![]() Takara went BIG for their Masterpiece line. One thing I did have to get used to is the height. The level of detail seems amped up from what might’ve been in an 80s cartoon, but I can’t say if they took liberties or not. As a fan of the toys, I don’t have a lot of memories of the cartoon and I can’t say that the sculpt is accurate. The color is the last of my concern, so it’s noted, and we can jump in to the figure. The imported Battle Robo was a very dark blue tank named Tank. In Battle Robo’s case, the most notable difference is the color. This means the toys won’t be exactly like you remember, but they’re close enough unless you’re a stickler. They licensed toys based on the anime Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos. So a GoBots revival would just take a lot of cooperation and profit sharing between companies that don’t share.Īction Toys though, they have this figured out. The molds then belong to Bandai, while the names and characters belonged to Tonka (and were later acquired by Hasbro, leaving some names used as Transformers). I may have this wrong, but Tonka licensed the toys from Bandai and then gave them original names and characters. Granted when I call these MP Gobots, these are not based on the toy line. And now, 30 years later, I’m just going to treat them the same. There was no snooty competition between them and my Transformers. When Machine Robo debuted, I tried to write it off under that ban, but I’m weak. As part of my 2016 reevaluation, I recognized that I spend too much on toys and the first way too slow things down was to vow not to buy into new toy lines. Until then, let’s dig into Tank… I mean, Battle Robo. I just don’t have the time I used to have – and I don’t know that if toy blogging is the best use of the time I do have… I’ve got a whole Truetorial about it. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about you readers and IAT. Each time I get the time to post a review, many of you post your encouragement and gratitude that I’m posting again – I love you guys and I appreciate that. Before I dig into this review, I should clarify that I don’t feel like “I’m back”. ![]()
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