Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images

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Uberfan Monzo's website, The Obscure Transformers Website hosts some very interesting images from a catalog pre-dating 1985's Toy Fair. In these images we can see some early test colours for some familiar faces:

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Re: Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images (1159438)
Posted by Chaoslock on December 20th, 2010 @ 2:21pm CST

Wow, those minibots look like early protos.

Re: Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images (1159474)
Posted by Optimum Supreme on December 20th, 2010 @ 3:42pm CST

lol, poor Seaspray only has one prop, and it only has one blade.

EDIT: Oops, blowing up the picture, I see he does indeed have two props, but still with just one blade each.

Re: Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images (1159514)
Posted by SN95 Cobra R on December 20th, 2010 @ 4:35pm CST

Those other links on that site are linked wrong. 86 went to 1996 and kept getting worse.

Re: Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images (1159577)
Posted by craggy on December 20th, 2010 @ 6:01pm CST

Yeah I don't think all of those Mini-bots are the final ones. I think at the very least there's some details not yet added.

I do like the Coneheads' colours. Dirge looks more purple-y, Thrust's rocking the metal silver and Black Ramjet! (well ok, dark grey, but still)

Re: Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images (1159579)
Posted by Amelie on December 20th, 2010 @ 6:06pm CST

Those coneheads are so sexy I could make love to them. :BOOM:

Interesting to note the black Hoist too, since the IGA release was a modified green Trailbreaker. Almost comes full circle.

*EDIT* ROFL - "make move to"? "make love to" :lol:

Re: Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images (1159582)
Posted by MightyMagnus78 on December 20th, 2010 @ 6:09pm CST

craggy wrote:I do like the Coneheads' colours. Dirge looks more purple-y, Thrust's rocking the metal silver and Black Ramjet! (well ok, dark grey, but still)

Me to! I think they actually look better than the final colour schemes.

Re: Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images (1159597)
Posted by fenrir72 on December 20th, 2010 @ 6:27pm CST

A lot of the links in the American toy catalog section are down. It skips to Beastwars in the 1986 link.

Re: Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images (1159712)
Posted by Dagon on December 20th, 2010 @ 10:26pm CST

I like the Coneheads alot, but I don't think that one could ever have enough Seekers.

Re: Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images (1159793)
Posted by Samsonator on December 21st, 2010 @ 2:06am CST

Anyone else find it odd that though these minibots are clearly not even proper prototypes, just mock-up sculpts, they're all in their proper colours despite previous images of their final molds with differing "early" colour schemes? (Specifically Powerglide and Cosmos)

Re: Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images (1159844)
Posted by Mykltron on December 21st, 2010 @ 5:02am CST

Those minibots ARE prototypes.

It's nice to see that they couldn't even get the transformations right back then either! (Warpath)

Re: Pre-Toy Fair 1985 Catalog Images (1160047)
Posted by Samsonator on December 21st, 2010 @ 1:47pm CST

Those minibots may well be prototypes, true... but the detailing on them is clearly not molded, rather sculpted (especially noticeable on Beachcomber's hood/legs) and I was merely using it to point out that their final mold versions (using the same mold as the finished figures) had been seen in other catalog pictures in differing "early" colours, while these incomplete sculpts are in their final colours.