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[[File:ComandoToys-Logo.png|right|250px]]'''Comando Toys''' was an Argentinian company which primarily produced electronic battery-powered toys. | [[File:ComandoToys-Logo.png|right|250px]]'''Comando Toys''' was an Argentinian company which primarily produced electronic battery-powered toys. | ||
They held the license to manufacture official ''Transformers'' toys during the 1980s, with their two known releases (which remained exclusive to the Argentinian market) arriving in 1987 and being imported toys extracted from, ahem... more [[knockoff|legally grey]] toylines. Noticeably, the packaging for Walkie Talkie Robot has a similar design to that of [[Nasta]]'s U.S.-released Generation 1 merchandise, even using what seems to be the same font and color for the product name, leading to the possibility that Hasbro might have intended to treat Comando Toys as a regional equivalent of Nasta (notably, Nasta also primarily focused on electronic toys). | They [[Generation 1 toylines in Latin America|held the license to manufacture]] official ''Transformers'' toys during the 1980s, with their two known releases (which remained exclusive to the Argentinian market) arriving in 1987 and being imported toys extracted from, ahem... more [[knockoff|legally grey]] toylines. Noticeably, the packaging for Walkie Talkie Robot has a similar design to that of [[Nasta]]'s U.S.-released Generation 1 merchandise, even using what seems to be the same font and color for the product name, leading to the possibility that Hasbro might have intended to treat Comando Toys as a regional equivalent of Nasta (notably, Nasta also primarily focused on electronic toys). | ||
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Revision as of 01:36, 1 May 2025
Comando Toys was an Argentinian company which primarily produced electronic battery-powered toys.
They held the license to manufacture official Transformers toys during the 1980s, with their two known releases (which remained exclusive to the Argentinian market) arriving in 1987 and being imported toys extracted from, ahem... more legally grey toylines. Noticeably, the packaging for Walkie Talkie Robot has a similar design to that of Nasta's U.S.-released Generation 1 merchandise, even using what seems to be the same font and color for the product name, leading to the possibility that Hasbro might have intended to treat Comando Toys as a regional equivalent of Nasta (notably, Nasta also primarily focused on electronic toys).
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- It is unknown what relationship Comando Toys had, if any, to fellow Argentinian toy company Antex, as they also had the license to manufacture toys in the country (having been provided by the Brazilian Estrela rather than by Hasbro directly).
- Comando Toys also held the license to produce G.I. Joe merchandise, with their line-up consisting of a radio with an included microphone and a pair of walkie-talkies. Funnily enough, these walkie-talkies were actually the same model used for the Transformers Walkie Talkie Robots, with their arms and heads removed, their stickers exchanged, and their bodies painted in woodland camouflage (and perhaps most shockingly, they actually pass off surprisingly well as simple walkie-talkies and not amputated robots at a glance!). [1]
