Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory (toyline)

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"One of these things is not like the others."

The Victory toyline was introduced in Japan in 1989, as the successor to the Super-God Masterforce toyline, continuing a period of significant deviation between the Western and Japanese Transformers franchises.

Whereas the Headmasters and Masterforce toylines had featured several Japanese-exclusive toys and characters, Victory (both the toyline and its supporting cartoon) was made up largely of toys that were never released in the West. Most of the toys released in Hasbro markets in 1989 were not part of the Victory toyline, and those that did make it were assigned markedly different character identities from their Western counterparts, as well as radically different color schemes.

Toyline

Regular retail

Dinoforce Doryu Gairyu Goryu Kakuryu Rairyu Yokuryu Dinoking (giftset)		Multiforce Dashtacker Machtackle Wingwaver Landcross (giftset)		Breastforce Drillhorn (w/ Hornbreast) Guyhawk (w/ Hawkbreast) Hellbat (w/ Kōmoribreast) Jallguar (w/ Jaguarbreast) Killbison (w/ Bisonbreast) Leozack (w/ Lionbreast) Liokaiser (giftset)		Brainmasters Blacker Braver Laster Road Caesar (giftset)		Liokaiser, the Beastforce combiner
Crossformers Black Shadow Blue Bacchus		Interstellar Transport Galaxy Shuttle		Six Changer Greatshot		Armored Warrior Victory Leo
Leaders Deszaras (w/ Eaglebreast & Tigerbreast) Star Saber Victory Saber (giftset)

Mail order exclusives

• Thunder Arrow (with pilot)

Post-Victory releases

Robotmasters Star Saber Victory Leo Victory Saber Victory Saber Limited Black Version		BotCon 2005 Deathsaurus		BotCon 2009 Leozack		Generations Sky Shadow		Masterpiece Star Saber
United EX Grimmaster Prime Mode		Kre-O Jarugar		Masterpiece Star Saber		Combiner Wars Liokaiser (Dezarus, Drillhorn, Guyhawk, Fellbat, Ion Scythe, Ironbison)
Titans Return Sky Shadow

Notes

• Despite featuring prominently in the Victory cartoon, the Micromaster Rescue Patrol Team were not actually sold as part of the Victory toyline. Kids had to wait for the early releases of the following toyline, Zone.
• Several Victory toys would be recycled in later lines:
  • The European-market Transformers series took the three car-mode Brainmasters and four of the Breastforce members, took away their combiner-bot-bits, redecoed them, and sold them as the Motorvators and Rescue Force (respectively).
  • The Multiforce got re-released as part of Takara's convenience-store-release Micromaster series as "Micromaster DX" toys in individual boxes.
  • Deathsaurus, Greatshot and Galaxy Shuttle all got redecoed and/or retooled for Takara's later Brave non-Transformers giant transforming robot toylines.