question about some knock offs

anna · Post by **anna** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:55 am

waaaay back in the 80s i bought some mictomaster knock offs at the goodwill(the quality was good they were cheep i need decepticons) so where are they really from? the concord and the space shuttle look like they can combine

also theres no visable date stamp but help would be mucho appreciatedo

http://photobucket.com/albums/f89/delta ... icroko.jpg

http://photobucket.com/albums/f89/delta ... roko-1.jpg

Aaron Hong · Post by **Aaron Hong** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:16 am

You're not far off. Those are three of the six Micromasters that combine to form Sixwing - problem is all the actual combining is done with the Sixwing body parts.

http://www.tfw2005.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/686

The one here is in Decepticon colors but otherwise it's the same dude.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y281/g ... riesIV.jpg

Here's a newer version, Sixwing's first US release as Micromaster Superion.

anna · Post by **anna** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:50 pm

oh cool thankies for the info! (smiles)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:15 pm

Aaron Hong wrote:You're not far off. Those are three of the six Micromasters that combine to form Sixwing - problem is all the actual combining is done with the Sixwing body parts.

As is the case with all the Micromaster Combiners?

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y281/g ... riesIV.jpg

Here's a newer version, Sixwing's first US release as Micromaster Superion.

Yeah, I've got Micromaster Superion, released in the UK as Cybertron rather than Universe.

Also got Micromaster Devastator (Energon, don't know if it was in the US as Universe, tho) and aside from the Micromasters, the Head shape and the colour scheme, the combiner parts seem identical.

So, is this the case for all the Micromaster Combiners?

Osku · Post by **Osku** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:28 am

There are five different combining Micromaster groups (of which one is a slight remold). Takara released those first in 90's. In 2003 those molds were reissued, in some cases in a bit different colours and also as "chase" versions (except for Sixliner). Lately Hasbro has released these groups in Energon/Cybertron (Europe) or in Universe (N-A) lines.

Combiner parts are partly same, partly different. As a thumb rule body and trousers are always the same. Head and fists are slightly different.

Sixliner -> reissue Sixliner.
http://mykooltoyz.tripod.com/sixliner.html

Sixturbo -> reissue Sixturbo, chase version; black -> "Defensor" by Hasbro.
http://www.tfu.info/1992/Cybertron/Sixt ... xturbo.htm

Sixbuilder -> reissue Sixbuilder, chase version; Destron, constructicon colours -> "Devastator" by Hasbro, constructicon colours, much more detailed than Takara's chase version.
http://www.tfu.info/1992/Cybertron/Sixb ... uilder.htm

Sixwing -> reissue Sixwing (Destron, new colours), chase version; white -> "Superion" by Hasbro (new colours).
http://www.tfu.info/1992/Cybertron/Sixwing/sixwing.htm

Sixtrain -> reissue Sixtrain, chase version; Sixtrain (red) -> "Rail Racer" by Hasbro.
http://www.tfu.info/1992/Cybertron/Sixt ... xtrain.htm

Sometimes also Landcross is counted as Micromasters, propably because it was reissued at same time as MM combiners.
http://www.tfu.info/1989/Cybertron/Land ... dcross.htm

There's also an exhaustive review of Rail Racer or more prcisely an essay of the MM combiner reissues on Tfarchive.
http://tfarchive.com/toys/reviews/uni_railracer.php

Nice little toys, especially if you like Micromasters. Still missing Sixliner, Sixtrain (or Rail Racer) and Superion.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:12 pm

Interesting.

I may have to go looking for "Defensor" and "Rail Racer" at some point, then.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 3:23 pm

I've got the Devastator recolour, which is pretty sweet - he's just about to scale with my knock-off "World's Smallest Defensor", which is also just about in scale with the WSTF Prime and Prowl - rather a nice little diorama going on there now

anna · Post by **anna** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 3:22 pm

i too have defensor and devestator and they rock(but then ive always been a micromaster fan) and im working on getting the train(tankor,midnight express and overload still needed) so you know im going for superion!

Aaron Hong · Post by **Aaron Hong** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:57 pm

The ones I got are all knockoff - for some reason they don't have a Sixturbo in this line, but they did blow up his mold to the size of Predaking this one time. I'm serious.

anna · Post by **anna** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 4:35 pm

wowsers uncle gadget! i dont suppose you have a pic of that do you?

Osku · Post by **Osku** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 4:50 pm

Aaron Hong wrote:The ones I got are all knockoff - for some reason they don't have a Sixturbo in this line, but they did blow up his mold to the size of Predaking this one time. I'm serious.

I've known about the right sized KOs, got Sixwing (I think), but haven't seen big ones. How's the quality?

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:24 pm

I saw lots of Sixbuilder KOs - in originals colors - in the size of Defensor and the 86 Gestalts lately.

Aaron Hong · Post by **Aaron Hong** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 4:05 am

Osku wrote:
Aaron Hong wrote:The ones I got are all knockoff - for some reason they don't have a Sixturbo in this line, but they did blow up his mold to the size of Predaking this one time. I'm serious.
I've known about the right sized KOs, got Sixwing (I think), but haven't seen big ones. How's the quality?

Haven't seen one out of package, but the colors I remember were pretty funky, and I think it came with an alternate head piece modelled after something non-TF.

It's well out of circulation now, but this oversized Sixbuild I tracked down is about the same size.

http://www.geocities.com/anacacho_firef ... views.html

Osku · Post by **Osku** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:51 am

Looks nice. Thanks for the link.

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question about some knock offs

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