(Mazda Familia 1500XG, only available on Cliffjumper cards) (Porsche 924, available in red or yellow) (Rumors persist of his being available on Bumblebee cards as well, but no carded samples have been found.) Exactly how the hell this happened is still a mystery, though it is possible that there were early plans to have the toy be a full-fledged part of the line. The toy that would eventually become known as " Bumper" did not have its own name or card, but came on Cliffjumper cards. A seventh toy was also available briefly in the early releases of the line. This change was probably made because the smaller but deeper bubbles used for vehicle-mode packaging were more prone to separating from the cards by accident than the later-revised larger robot-mode bubbles.Īlthough the official catalogs and the box artwork depict Bumblebee in yellow and Cliffjumper in red, both toys were actually available in both colors. This changed to robot mode packaging with a picture of the vehicle mode added under the character art, which the assortment would retain throughout the line. The initial run of the Minicars were packaged with the toys in their alternate modes, as the rest of the line's toys were.
Part of the first year of Hasbro's The Transformers product in the US, the Mini Vehicles were originally known as " Autobot Minicars", versus the larger " Autobot Cars". Even their "defining" trait, being smaller than "normal" Cybertronians, is rarely flagged up outside of one particular individual, especially since the introduction of even smaller Cybertronians like Micromasters and Mini-Cons. They will occasionally show up in group scenes in a vague form of advertisement, but they're almost never treated as more than just a group of individual bots who happen to be here at this time right now. They generally have super deformed proportions in vehicle mode, since in the Microchange backstory they represented robots that became small toy cars (specifically, they were meant to look like Choro-Q / Penny Racer cars).įictionally, little to nothing has been made of this group as a group. Many were redecoed or retooled from the earlier Micro Change line. The Mini Vehicles (also known as Minicars, Minibots, Mini-Autobots, and Robocars) are a group of small, simple, and inexpensive toys, premiering in the original 1984 toyline. Messengers with meaning! Whatever that means.
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