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== Separate toy lines? == | == Separate toy lines? == | ||
I'd like to question our entire perception of Japanese G1 toylines based on their corresponding cartoons. It seems like Takara took a very... interesting approach: | I'd like to put into question our entire perception of Japanese G1 toylines based on their corresponding cartoons. It seems like Takara took a very... interesting approach: | ||
* The standard branding for Japanese G1 toys is "Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers". This continued way into 1990! | * The standard branding for Japanese G1 toys is "Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers". This continued way into 1990! | ||
* "Scramble City" is the closest Takara ever got to an actual separate sub-line with a consistent branding, which can be found on the packaging for Ultra Magnus, Galvatron, the Arialbots, the Protectobots, the Stunticons, the Combaticons, Metroflex and Dinosaurer (Trypticon). But then Takara complicates things further by also branding the 1987 Combiner teams (the Technobots and the Terrorcons) as part of "Scramble City". | * "Scramble City" is the closest Takara ever got to an actual separate sub-line with a consistent branding, which can be found on the packaging for Ultra Magnus, Galvatron, the Arialbots, the Protectobots, the Stunticons, the Combaticons, Metroflex and Dinosaurer (Trypticon). But then Takara complicates things further by also branding the 1987 Combiner teams (the Technobots and the Terrorcons) as part of "Scramble City". | ||
Revision as of 00:07, 28 November 2017
2006 Primus toy go here?
Should the 2006 Primus toy go here? As far as I can tell it isn't on any other toyline page and it should probably go somewhere. It is retroactively given the lowest ID number (C-00) and it seems to just use the F!SRLT logo (but I don't read Japanese).
On the Primus page the toy is listed under "Generation 1" which is a little strange since I don't think Japan ever had anything called "Generation 1" but anyway. - Starfield 17:09, 28 March 2010 (EDT)
1985 Minibots?
According to this page as it stands, the Japanese versions of G1 Powerglide, Beachcomber and Seaspray were released in 1985. However, photos of the boxes show that those toys have the ID numbers C-62, C-63 and C-64 respectively. As far as I was aware, Japanese Transformers didn't start getting the C and D prefixes until the second year of releases (i.e. 1986). For context, C-60 and C-61 were the 1986 figures Pipes and Tailgate. So what gives? Is the Wiki wrong and these figures ought to be in the 1986 section, or is the Wiki correct and (for some weird reason) they just happened to have 1986 numbering despite being released in 1985? This page: [1] has a scan of the 85 toy catalogue and Powerglide, Beachcomber and Seaspray aren't on it. I'm inclined to believe these three toys should be moved to the 1986 list. Anyone concur? Ryan Frost (talk) 09:24, 11 October 2016 (EDT)
- The entire formatting of the list is weird. It's all sorted based on United States assortments while completely omitting the Japanese ID numbers. Basically, this is the Japanese toyline from a US perspective, or something.--Nevermore (talk) 05:41, 13 October 2016 (EDT)
Separate toy lines?
I'd like to put into question our entire perception of Japanese G1 toylines based on their corresponding cartoons. It seems like Takara took a very... interesting approach:
- The standard branding for Japanese G1 toys is "Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers". This continued way into 1990!
- "Scramble City" is the closest Takara ever got to an actual separate sub-line with a consistent branding, which can be found on the packaging for Ultra Magnus, Galvatron, the Arialbots, the Protectobots, the Stunticons, the Combaticons, Metroflex and Dinosaurer (Trypticon). But then Takara complicates things further by also branding the 1987 Combiner teams (the Technobots and the Terrorcons) as part of "Scramble City".
- Unless I missed something, there are no toys branded "Transformers 2010".
- The 1987 Headmaster and Targetmaster figures are branded "The Headmasters", with additional "Headmaster" and "Targetmaster" labels. All toys from that year that aren't Headmasters or Targetmasters don't have the branding on their packaging. And to make matters een more confusing, the 1988 Headmaster Juniors are also branded "The Headmasters".
- The 1988 Godmaster figures are branded "Masterforce" (simply "Masterforce", not "Super God Masterforce"), with additional "Godmaster" labels.
- The 1988 Pretenders are branded "Pretender" in katakana and "Pretenders" in English.
- The 1989 Brainmasters are branded "Brainmaster".
- Black Shadow and Blue Bachus have their own "Crossformer" branding.
- The 1990 Micromasters, Dai Atlas, Roadfire and Sonic Bomber are branded "Micro Transformers". Galaxy Shuttle exists in two packaging variants, one with "Micro Transformers" branding and one without.
