Find of the Show!!! Marchon Road Bots Carrying Case
The Marchon Road Bots from 1984 (Loadorr review here, Hookorr review here, and Cementorr review here) are one of those lines I love, so imagine my surprise when I stumbled across this Road Bots vinyl carrying case today . . . complete with the three toys inside!!!
I am ridiculously excited about finding this. I never even knew there was a carrying case for the line.
Omg, you just made my morning. I got a blue version of the Cementorr and I was wondering last week when I was doing my annual cleaning of what it was as I got it when I was a kid and never did any research to be honest.
Seriously thanks, now off to Ebay to find some more!
@Marvin Malkowski Jr – Good luck! These don’t appear for sale all that often. I had a few as a kid and about five/six years ago I managed to finally track down the official name for the line.
This is one of those really obscure and unloved toy lines I’d personally love to track down the owners. Someone owns the rights to these; I know it’s stupid, but I’d be overjoyed if I could acquire all of the rights to these.
I have a soft spot for things like myself. I did not know what this red owl/robot I had as a kid wasfor years and it turned out it is a Convertor. I have been tracking down other items in that line now. This one I literally was wondering about last week. I have a feeling these are going to be flea market finds for some reason and there is not a lot of them where I live.
Awesome find! I love the non-Transformers robot toys of the ’80s and have a little collection myself. Marchon made a lot of fun stuff, such as these and the Mysterians.
Phillip, I would LOVE it if you got the rights to Marchon’s stuff! There is such mystery and cool designs and untapped potential there. These were the toys that so many of us owned back then but had no idea what there were. They usually ended up being off-screen denizens of Cybertron for a lot of us, I think, and your imagination could run wild because they had no fiction established in our minds. Road Bots, Mysterians, etc. did have some pretty awesome card art and hints of a back-story, though. So there was some effort put forth. I don’t know how many fans feel the same way, but I’d certainly be interested in what you did with them. They’re the also-rans, but they’re fantastic.
Fantastic find- I remember donating a couple road bots in 3rd grade for toys for tots. I really wanted to keep them.
Does anyone have any info on the Marchon Battle Bots? These were friction powered (or remote controlled) wheeled robots from the same time (85-86) with a smaller robot pilot on the back. I spent years trying to identify them and finally found one on ebay (that search brought me here). For being in a $2 bin at kaybee it was still one of my favorite toys.
I don’t have any information other than I owned one MIB up until recently and they’re exactly what you describe. In fact, I wonder if the one on eBay is the one I sold to a local toy shop. lol
I have no idea why i did not think of this earlier but does a remake of this line not scream Glyos system…