Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination (toyline)

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The final series in Takara's "Generation 1" run, 1992's Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination (たたかえ! ちょうロボット生命体せいめいたいトランスフォーマー 合体大作戦がったいだいさくせん Tatakae! Chō Robot Seimeitai Transformer Gattai Daisakusen) takes the award for having the smallest number of individual releases in a "major" Transformers toyline. On the other hand, every release in the line is a multi-pack, containing anywhere from two to six individual robots. Also, Decepticons are back! Yay!

The line was advertised solely with story pages which did nothing to flesh out any of the individual components of the six combiner teams, however.

After this series, Transformers ended in Japan, not to resurface until 1995's short-lived Transformers G-2 toyline. In the interim, Takara put out more Brave series to provide giant transforming robot toys and fiction.

Toys

5-Robot Gestalts Micro Transformer 6-Robot Gestalts
VS Sets
Sixturbo

Notes

  • The Decepticon leader mentioned in the Operation Combination fiction, Scrash, never received a toy. In fact, he was never even shown. A theory is that Scrash would have been the toy known as Skyquake. The use of the Turbomasters and Predators in the Operation Combination toyline seems to support this, as does the fact that in some European markets, Skyquake was sold under the name "Crash". Skyquake was also released in Japan in the European packaging, with only some legal information on the back changed to Japanese, which seems to bear the idea out further.