Bonkers! Robot-Watch Offer from 1986
If we go all of the way back to Marvel’s Solomon Kane comics of 1986 we find this full-page ad from Bonkers! candy offering us a transforming robot watch for only $3.95 . . . and three labels from Bonkers! candy. Awesome fun, guys, and yet one more example of how today’s comic books are failing us.
No toys in cereal. No fun ads or promotions in comic books. Did we lose a war?
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That’s a bootleg of the Takara MC-06 Micro Change Watch Robo (which they also sold abroad as a Kronoform watch), one of the most bootlegged pre-Transformers Takara toys of the 1980s.
In official Microman Micro Change lore, the Watch Robo along with the Camera Robo (later AKA Reflector) were built in defense of increasing attacks from the enemy Acroyear and with their help, it was possible to finally locate the extra-dimensional Acroyear fortress and begin planning a counter-attack.
I used to have this watch! From Bonkers candy!!
@Bryan Wilkinson – Was it really a bootleg and not a license? Weird that a larger company would blatantly bootleg something. And thanks! My Microman knowledge is minimal so it’s always fun to learn something new.
@Paul – Did you mail order the watch, or get it some other way?
I love that Helen Hunt wears one of these Kronoform watches in Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!
http://brandedinthe80s.com/12030/i-think-i-have-a-crush-on-lynne-stone