Walkie Talkie Robot
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- The Walkie Talkie Robot is a Transformer from the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Walkie Talkie Robots are a pair of - as one might infer - walkie-talkies.
Merchandise
The Transformers
- Walkie Talkie Robot (Walkie Talkie, 1987)
- Originally produced by Hong Kong company Artlight as 2 in 1 Robot Walkie Talkies [1], the Walkie Talkie Robots are a pair of figures released in Argentina by Comando Toys in 1987 under the Transformers license. As the name suggests, they double as walkie talkies, with their push-to-talk button being placed... Right in the middle of their crotches.
- Similarly to how Radio AM Robot (Comando Toys' other more popular Transformers offering) was an imported bootleg relabeled into an official toy, the design for the Walkie Talkie Robots is clearly ripped off from the titular mecha of Japanese anime Rokushin Gattai Godmars - although it does not seem that he directly copies any specific Godmars toy, thus technically avoiding the knockoff classification.
- The robots appears to have some slight variants, as their left arms and/or right legs might be colored in either blue or black (although black appears to be the most common of the two).
Notes
- The box art for Walkie Talkie Robot is clearly heavily traced over that of Generation 1 Soundwave.
- Oddly, Comando Toys also released the Walkie Talkie Robots under the G.I. Joe brand, but with an extensive effort to not make them look like robots: their arms and heads were removed, their bodies were painted in woodland camouflage, and their stickers were exchanged for more theme-fitting ones. Even the packaging contains the same styrofoam with visible slots for the now missing head and limbs. And surprisingly, since the main body of the robots is essentially one giant brick, it actually kind of works! [2]
