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Post by bill on Sept 22, 2022 0:55:17 GMT -5
Lizar is an ever elusive robostrux. Besides being pitured on the back of that box Legs and Rado instruction booklet have it listed like so. I have bee. Collecting Robostrux since the mid 80's and have never seen one come up for sale. I have a legs mib but finding lizar is impossible!
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Post by Maethius on Sept 22, 2022 12:59:48 GMT -5
I have only seen Lizar a couple of times... ever! I believe Lionel managed to land one as a holy grail kit.
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Post by bill on Sept 23, 2022 12:25:47 GMT -5
BTW my Rado is on the red team not the blue. As far as the box confusion it is a matter of 85 versus 86. I have many of the small windups still mib, some in both types of boxes. In fact Stang in the 85 maroon box is a red side zoid however it's 86 in the darker box with the diorama on the back is a blue side. Another funny thing was Radox boxes are in 2 different sizes but identical on all sides just smaller more compact. In fact I store the smaller box inside the larger since my smaller is mib and larger was built. I have all built exceptions of legz(still mib),glidoler(mib mint in bag no box), lizar(unfound yet),Fangz(unfound yet). Don't get me started on Technozoids. Back when they were out I was on the phone frequently with hasbro reps. There are ones that completely disappeared from the planned line. Example: There was going to be released Technozoids called Thunder Tritops. I assume Mad Thunder much later on. I wonder if I can hunt down the paperwork(notes) I had from my conversations with them. At least 6 life moves ago so unless I run across it when looking thru the collection i doubt I still have it. There were 3 others besides the thunder that were canceled. They were chased to Canada and then lost. Never seen, never been up for sale just simply disappeared......I thought I said don't get me started.....guess I'm self winding!
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Post by Maethius on Sept 23, 2022 13:07:19 GMT -5
I have that one, too; Red Mutant Army version of Rado. I remember being surprised at seeing the Japanese catalogs where Rado was actually a Helic design. I got Stang (still one of my favorites of all time!) in the "Red Team" Robostrux desert colors, which I still prefer to most of the other kit colors these days.
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Post by bill on Sept 23, 2022 16:02:59 GMT -5
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Post by Maethius on Sept 27, 2022 13:15:33 GMT -5
YES! I actually get a more nostalgic feel for those colors than the OJR ones sometimes! For me, the worst part of the newer releases is the colors... I miss the team or national color themes, even though they can get repetitious. Original Robostrux are still some of my favorite! Look at the limited edition Desert Liger... that's essentially an original "red team" look!
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Post by bill on Oct 2, 2022 21:53:46 GMT -5
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Post by Maethius on Oct 3, 2022 13:39:34 GMT -5
Yes, every once in a while you will see repaints or part swaps claiming they are the prototypes from these catalog images. If they were, Lionel would already own them!
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Post by bill on Oct 3, 2022 15:19:52 GMT -5
Yes, every once in a while you will see repaints or part swaps claiming they are the prototypes from these catalog images. If they were, Lionel would already own them! I keep my eye out constantly for my missing Robostrux and Technozoids final but canceled run ones. If ever seen I give it an effort to try and add them to my fold.....and unload the fold, when it's there, in my wallet! 😆 As I expressed in other threads I was in contact at least 6 times with hasbro reps towards the end of the Technozoids line pumping them for info. It was how I knew about Thunder Tritops and the few others. Even with this almost constant bugging of them on the phone I wasn't able to purchase the rest, but was told they would up in canada. Now days with the instant access of information I now know exactly where both Hasbro facilities are located at in Canada. Had I this kind of info back then I'd have likely been jumping the border and raiding a warehouse. 'Do you have anything to declare?' Boarder Patrol.... Me 'um Yeah I got what I came for and am one happy geek! Don't look in the trunk!' He looks in the trunk expecting to find drugs or what not and sees a huge catch of the missing technos.
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Post by Snowflake on Oct 4, 2022 13:41:38 GMT -5
Redthunder.. Would have been awesome to have that
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Post by bill on Oct 4, 2022 15:41:42 GMT -5
The pics of the sales rep toy catalogs have sent me on a quest to find copies for my very own. I reached out to a guy selling such catalogs in Ebay. He needed more to go on. So I gave him what I knew. Does anyone here know where the pages come from. Year, catalog, any clues to help hunt them down. Hasbro rep catalogs or Kenner rep catalogs any clarification helps. The guy I'm in contact with may come thru still I will keep you posted. I'm super stoked if I could get my hands on these! By boxes my technozoids year was 1994. But the canceled line would likely be the following year.
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Post by bill on Oct 4, 2022 21:57:02 GMT -5
Update. He has looked and has nothing mentioning the Technozoids line. He informed me that Kenner was bought by Hasbro in 1991 and stopped putting out it's own catalogs in 95. Armed with this info. I did an ebay search for Kenner toy catalog from 1994. Found them they did have Technozoids in it. Purchased 1. However not the one with the pages I am hunting for. I will continue my search. Someday I may just find them. Anyway that's the update on my quest.
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Post by bill on Oct 5, 2022 10:57:32 GMT -5
Further can anyone tell me more about this one as well. The very 1st I've ever heard of it.
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Post by Maethius on Oct 5, 2022 17:00:30 GMT -5
I've never seen the Saicurtis variant, but I have seen all of the lower ones, I believe.
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Post by bill on Oct 5, 2022 18:14:16 GMT -5
I've never seen the Saicurtis variant, but I have seen all of the lower ones, I believe. Until that I've never seen or heard of beetro either. Since all of these were net steals I don't have much to go on. Maybe I should start a thread about these to try n get more info. Idk
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