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	:''Horloge Robot is a [[Transformer]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family\|Generation ~~One~~]] [[continuity family]].''		:''Horloge Robot is a [[Transformer]] of unknown allegiance from the [[Generation 1 continuity family\|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
	[[File:HorlogeRobot-Packaging.jpg\|right\|thumb\|300px\|Oui, I'm obscure enough that I didn't have an article on this wiki for over 40 years!]]		[[File:HorlogeRobot-Packaging.jpg\|right\|thumb\|300px\|Oui, I'm obscure enough that I didn't have an article on this wiki for over 40 years!]]
	'''Horloge Robot''' is ~~a robot of unknown allegiance or background,~~ made out of the combination of 14 different vehicles.
			'''Horloge Robot''' is made out of the combination of 14 different vehicles.

	==Toys==		==Toys==
			===AVI France===
	*'''Horloge Robot''' (1985)		*'''Horloge Robot''' (1985)

	: Horloge Robot is an exceptionally rare and obscure toy, releasing [[The Transformers (European toyline)\|exclusively]] to the [[France\|French]] market in 1985 via small electronics company [[AVI France]] with the official licensing of Hasbro and in association with national broadcaster [[wikipedia:Canal+ (French TV channel)\|Canal+]] <ref>[https://x.com/tfwiki/status/1672553793995657216 Images of a packaged Horloge Robot] via x.com/tfwiki</ref>. He came in a single flat reddish brown color scheme without any stickers or paint applications, being packaged within a plain blister card with very little information besides the copyright markings, the transformation instructions, and the advertised feature of coming in "14 Pieces" as a descriptor of his ability to split apart into several small vehicles and back. As his name suggests, the core gimmick of Horloge Robot ~~(from the French "Watch Robot")~~ is the fact that his chest component doubles as a small digital watch.		: Horloge Robot (French for "Watch Robot") is an exceptionally rare and obscure toy, releasing [[The Transformers (European toyline)\|exclusively]] to the [[France\|French]] market in 1985 via small electronics company [[AVI France]] with the official licensing of Hasbro and in association with national broadcaster [[wikipedia:Canal+ (French TV channel)\|Canal+]] <ref>[https://x.com/tfwiki/status/1672553793995657216 Images of a packaged Horloge Robot] via x.com/tfwiki</ref>. He came in a single flat reddish brown color scheme without any stickers or paint applications, being packaged within a plain blister card with very little information besides the copyright markings, the transformation instructions, and the advertised feature of coming in "14 Pieces" as a descriptor of his ability to split apart into several small vehicles and back. As his name suggests, the core gimmick of Horloge Robot is the fact that his chest component doubles as a small digital watch.

	: Horloge Robot is clearly based on the ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Diaclone#Gats Blocker\|Gats Blocker]] mold... But, unlike [[pre-Transformers\|most other ''Diaclone''-derived ''Transformers'' toys]], he is ''not'' an official re-release of his [[TakaraTomy\|Takara]] equivalent: rather, Horloge Robot is none other than a [[Knockoff\|bootleg]] of Gats Blocker that had been previously released by AVI France under the name of "Robot Quartz", as well as by a number of other bootleg manufacturers and distributors during this time <ref>[https://www.ebay.com/itm/185597415782 An Ebay listing for AVI France's Robot Quartz]</ref>. How Hasbro gave licensing to a knockoff of a toy from Takara, the de facto creators of the ''Transformers'' as toys, is anyone's best guess, but considering how they only started licensing ''Diaclone'' figures from the 1982 Car Robots line-up and beyond (Gats Blocker was a figure from the earlier 1981 permutation of ''Diaclone''), it is very likely that they simply had no idea about this toy's bootleg origins.		: Horloge Robot is clearly based on the ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Diaclone#Gats Blocker\|Gats Blocker]] mold... But, unlike [[pre-Transformers\|most other ''Diaclone''-derived ''Transformers'' toys]], he is ''not'' an official re-release of his [[TakaraTomy\|Takara]] equivalent: rather, Horloge Robot is none other than a [[Knockoff\|bootleg]] of Gats Blocker that had been previously released by AVI France under the name of "Robot Quartz", as well as by a number of other bootleg manufacturers and distributors during this time <ref>[https://www.ebay.com/itm/185597415782 An Ebay listing for AVI France's Robot Quartz]</ref>. How Hasbro gave licensing to a knockoff of a toy from Takara, the de facto creators of the ''Transformers'' as toys, is anyone's best guess, but considering how they only started licensing ''Diaclone'' figures from the 1982 Car Robots line-up and beyond (Gats Blocker was a figure from the earlier 1981 permutation of ''Diaclone''), it is very likely that they simply had no idea about this toy's bootleg origins.
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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	*Funnily enough, AVI France also released bootlegs of the famous ''[[Micro Change]]'' MC-06 Watch Robo toy, later released in the ''[[Generation 2]]'' toyline as the plainly-named '[[Autobot (G2)\|Autobot]]'. Some of these releases were actually done under the [[GoBots]] brand (under the franchise's French name, ''Le Defi des Gobots'') <ref>[https://leforumdesgobots.forumgratuit.org/t194-les-montres-gobots "Les montres Gobots"] at leforumdesgobots.forumgratuit.org</ref>, making this one of [[Bat-Robô#Notes\|two times]] where the same molds were released both under the ''Transformers'' brand and a ''GoBots'' localization!		*Funnily enough, AVI France also released bootlegs of the famous ''[[Micro Change]]'' MC-06 Watch Robo toy, later released in the ''[[Generation 2]]'' toyline as the plainly-named '[[Autobot (G2)\|Autobot]]'. Some of these releases were actually done under the ''[[GoBots]]'' brand (under the franchise's French name, ''Le Defi des Gobots'') <ref>[https://leforumdesgobots.forumgratuit.org/t194-les-montres-gobots "Les montres Gobots"] at leforumdesgobots.forumgratuit.org</ref>, making this one of [[Bat-Robô#Notes\|two times]] where the same molds were released both under the ''Transformers'' brand and a ''GoBots'' localization!
	*AVI's "Robot Quartz" version of this mold was released in several other colors like white, blue, and teal green. The ''Transformers'' version, however; has only been found in the reddish brown deco. Considering how he seems to be a simple repackaging of previous AVI stock, it is not out of the question that the other decos could have also been released under ''Transformers'' packaging, but unfortunately, given how few copies have been found of Horloge Robot in the first place, we might actually never know.		*AVI's "Robot Quartz" version of this mold was released in several other colors like white, blue, and teal green. The ''Transformers'' version, however; has only been found in the reddish brown deco. Considering how he seems to be a simple repackaging of previous AVI stock, it is not out of the question that the other decos could have also been released under ''Transformers'' packaging, but unfortunately, given how few copies have been found of Horloge Robot in the first place, we might actually never know.
	==See ~~Also~~==
			==See also==
	*[[Radio AM Robot]], another bootleg-turned-official-figure.		*[[Radio AM Robot]], another bootleg-turned-official-figure.

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	==Toys==		==Toys==
	*'''Horloge Robot''' (1985)		*'''Horloge Robot''' (1985)
	Horloge Robot is an exceptionally rare and obscure toy, releasing [[The Transformers (European toyline)\|exclusively]] to the [[France\|French]] market in 1985 via small electronics company [[AVI France]] with the official licensing of Hasbro and in association with national broadcaster [[wikipedia:Canal+ (French TV channel)\|Canal+]] <ref>[https://x.com/tfwiki/status/1672553793995657216 Images of a packaged Horloge Robot] via x.com/tfwiki</ref>. He came in a single flat reddish brown color scheme without any stickers or paint applications, being packaged within a plain blister card with very little information besides the copyright markings, the transformation instructions, and the advertised feature of coming in "14 Pieces" as a descriptor of his ability to split apart into several small vehicles and back. As his name suggests, the core gimmick of Horloge Robot (from the French "Watch Robot") is the fact that his chest component doubles as a small digital watch.

	Horloge Robot is clearly based on the ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Diaclone#Gats Blocker\|Gats Blocker]] mold... But, unlike [[pre-Transformers\|most other ''Diaclone''-derived ''Transformers'' toys]], he is ''not'' an official re-release of his [[Takara]] equivalent: rather, Horloge Robot is none other than a [[Knockoff\|bootleg]] of Gats Blocker that had been previously released by AVI France under the name of "Robot Quartz", as well as by a number of other bootleg manufacturers and distributors during this time <ref>[https://www.ebay.com/itm/185597415782 An Ebay listing for AVI France's Robot Quartz]</ref>. How Hasbro gave licensing to a knockoff of a toy from [[Takara]], the de facto creators of the ''Transformers'' as toys, is anyone's best guess, but considering how they only started licensing ''Diaclone'' figures from the 1982 Car Robots line-up and beyond (Gats Blocker was a figure from the earlier 1981 permutation of ''Diaclone''), it is very likely that they simply had no idea about this toy's bootleg origins.		: Horloge Robot is an exceptionally rare and obscure toy, releasing [[The Transformers (European toyline)\|exclusively]] to the [[France\|French]] market in 1985 via small electronics company [[AVI France]] with the official licensing of Hasbro and in association with national broadcaster [[wikipedia:Canal+ (French TV channel)\|Canal+]] <ref>[https://x.com/tfwiki/status/1672553793995657216 Images of a packaged Horloge Robot] via x.com/tfwiki</ref>. He came in a single flat reddish brown color scheme without any stickers or paint applications, being packaged within a plain blister card with very little information besides the copyright markings, the transformation instructions, and the advertised feature of coming in "14 Pieces" as a descriptor of his ability to split apart into several small vehicles and back. As his name suggests, the core gimmick of Horloge Robot (from the French "Watch Robot") is the fact that his chest component doubles as a small digital watch.

			: Horloge Robot is clearly based on the ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Diaclone#Gats Blocker\|Gats Blocker]] mold... But, unlike [[pre-Transformers\|most other ''Diaclone''-derived ''Transformers'' toys]], he is ''not'' an official re-release of his [[TakaraTomy\|Takara]] equivalent: rather, Horloge Robot is none other than a [[Knockoff\|bootleg]] of Gats Blocker that had been previously released by AVI France under the name of "Robot Quartz", as well as by a number of other bootleg manufacturers and distributors during this time <ref>[https://www.ebay.com/itm/185597415782 An Ebay listing for AVI France's Robot Quartz]</ref>. How Hasbro gave licensing to a knockoff of a toy from Takara, the de facto creators of the ''Transformers'' as toys, is anyone's best guess, but considering how they only started licensing ''Diaclone'' figures from the 1982 Car Robots line-up and beyond (Gats Blocker was a figure from the earlier 1981 permutation of ''Diaclone''), it is very likely that they simply had no idea about this toy's bootleg origins.

	{{picsneeded\|Unboxed toy in combined and vehicle forms}}		{{picsneeded\|Unboxed toy in combined and vehicle forms}}

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	Horloge Robot is an exceptionally rare and obscure toy, releasing [[The Transformers (European toyline)\|exclusively]] to the [[France\|French]] market in 1985 via small electronics company [[AVI France]] with the official licensing of Hasbro and in association with national broadcaster [[wikipedia:Canal+ (French TV channel)\|Canal+]] <ref>[https://x.com/tfwiki/status/1672553793995657216 Images of a packaged Horloge Robot] via x.com/tfwiki</ref>. He came in a single flat reddish brown color scheme without any stickers or paint applications, being packaged within a plain blister card with very little information besides the copyright markings, the transformation instructions, and the advertised feature of coming in "14 Pieces" as a descriptor of his ability to split apart into several small vehicles and back. As his name suggests, the core gimmick of Horloge Robot (from the French "Watch Robot") is the fact that his chest component doubles as a small digital watch.		Horloge Robot is an exceptionally rare and obscure toy, releasing [[The Transformers (European toyline)\|exclusively]] to the [[France\|French]] market in 1985 via small electronics company [[AVI France]] with the official licensing of Hasbro and in association with national broadcaster [[wikipedia:Canal+ (French TV channel)\|Canal+]] <ref>[https://x.com/tfwiki/status/1672553793995657216 Images of a packaged Horloge Robot] via x.com/tfwiki</ref>. He came in a single flat reddish brown color scheme without any stickers or paint applications, being packaged within a plain blister card with very little information besides the copyright markings, the transformation instructions, and the advertised feature of coming in "14 Pieces" as a descriptor of his ability to split apart into several small vehicles and back. As his name suggests, the core gimmick of Horloge Robot (from the French "Watch Robot") is the fact that his chest component doubles as a small digital watch.

	Horloge Robot is clearly based on the ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Diaclone#Gats Blocker\|Gats Blocker]] mold... But, unlike other ''Diaclone''-derived Transformers toys, he is ''not'' an official re-release of his [[Takara]] equivalent: rather, Horloge Robot is none other than a [[Knockoff\|bootleg]] of Gats Blocker that had been previously released by AVI France under the name of "Robot Quartz", as well as by a number of other bootleg manufacturers and distributors during this time <ref>[https://www.ebay.com/itm/185597415782 An Ebay listing for AVI France's Robot Quartz]</ref>. How Hasbro gave licensing to a knockoff of a toy from [[Takara]], the de facto creators of the ''Transformers'' as toys, is anyone's best guess, but considering how they only started licensing ''Diaclone'' figures from the 1982 Car Robots line-up and beyond (Gats Blocker was a figure from the earlier 1981 permutation of ''Diaclone''), it is very likely that they simply had no idea about this toy's bootleg origins.		Horloge Robot is clearly based on the ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Diaclone#Gats Blocker\|Gats Blocker]] mold... But, unlike [[pre-Transformers\|most other ''Diaclone''-derived ''Transformers'' toys]], he is ''not'' an official re-release of his [[Takara]] equivalent: rather, Horloge Robot is none other than a [[Knockoff\|bootleg]] of Gats Blocker that had been previously released by AVI France under the name of "Robot Quartz", as well as by a number of other bootleg manufacturers and distributors during this time <ref>[https://www.ebay.com/itm/185597415782 An Ebay listing for AVI France's Robot Quartz]</ref>. How Hasbro gave licensing to a knockoff of a toy from [[Takara]], the de facto creators of the ''Transformers'' as toys, is anyone's best guess, but considering how they only started licensing ''Diaclone'' figures from the 1982 Car Robots line-up and beyond (Gats Blocker was a figure from the earlier 1981 permutation of ''Diaclone''), it is very likely that they simply had no idea about this toy's bootleg origins.

	{{picsneeded\|Unboxed toy in combined and vehicle forms}}		{{picsneeded\|Unboxed toy in combined and vehicle forms}}

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	:''Horloge Robot is a [[Transformer]] from the [[Generation One]] [[continuity family]].''		:''Horloge Robot is a [[Transformer]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family\|Generation One]] [[continuity family]].''
	[[File:HorlogeRobot-Packaging.jpg\|right\|thumb\|300px\|Oui, I'm obscure enough that I didn't have an article on this wiki for over 40 years!]]		[[File:HorlogeRobot-Packaging.jpg\|right\|thumb\|300px\|Oui, I'm obscure enough that I didn't have an article on this wiki for over 40 years!]]
	'''Horloge Robot''' is a robot of unknown allegiance or background, made out of the combination of 14 different vehicles.		'''Horloge Robot''' is a robot of unknown allegiance or background, made out of the combination of 14 different vehicles.

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			:''Horloge Robot is a [[Transformer]] from the [[Generation One]] [[continuity family]].''
	[[File:HorlogeRobot-Packaging.jpg\|right\|thumb\|300px\|Oui, I'm obscure enough that I didn't have an article on this wiki for over 40 years!]]		[[File:HorlogeRobot-Packaging.jpg\|right\|thumb\|300px\|Oui, I'm obscure enough that I didn't have an article on this wiki for over 40 years!]]
	'''Horloge Robot''' is a robot of unknown allegiance or background, made out of the combination of 14 different vehicles.		'''Horloge Robot''' is a robot of unknown allegiance or background, made out of the combination of 14 different vehicles.

FortressMaxxing at 16:32, 13 October 2025

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	Horloge Robot is an exceptionally rare and obscure toy, releasing [[The Transformers (European toyline)\|exclusively]] to the [[France\|French]] market in 1985 via small electronics company [[AVI France]] with the official licensing of Hasbro and in association with national broadcaster [[wikipedia:Canal+ (French TV channel)\|Canal+]] <ref>[https://x.com/tfwiki/status/1672553793995657216 Images of a packaged Horloge Robot] via x.com/tfwiki</ref>. He came in a single flat reddish brown color scheme without any stickers or paint applications, being packaged within a plain blister card with very little information besides the copyright markings, the transformation instructions, and the advertised feature of coming in "14 Pieces" as a descriptor of his ability to split apart into several small vehicles and back. As his name suggests, the core gimmick of Horloge Robot (from the French "Watch Robot") is the fact that his chest component doubles as a small digital watch.		Horloge Robot is an exceptionally rare and obscure toy, releasing [[The Transformers (European toyline)\|exclusively]] to the [[France\|French]] market in 1985 via small electronics company [[AVI France]] with the official licensing of Hasbro and in association with national broadcaster [[wikipedia:Canal+ (French TV channel)\|Canal+]] <ref>[https://x.com/tfwiki/status/1672553793995657216 Images of a packaged Horloge Robot] via x.com/tfwiki</ref>. He came in a single flat reddish brown color scheme without any stickers or paint applications, being packaged within a plain blister card with very little information besides the copyright markings, the transformation instructions, and the advertised feature of coming in "14 Pieces" as a descriptor of his ability to split apart into several small vehicles and back. As his name suggests, the core gimmick of Horloge Robot (from the French "Watch Robot") is the fact that his chest component doubles as a small digital watch.

	Horloge Robot is clearly based on the ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Diaclone#Gats Blocker\|Gats Blocker]] mold... But, unlike other ''Diaclone''-derived Transformers toys, he is ''not'' an official re-release of his [[Takara]] equivalent: rather, Horloge Robot is none other than a [[Knockoff\|bootleg]] of Gats Blocker that had been previously released by AVI France under the name of "~~19-in-1~~ Robot ~~Clock~~", as well as by a number of other bootleg manufacturers and distributors during this time. How Hasbro gave licensing to a knockoff of a toy from [[Takara]], the de facto creators of the ''Transformers'' as toys, is anyone's best guess, but considering how they only started licensing ''Diaclone'' figures from the 1982 Car Robots line-up and beyond (Gats Blocker was a figure from the earlier 1981 permutation of ''Diaclone''), it is very likely that they simply had no idea about this toy's bootleg origins.		Horloge Robot is clearly based on the ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Diaclone#Gats Blocker\|Gats Blocker]] mold... But, unlike other ''Diaclone''-derived Transformers toys, he is ''not'' an official re-release of his [[Takara]] equivalent: rather, Horloge Robot is none other than a [[Knockoff\|bootleg]] of Gats Blocker that had been previously released by AVI France under the name of "Robot Quartz", as well as by a number of other bootleg manufacturers and distributors during this time <ref>[https://www.ebay.com/itm/185597415782 An Ebay listing for AVI France's Robot Quartz]</ref>. How Hasbro gave licensing to a knockoff of a toy from [[Takara]], the de facto creators of the ''Transformers'' as toys, is anyone's best guess, but considering how they only started licensing ''Diaclone'' figures from the 1982 Car Robots line-up and beyond (Gats Blocker was a figure from the earlier 1981 permutation of ''Diaclone''), it is very likely that they simply had no idea about this toy's bootleg origins.

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	*Funnily enough, AVI France also released bootlegs of the famous ''[[Micro Change]]'' MC-06 Watch Robo toy, later released in the ''[[Generation 2]]'' toyline as the plainly-named '[[Autobot (G2)\|Autobot]]'. Some of these releases were actually done under the [[GoBots]] brand (under the franchise's French name, ''Le Defi des Gobots'') <ref>[https://leforumdesgobots.forumgratuit.org/t194-les-montres-gobots "Les montres Gobots"] at leforumdesgobots.forumgratuit.org</ref>, making this one of [[Bat-Robô#Notes\|two times]] where the same molds were released both under the ''Transformers'' brand and a ''GoBots'' localization!		*Funnily enough, AVI France also released bootlegs of the famous ''[[Micro Change]]'' MC-06 Watch Robo toy, later released in the ''[[Generation 2]]'' toyline as the plainly-named '[[Autobot (G2)\|Autobot]]'. Some of these releases were actually done under the [[GoBots]] brand (under the franchise's French name, ''Le Defi des Gobots'') <ref>[https://leforumdesgobots.forumgratuit.org/t194-les-montres-gobots "Les montres Gobots"] at leforumdesgobots.forumgratuit.org</ref>, making this one of [[Bat-Robô#Notes\|two times]] where the same molds were released both under the ''Transformers'' brand and a ''GoBots'' localization!
			*AVI's "Robot Quartz" version of this mold was released in several other colors like white, blue, and teal green. The ''Transformers'' version, however; has only been found in the reddish brown deco. Considering how he seems to be a simple repackaging of previous AVI stock, it is not out of the question that the other decos could have also been released under ''Transformers'' packaging, but unfortunately, given how few copies have been found of Horloge Robot in the first place, we might actually never know.
	==See Also==		==See Also==
	*[[Radio AM Robot]], another bootleg-turned-official-figure.		*[[Radio AM Robot]], another bootleg-turned-official-figure.

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	Horloge Robot is an exceptionally rare and obscure toy, releasing [[The Transformers (European toyline)\|exclusively]] to the [[France\|French]] market in 1985 via small electronics company [[AVI France]] with the official licensing of Hasbro and in association with national broadcaster [[wikipedia:Canal+ (French TV channel)\|Canal+]] <ref>[https://x.com/tfwiki/status/1672553793995657216 Images of a packaged Horloge Robot] via x.com/tfwiki</ref>. He came in a single flat reddish brown color scheme without any stickers or paint applications, being packaged within a plain blister card with very little information besides the copyright markings, the transformation instructions, and the advertised feature of coming in "14 Pieces" as a descriptor of his ability to split apart into several small vehicles and back. As his name suggests, the core gimmick of Horloge Robot (from the French "Watch Robot") is the fact that his chest component doubles as a small digital watch.		Horloge Robot is an exceptionally rare and obscure toy, releasing [[The Transformers (European toyline)\|exclusively]] to the [[France\|French]] market in 1985 via small electronics company [[AVI France]] with the official licensing of Hasbro and in association with national broadcaster [[wikipedia:Canal+ (French TV channel)\|Canal+]] <ref>[https://x.com/tfwiki/status/1672553793995657216 Images of a packaged Horloge Robot] via x.com/tfwiki</ref>. He came in a single flat reddish brown color scheme without any stickers or paint applications, being packaged within a plain blister card with very little information besides the copyright markings, the transformation instructions, and the advertised feature of coming in "14 Pieces" as a descriptor of his ability to split apart into several small vehicles and back. As his name suggests, the core gimmick of Horloge Robot (from the French "Watch Robot") is the fact that his chest component doubles as a small digital watch.

	Horloge Robot is clearly based on the ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Diaclone#Gats Blocker\|Gats Blocker]] mold... But, unlike other ''Diaclone''-derived Transformers toys, he is ''not'' an official re-release of his [[Takara]] equivalent: rather, Horloge Robot is none other than a [[Knockoff\|bootleg]] of Gats Blocker that had been previously released by AVI France under the name of "19-in-1 Robot Clock", as well as by a number of other bootleg manufacturers and distributors during this time. How Hasbro gave licensing to a knockoff of a toy from [[Takara]], the de facto creators of the ''Transformers'' as toys, is anyone's best guess, but considering how they only started licensing ''Diaclone'' figures from the 1982 Car Robots line-up and beyond (Gats Blocker was a figure from the earlier 1981 permutation of ''Diaclone''), it is very likely that they simply had no idea about this toy's bootleg ~~oeigins~~.		Horloge Robot is clearly based on the ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Diaclone#Gats Blocker\|Gats Blocker]] mold... But, unlike other ''Diaclone''-derived Transformers toys, he is ''not'' an official re-release of his [[Takara]] equivalent: rather, Horloge Robot is none other than a [[Knockoff\|bootleg]] of Gats Blocker that had been previously released by AVI France under the name of "19-in-1 Robot Clock", as well as by a number of other bootleg manufacturers and distributors during this time. How Hasbro gave licensing to a knockoff of a toy from [[Takara]], the de facto creators of the ''Transformers'' as toys, is anyone's best guess, but considering how they only started licensing ''Diaclone'' figures from the 1982 Car Robots line-up and beyond (Gats Blocker was a figure from the earlier 1981 permutation of ''Diaclone''), it is very likely that they simply had no idea about this toy's bootleg origins.

	{{picsneeded\|Unboxed toy in combined and vehicle forms}}		{{picsneeded\|Unboxed toy in combined and vehicle forms}}

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	Horloge Robot is clearly based on the ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Diaclone#Gats Blocker\|Gats Blocker]] mold... But, unlike other ''Diaclone''-derived Transformers toys, he is ''not'' an official re-release of his [[Takara]] equivalent: rather, Horloge Robot is none other than a [[Knockoff\|bootleg]] of Gats Blocker that had been previously released by AVI France under the name of "19-in-1 Robot Clock", as well as by a number of other bootleg manufacturers and distributors during this time. How Hasbro gave licensing to a knockoff of a toy from [[Takara]], the de facto creators of the ''Transformers'' as toys, is anyone's best guess, but considering how they only started licensing ''Diaclone'' figures from the 1982 Car Robots line-up and beyond (Gats Blocker was a figure from the earlier 1981 permutation of ''Diaclone''), it is very likely that they simply had no idea about this toy's bootleg oeigins.		Horloge Robot is clearly based on the ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Diaclone#Gats Blocker\|Gats Blocker]] mold... But, unlike other ''Diaclone''-derived Transformers toys, he is ''not'' an official re-release of his [[Takara]] equivalent: rather, Horloge Robot is none other than a [[Knockoff\|bootleg]] of Gats Blocker that had been previously released by AVI France under the name of "19-in-1 Robot Clock", as well as by a number of other bootleg manufacturers and distributors during this time. How Hasbro gave licensing to a knockoff of a toy from [[Takara]], the de facto creators of the ''Transformers'' as toys, is anyone's best guess, but considering how they only started licensing ''Diaclone'' figures from the 1982 Car Robots line-up and beyond (Gats Blocker was a figure from the earlier 1981 permutation of ''Diaclone''), it is very likely that they simply had no idea about this toy's bootleg oeigins.

			{{picsneeded\|Unboxed toy in combined and vehicle forms}}

	==Notes==		==Notes==

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	Horloge Robot is an exceptionally rare and obscure toy, releasing [[The Transformers (European toyline)\|exclusively]] to the [[France\|French]] market in 1985 via small electronics company [[AVI France]] with the official licensing of Hasbro and in association with national broadcaster [[wikipedia:Canal+ (French TV channel)\|Canal+]] <ref>[https://x.com/tfwiki/status/1672553793995657216 Images of a packaged Horloge Robot] via x.com/tfwiki</ref>. He came in a single flat reddish brown color scheme without any stickers or paint applications, being packaged within a plain blister card with very little information besides the copyright markings, the transformation instructions, and the advertised feature of coming in "14 Pieces" as a descriptor of his ability to split apart into several small vehicles and back. As his name suggests, the core gimmick of Horloge Robot (from the French "Watch Robot") is the fact that his chest component doubles as a small digital watch.		Horloge Robot is an exceptionally rare and obscure toy, releasing [[The Transformers (European toyline)\|exclusively]] to the [[France\|French]] market in 1985 via small electronics company [[AVI France]] with the official licensing of Hasbro and in association with national broadcaster [[wikipedia:Canal+ (French TV channel)\|Canal+]] <ref>[https://x.com/tfwiki/status/1672553793995657216 Images of a packaged Horloge Robot] via x.com/tfwiki</ref>. He came in a single flat reddish brown color scheme without any stickers or paint applications, being packaged within a plain blister card with very little information besides the copyright markings, the transformation instructions, and the advertised feature of coming in "14 Pieces" as a descriptor of his ability to split apart into several small vehicles and back. As his name suggests, the core gimmick of Horloge Robot (from the French "Watch Robot") is the fact that his chest component doubles as a small digital watch.

	Horloge Robot is clearly based on the ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Diaclone#Gats Blocker\|Gats Blocker]] mold... But, unlike other ''Diaclone''-derived Transformers toys, he is ''not'' an official re-release of his [[Takara]] equivalent: rather, Horloge Robot is none other than a [[Knockoff\|bootleg]] of Gats Blocker that had been previously released by AVI France under the name of "19-in-1 Robot Clock", as well as by a number of other bootleg manufacturers and distributors during this time. How Hasbro gave licensing to a knockoff of a toy by [[Takara]], the de facto creators of the ''Transformers'' as toys, is anyone's best guess, but considering how they only started licensing ''Diaclone'' figures from the 1982 Car Robots line-up and beyond (Gats Blocker was a figure from the earlier 1981 permutation of ''Diaclone''), it is very likely that they simply had no idea about this toy's bootleg oeigins.		Horloge Robot is clearly based on the ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Diaclone#Gats Blocker\|Gats Blocker]] mold... But, unlike other ''Diaclone''-derived Transformers toys, he is ''not'' an official re-release of his [[Takara]] equivalent: rather, Horloge Robot is none other than a [[Knockoff\|bootleg]] of Gats Blocker that had been previously released by AVI France under the name of "19-in-1 Robot Clock", as well as by a number of other bootleg manufacturers and distributors during this time. How Hasbro gave licensing to a knockoff of a toy from [[Takara]], the de facto creators of the ''Transformers'' as toys, is anyone's best guess, but considering how they only started licensing ''Diaclone'' figures from the 1982 Car Robots line-up and beyond (Gats Blocker was a figure from the earlier 1981 permutation of ''Diaclone''), it is very likely that they simply had no idea about this toy's bootleg oeigins.

	==Notes==		==Notes==

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Toys

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	Horloge Robot is an exceptionally rare and obscure toy, releasing [[The Transformers (European toyline)\|exclusively]] to the [[France\|French]] market in 1985 via small electronics company [[AVI France]] with the official licensing of Hasbro and in association with national broadcaster [[wikipedia:Canal+ (French TV channel)\|Canal+]] <ref>[https://x.com/tfwiki/status/1672553793995657216 Images of a packaged Horloge Robot] via x.com/tfwiki</ref>. He came in a single flat reddish brown color scheme without any stickers or paint applications, being packaged within a plain blister card with very little information besides the copyright markings, the transformation instructions, and the advertised feature of coming in "14 Pieces" as a descriptor of his ability to split apart into several small vehicles and back. As his name suggests, the core gimmick of Horloge Robot (from the French "Watch Robot") is the fact that his chest component doubles as a small digital watch.		Horloge Robot is an exceptionally rare and obscure toy, releasing [[The Transformers (European toyline)\|exclusively]] to the [[France\|French]] market in 1985 via small electronics company [[AVI France]] with the official licensing of Hasbro and in association with national broadcaster [[wikipedia:Canal+ (French TV channel)\|Canal+]] <ref>[https://x.com/tfwiki/status/1672553793995657216 Images of a packaged Horloge Robot] via x.com/tfwiki</ref>. He came in a single flat reddish brown color scheme without any stickers or paint applications, being packaged within a plain blister card with very little information besides the copyright markings, the transformation instructions, and the advertised feature of coming in "14 Pieces" as a descriptor of his ability to split apart into several small vehicles and back. As his name suggests, the core gimmick of Horloge Robot (from the French "Watch Robot") is the fact that his chest component doubles as a small digital watch.

	Horloge Robot is clearly based on the ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Diaclone#Gats Blocker\|Gats Blocker]] mold... But, unlike other ''Diaclone''-derived Transformers toys, he is ''not'' an official re-release of his [[Takara]] equivalent: rather, Horloge Robot is none other than a [[Knockoff\|bootleg]] of Gats Blocker that had been previously released by AVI France under the name of "19-in-1 Robot Clock", as well as by a number of other bootleg manufacturers and distributors during this time. How Hasbro gave licensing to a knockoff of a toy by [[Takara]], the de facto creators of the ''Transformers'' as toys, is anyone's best guess, but considering how they only started licensing ''Diaclone'' figures from the 1982 Car Robots line-up and beyond (Gats Blocker was a figure from the earlier 1981 permutation of ''Diaclone''), it is very likely that they simply had no idea about this toy's bootleg ~~nature~~.		Horloge Robot is clearly based on the ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Diaclone#Gats Blocker\|Gats Blocker]] mold... But, unlike other ''Diaclone''-derived Transformers toys, he is ''not'' an official re-release of his [[Takara]] equivalent: rather, Horloge Robot is none other than a [[Knockoff\|bootleg]] of Gats Blocker that had been previously released by AVI France under the name of "19-in-1 Robot Clock", as well as by a number of other bootleg manufacturers and distributors during this time. How Hasbro gave licensing to a knockoff of a toy by [[Takara]], the de facto creators of the ''Transformers'' as toys, is anyone's best guess, but considering how they only started licensing ''Diaclone'' figures from the 1982 Car Robots line-up and beyond (Gats Blocker was a figure from the earlier 1981 permutation of ''Diaclone''), it is very likely that they simply had no idea about this toy's bootleg oeigins.

	==Notes==		==Notes==

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	Horloge Robot is an exceptionally rare and obscure toy, releasing [[The Transformers (European toyline)\|exclusively]] to the [[France\|French]] market in 1985 via small electronics company [[AVI France]] with the official licensing of Hasbro and in association with national broadcaster [[wikipedia:Canal+ (French TV channel)\|Canal+]] <ref>[https://x.com/tfwiki/status/1672553793995657216 Images of a packaged Horloge Robot] via x.com/tfwiki</ref>. He came in a single flat reddish brown color scheme without any stickers or paint applications, being packaged within a plain blister card with very little information besides the copyright markings, the transformation instructions, and the advertised feature of coming in "14 Pieces" as a descriptor of his ability to split apart into several small vehicles and back. As his name suggests, the core gimmick of Horloge Robot (from the French "Watch Robot") is the fact that his chest component doubles as a small digital watch.		Horloge Robot is an exceptionally rare and obscure toy, releasing [[The Transformers (European toyline)\|exclusively]] to the [[France\|French]] market in 1985 via small electronics company [[AVI France]] with the official licensing of Hasbro and in association with national broadcaster [[wikipedia:Canal+ (French TV channel)\|Canal+]] <ref>[https://x.com/tfwiki/status/1672553793995657216 Images of a packaged Horloge Robot] via x.com/tfwiki</ref>. He came in a single flat reddish brown color scheme without any stickers or paint applications, being packaged within a plain blister card with very little information besides the copyright markings, the transformation instructions, and the advertised feature of coming in "14 Pieces" as a descriptor of his ability to split apart into several small vehicles and back. As his name suggests, the core gimmick of Horloge Robot (from the French "Watch Robot") is the fact that his chest component doubles as a small digital watch.

	Horloge Robot is clearly based on the ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Diaclone#Gats Blocker\|Gats Blocker]] mold... But, unlike other ''Diaclone''-derived Transformers toys, he is ''not'' an official re-release of his [[Takara]] equivalent: rather, Horloge Robot is none other than a [[Knockoff\|bootleg]] of Gats Blocker that had been previously released by AVI France under the name of "Robot Quartz", as well as by a number of other bootleg manufacturers and distributors during this time <ref>[https://www.ebay.com/itm/185597415782 An Ebay listing for AVI France's Robot Quartz]</ref>. How Hasbro gave licensing to a knockoff of a toy from [[Takara]], the de facto creators of the ''Transformers'' as toys, is anyone's best guess, but considering how they only started licensing ''Diaclone'' figures from the 1982 Car Robots line-up and beyond (Gats Blocker was a figure from the earlier 1981 permutation of ''Diaclone''), it is very likely that they simply had no idea about this toy's bootleg origins.		Horloge Robot is clearly based on the ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Diaclone#Gats Blocker\|Gats Blocker]] mold... But, unlike [[pre-Transformers\|most other ''Diaclone''-derived ''Transformers'' toys]], he is ''not'' an official re-release of his [[Takara]] equivalent: rather, Horloge Robot is none other than a [[Knockoff\|bootleg]] of Gats Blocker that had been previously released by AVI France under the name of "Robot Quartz", as well as by a number of other bootleg manufacturers and distributors during this time <ref>[https://www.ebay.com/itm/185597415782 An Ebay listing for AVI France's Robot Quartz]</ref>. How Hasbro gave licensing to a knockoff of a toy from [[Takara]], the de facto creators of the ''Transformers'' as toys, is anyone's best guess, but considering how they only started licensing ''Diaclone'' figures from the 1982 Car Robots line-up and beyond (Gats Blocker was a figure from the earlier 1981 permutation of ''Diaclone''), it is very likely that they simply had no idea about this toy's bootleg origins.

	{{picsneeded\|Unboxed toy in combined and vehicle forms}}		{{picsneeded\|Unboxed toy in combined and vehicle forms}}

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	Horloge Robot is an exceptionally rare and obscure toy, releasing [[The Transformers (European toyline)\|exclusively]] to the [[France\|French]] market in 1985 via small electronics company [[AVI France]] with the official licensing of Hasbro and in association with national broadcaster [[wikipedia:Canal+ (French TV channel)\|Canal+]] <ref>[https://x.com/tfwiki/status/1672553793995657216 Images of a packaged Horloge Robot] via x.com/tfwiki</ref>. He came in a single flat reddish brown color scheme without any stickers or paint applications, being packaged within a plain blister card with very little information besides the copyright markings, the transformation instructions, and the advertised feature of coming in "14 Pieces" as a descriptor of his ability to split apart into several small vehicles and back. As his name suggests, the core gimmick of Horloge Robot (from the French "Watch Robot") is the fact that his chest component doubles as a small digital watch.		Horloge Robot is an exceptionally rare and obscure toy, releasing [[The Transformers (European toyline)\|exclusively]] to the [[France\|French]] market in 1985 via small electronics company [[AVI France]] with the official licensing of Hasbro and in association with national broadcaster [[wikipedia:Canal+ (French TV channel)\|Canal+]] <ref>[https://x.com/tfwiki/status/1672553793995657216 Images of a packaged Horloge Robot] via x.com/tfwiki</ref>. He came in a single flat reddish brown color scheme without any stickers or paint applications, being packaged within a plain blister card with very little information besides the copyright markings, the transformation instructions, and the advertised feature of coming in "14 Pieces" as a descriptor of his ability to split apart into several small vehicles and back. As his name suggests, the core gimmick of Horloge Robot (from the French "Watch Robot") is the fact that his chest component doubles as a small digital watch.

	Horloge Robot is clearly based on the ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Diaclone#Gats Blocker\|Gats Blocker]] mold... But, unlike other ''Diaclone''-derived Transformers toys, he is ''not'' an official re-release of his [[Takara]] equivalent: rather, Horloge Robot is none other than a [[Knockoff\|bootleg]] of Gats Blocker that had been previously released by AVI France under the name of "19-in-1 Robot Clock", as well as by a number of other bootleg manufacturers and distributors during this time. How Hasbro gave licensing to a knockoff of a toy from [[Takara]], the de facto creators of the ''Transformers'' as toys, is anyone's best guess, but considering how they only started licensing ''Diaclone'' figures from the 1982 Car Robots line-up and beyond (Gats Blocker was a figure from the earlier 1981 permutation of ''Diaclone''), it is very likely that they simply had no idea about this toy's bootleg ~~oeigins~~.		Horloge Robot is clearly based on the ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Diaclone#Gats Blocker\|Gats Blocker]] mold... But, unlike other ''Diaclone''-derived Transformers toys, he is ''not'' an official re-release of his [[Takara]] equivalent: rather, Horloge Robot is none other than a [[Knockoff\|bootleg]] of Gats Blocker that had been previously released by AVI France under the name of "19-in-1 Robot Clock", as well as by a number of other bootleg manufacturers and distributors during this time. How Hasbro gave licensing to a knockoff of a toy from [[Takara]], the de facto creators of the ''Transformers'' as toys, is anyone's best guess, but considering how they only started licensing ''Diaclone'' figures from the 1982 Car Robots line-up and beyond (Gats Blocker was a figure from the earlier 1981 permutation of ''Diaclone''), it is very likely that they simply had no idea about this toy's bootleg origins.

	{{picsneeded\|Unboxed toy in combined and vehicle forms}}		{{picsneeded\|Unboxed toy in combined and vehicle forms}}