Spotted Online – Moto-Bot Toys at GanguStars
GanguStars finishes out cheap toy month with a mid-eighties sales flyer from MC Toys. There’s more shown on the flyer than what I’ve shared below, but once I saw those Moto-Bot toys I had no choice but to pull the two toy flyer images into Photoshop and merge them into a single piece.
Great image, and seeing this makes me ask: Why hasn’t anyone assembled a book dedicated to the off-brand transforming robot toys of the eighties? Not Transformers. Not GoBots. Instead, focus on the Moto-Bot, Convertors, Zybots, and other cheapo toylines that hit American toy shelves during the transforming robot craze of 1984 and 1985. I’d buy that book.
For more on Moto-Bot toys you can always check the reviews I’ve posted here in the past:
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Not a book, but counter-x.net has a great online archive of also ran transforming toys
http://counter-x.net/toys/index.html
I had quite a few of these knocking around with my Transformers, Go-Bots and Robo Force.