Nasta
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Nasta was a U.S. company that manufactured a number of electronic radios for licensed brands including G.I. Joe, Smurfs, Barbie and the Rockers, and V under their Power-Tronic line.
In the 1980s, they released several licensed electronic toys under the Transformers brand. You clearly shouldn't take their toys to bath.
Although all of Nasta's Transformers toys were ostensibly based on existing characters, all of which were released as toys by Hasbro, an odd coloring choice for two of their toys, combined with an equally odd labeling decision, inadvertently resuted in the creation of a new character more than 20 years later.
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Notes
- Both the Decepticon-aligned "Electronic Voice Changer" and the "AM Radio & Headset" are styled after the Generation 1 Rumble/Frenzy design, but the colors are based on the unused alternate Micro Change color scheme for the figure. This, combined with the fact that both toys were given the somewhat bizarre designation "Enemy", in the same location where Hasbro's toys would have the character's name, resulted in many fans treating both toys as representations of an actual character named "Enemy", just like the Autobot-aligned "AM Radio" and "Mini Headset Radio" toys were both given the designation "Freedom Fighter". In 2012, TakaraTomy canonized Enemy as an official character that has two toys released thus far, both of them redecos of existing Rumble/Frenzy figure. However, it's not entirely clear if it was actually Nasta's intention to have those toys represent a separate character named "Enemy"—after all, the "AM Wireless Microphone", which was very unmistakably supposed to represent Megatron, was also identified as "Decepticon—Enemy", although in that case, that entire designation was treated as its faction, whereas the "character" was simply called… "Microphone". Yeaaaaaah.
