transformers'' license second-hand through Estrela instead of going directly to [[Hasbro]]. Whether or not Estrela actually had the legal right to do this is ''questionable'', which kind of casts Antex's offerings in a weird light, but there you go. As a result, Antex's ''Transformers'' released in the same year (1985) and featured the same distinct logo and character identities as the Estrela version. These toys have different colors from their Estrela cousins... and considerably less quality control, with the plastic arbitrarily changing colors between copies and poorly-printed, poorly-sticking stickers - sometimes they'll already be peeled off on ''sealed'' figures! - which were fairly common to also be used on multiple different toys. <ref>[https://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Argentina/Argentina.html Page for Argentinian Transformers] on toyarchive.com</ref> On the flipside, at least they don't use a glue that tends to liquefy over time and eventually corrode the stickers into a soapy mess as with [[Bat-Robô\|some]] Estrela figures, so there's that.

	The blister cards themselves are also just translated copies of the Estrela cards, featuring the original art and photographs of the Brazilian versions - despite the fact that these had colors that weren't actually provided by Antex. You can even tell that the "''¡Se transforma em robot y de nuevo en auto!''" ("It turns into a robot and back into an automobile!") text in the bottom right of the Robocar blister cards is crudely pasted over a white rectangle covering its equivalent in the Brazilian version, suggesting that, unlike Estrela, Antex did not have access to the original Hasbro-made art and graphic design assets and pretty much just fully relied on photocopying and writing over the premade packaging that they were given.		The blister cards themselves are also just translated copies of the Estrela cards, featuring the original art and photographs of the Brazilian versions - despite the fact that these had colors that weren't actually provided by Antex. You can even tell that the "''¡Se transforma em robot y de nuevo en auto!''" ("It turns into a robot and back into an automobile!") text in the bottom right of the Robocar blister cards is crudely pasted over a white rectangle covering its equivalent in the Brazilian version, suggesting that, unlike Estrela, Antex did not have access to the original Hasbro-made art and graphic design assets and pretty much just fully relied on photocopying and writing over the premade packaging that they were given.

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	====Antex's Transformers toyline====		====Antex's Transformers toyline====

	Reportedly, Antex acquired the ''Transformers'' license second-hand through Estrela instead of going directly to [[Hasbro]]. Whether or not Estrela actually had the legal right to do this is ''questionable'', which kind of casts Antex's offerings in a weird light, but there you go. As a result, Antex's ''Transformers'' released in the same year (1985) and featured the same distinct logo and character identities as the Estrela version. These toys have different colors from their Estrela cousins... and considerably less quality control, with the plastic arbitrarily changing colors between copies and poorly-printed, poorly-sticking stickers - sometimes they'll already be peeled off on ''sealed'' figures! - which were fairly common to also be used on multiple different toys. <ref>[https://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Argentina/Argentina.html Page for Argentinian Transformers] on toyarchive.com</ref>		Reportedly, Antex acquired the ''Transformers'' license second-hand through Estrela instead of going directly to [[Hasbro]]. Whether or not Estrela actually had the legal right to do this is ''questionable'', which kind of casts Antex's offerings in a weird light, but there you go. As a result, Antex's ''Transformers'' released in the same year (1985) and featured the same distinct logo and character identities as the Estrela version. These toys have different colors from their Estrela cousins... and considerably less quality control, with the plastic arbitrarily changing colors between copies and poorly-printed, poorly-sticking stickers - sometimes they'll already be peeled off on ''sealed'' figures! - which were fairly common to also be used on multiple different toys. <ref>[https://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Argentina/Argentina.html Page for Argentinian Transformers] on toyarchive.com</ref> On the flipside, at least they don't use a glue that tends to liquefy over time as with [[Bat-Robô\|some]] Estrela figures, so there's that.

	The blister cards themselves are also just translated copies of the Estrela cards, featuring the original art and photographs of the Brazilian versions - despite the fact that these had colors that weren't actually provided by Antex. You can even tell that the "''¡Se transforma em robot y de nuevo en auto!''" ("It turns into a robot and back into an automobile!") text in the bottom right of the Robocar blister cards is crudely pasted over a white rectangle covering its equivalent in the Brazilian version, suggesting that, unlike Estrela, Antex did not have access to the original Hasbro-made art and graphic design assets and pretty much just fully relied on photocopying and writing over the premade packaging that they were given.		The blister cards themselves are also just translated copies of the Estrela cards, featuring the original art and photographs of the Brazilian versions - despite the fact that these had colors that weren't actually provided by Antex. You can even tell that the "''¡Se transforma em robot y de nuevo en auto!''" ("It turns into a robot and back into an automobile!") text in the bottom right of the Robocar blister cards is crudely pasted over a white rectangle covering its equivalent in the Brazilian version, suggesting that, unlike Estrela, Antex did not have access to the original Hasbro-made art and graphic design assets and pretty much just fully relied on photocopying and writing over the premade packaging that they were given.

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	====Antex's Transformers toyline====		====Antex's Transformers toyline====

	Reportedly, Antex acquired the ''Transformers'' license second-hand through Estrela instead of going directly to [[Hasbro]]. Whether or not Estrela actually had the legal right to do this is ''questionable'', which kind of casts Antex's offerings in a weird light, but there you go. As a result, Antex's ''Transformers'' released in the same year (1985) and featured the same distinct logo and character identities as the Estrela version. These toys have different colors from their Estrela cousins... and considerably less quality control with ~~paint~~ changing colors and poorly-printed, poorly-sticking stickers - sometimes they'll already be peeled off on ''sealed'' figures! - which were fairly common to also be used on multiple different toys. <ref>[https://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Argentina/Argentina.html Page for Argentinian Transformers] on toyarchive.com</ref>		Reportedly, Antex acquired the ''Transformers'' license second-hand through Estrela instead of going directly to [[Hasbro]]. Whether or not Estrela actually had the legal right to do this is ''questionable'', which kind of casts Antex's offerings in a weird light, but there you go. As a result, Antex's ''Transformers'' released in the same year (1985) and featured the same distinct logo and character identities as the Estrela version. These toys have different colors from their Estrela cousins... and considerably less quality control, with the plastic arbitrarily changing colors between copies and poorly-printed, poorly-sticking stickers - sometimes they'll already be peeled off on ''sealed'' figures! - which were fairly common to also be used on multiple different toys. <ref>[https://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Argentina/Argentina.html Page for Argentinian Transformers] on toyarchive.com</ref>

	The blister cards themselves are also just translated copies of the Estrela cards, featuring the original art and photographs of the Brazilian versions - despite the fact that these had colors that weren't actually provided by Antex. You can even tell that the "''¡Se transforma em robot y de nuevo en auto!''" ("It turns into a robot and back into an automobile!") text in the bottom right of the Robocar blister cards is crudely pasted over a white rectangle covering its equivalent in the Brazilian version, suggesting that, unlike Estrela, Antex did not have access to the original Hasbro-made art and graphic design assets and pretty much just fully relied on photocopying and writing over the premade packaging that they were given.		The blister cards themselves are also just translated copies of the Estrela cards, featuring the original art and photographs of the Brazilian versions - despite the fact that these had colors that weren't actually provided by Antex. You can even tell that the "''¡Se transforma em robot y de nuevo en auto!''" ("It turns into a robot and back into an automobile!") text in the bottom right of the Robocar blister cards is crudely pasted over a white rectangle covering its equivalent in the Brazilian version, suggesting that, unlike Estrela, Antex did not have access to the original Hasbro-made art and graphic design assets and pretty much just fully relied on photocopying and writing over the premade packaging that they were given.

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Transformers: Generation 2

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	[[Image:TransformersEstrela-Logo.png\|center\|120px]]		[[Image:TransformersEstrela-Logo.png\|center\|120px]]
	Antex's ''Transformers'' offerings are significantly fewer in number than Estrela's, with half the Robocars being omitted and the [[Bat-Robô]] and [[Eletrix]] being nowhere in sight. As with their Brazilian equivalents, each toy comes in two different decos, and on top of that, there are also sticker variations, leading to a fair few combinations if you're really into getting ''every'' version of a toy. Interestingly, whereas one of the two decos for each Estrela ~~Robocar~~ was identical to its original Takara / Hasbro versions, the Antex Robocars all feature entirely unique colors - even though, as mentioned, the blister cards feature the same art and photographs as the Estrela versions.		Antex's ''Transformers'' offerings are significantly fewer in number than Estrela's, with half the Robocars being omitted and the [[Bat-Robô]] and [[Eletrix]] being nowhere in sight. As with their Brazilian equivalents, each toy comes in two different decos, and on top of that, there are also sticker variations, leading to a fair few combinations if you're really into getting ''every'' version of a toy. Interestingly, whereas one of the two decos for each of the first-wave Estrela Robocars was identical to its original Takara / Hasbro versions, the Antex Robocars all feature entirely unique colors - even though, as mentioned, the blister cards feature the same art and photographs as the Estrela versions.

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	'''Antex Andina S.A.''', formally shortened to '''Antex''', is an [[Argentina\|~~Argentinian~~]] toy manufacturer, first established in 1975 and still in operation today.		'''Antex Andina S.A.''', formally shortened to '''Antex''', is an [[Argentina\|Argentine]] toy manufacturer, first established in 1975 and still in operation today.

	Presumably, they were [[Generation 1 toylines in Latin America\|one of the companies]] that held the license to manufacture and market ''Transformers'' toys in Argentina, bearing a similar line-up to that of the Brazilian licensee [[Estrela]]... Even though the extent to which they always legally had that license is debatable. Nonetheless, like Estrela, they also later became an official Hasbro distributor in the Argentinian market.		Presumably, they were [[Generation 1 toylines in Latin America\|one of the companies]] that held the license to manufacture and market ''Transformers'' toys in Argentina, bearing a similar line-up to that of the Brazilian licensee [[Estrela]]... Even though the extent to which they always legally had that license is debatable. Nonetheless, like Estrela, they also later became an official Hasbro distributor in the Argentinian market.

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	'''Antex Andina S.A.''', formally shortened to '''Antex''', is an [[Argentina\|Argentinian]] toy manufacturer, first established in 1975 and still in operation today.		'''Antex Andina S.A.''', formally shortened to '''Antex''', is an [[Argentina\|Argentinian]] toy manufacturer, first established in 1975 and still in operation today.

	Presumably, they were [[Generation 1 toylines in Latin America\|one of the companies that held the license to manufacture and market]] ''Transformers'' toys in Argentina, bearing a similar line-up to that of the Brazilian licensee [[Estrela]]... Even though the extent to which they always legally had that license is debatable. Nonetheless, like Estrela, they also later became an official Hasbro distributor in the Argentinian market.		Presumably, they were [[Generation 1 toylines in Latin America\|one of the companies]] that held the license to manufacture and market ''Transformers'' toys in Argentina, bearing a similar line-up to that of the Brazilian licensee [[Estrela]]... Even though the extent to which they always legally had that license is debatable. Nonetheless, like Estrela, they also later became an official Hasbro distributor in the Argentinian market.

	Their domestically-made toyline would consist of redecoed versions of the [[Mini-Vehicle]] and [[Jumpstarter]] molds, with most of them featuring entirely new colors not seen in their Estrela predecessors. Notably, unlike its Brazilian equivalent, Antex did not have the full monopoly on Transformers figures available in the country during the 1980s, with the regular international ''[[The Transformers (toyline)\|The Transformers]]'' toyline also releasing across multiple retailers and another Argentinian company — [[Comando Toys]] — also having obtained the licensing rights to produce their own ''Transformers''-branded products directly from Hasbro.		Their domestically-made toyline would consist of redecoed versions of the [[Mini-Vehicle]] and [[Jumpstarter]] molds, with most of them featuring entirely new colors not seen in their Estrela predecessors. Notably, unlike its Brazilian equivalent, Antex did not have the full monopoly on Transformers figures available in the country during the 1980s, with the regular international ''[[The Transformers (toyline)\|The Transformers]]'' toyline also releasing across multiple retailers and another Argentinian company — [[Comando Toys]] — also having obtained the licensing rights to produce their own ''Transformers''-branded products directly from Hasbro.