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Who's the space shuttle dude. Can anyone tell me anything about him?



Also, what's the deal with this?!? In Japan, Battle Beasts were Transformers? I thought someone just saw Takara on the BB and the box and threw them together, but on the box is Sharky and the BB. That's a weird crossover.
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Drawing a blank on the space shuttle (for now)...

But as for Battle Beasts, they were marketed in Japan as "BeastFormers". They were featured in the episode "Rebellion on Planet Beast" during the Japanese Headmaster season. The grand story behind the Japanese incarnation of Battle Beasts is pretty difficult to come by, as it was scattered across a multitude of formats (the cartoon cameo, toy insert pamphlets, toy packaging, candy packaging, etc).

That's pretty cool, really. Do you remember, does the shuttle transform or is it just a figure?

Ramjet wrote:That's pretty cool, really. Do you remember, does the shuttle transform or is it just a figure?

looks like a non transforming figure.

Ramjet, I have a little piece of info on the Battle Beasts in a book at home. I will search it out tomorrow and get back to ya' tomorrow.

I agree with Dez,

the "trainformer" looks "solid"

"In 1987 the first Transformer spin-off was introduced both in japan and in the US. A new race of aliens was introduced to the transformer univers in episode five of the JP Headmaster series. these characters resemble humanoid versions of earth animals and wore armored suits. They live on the planet Beast. [skipping a bunch...] Battle Beasts were never properly introudced into the Transformer universe since by the time they were released the Transformers television show had been canceled [in the US], and the Battle Beast toyline only generated one short-lived comic book series produced by Blackthorne Publishing. Despite the lack of promotion through the comic book and television tie ins, the toy series did well enough to generate a second series of figures."


--David Kolodny-Nagy, Transformers: Botcon '94 Ten Year Retrospective


For years, by the way, this book was often my only glimpse into existence of toys I didn't have. Tantalizing scans of promotional imaging for JP only toys, text-only list of the US G1, and the misguided notion that Wheeljack was a Maserati (dad corrected this blasphemy when it eventually came up in conversation)

We knew so little back then

thats weird I saw part of him at th markets today lol. looks like cheap plastic

Hey, that "Optimus Prime" looking toy is really a Gobot called "Road Ranger". Here is more info on the bot: http://www.toyarchive.com/Gobots/Regula ... anger.html

Hope that helps some!

Kasht wrote:Hey, that "Optimus Prime" looking toy is really a Gobot called "Road Ranger". Here is more info on the bot: http://www.toyarchive.com/Gobots/Regula ... anger.html

Hope that helps some!

Yeah, Ben, I've got about a dozen of him for you, if you find your way down here, lol