JCC Over 30? Help me identify this toy...

Hello JCCers.

Over the past few months, I have been clearing the old UKS ancestral home. (My mother and father passed away in quick succession)

As the youngest child, a vast majority of material turned out to be my old toy's books and schoolwork. To have to go through your old paintings, drawings etc is quite an experience, (I even found a signature from "Darth Vader" when he visited our local department store, Debenhams, back in 1983 advertising ROTJ.)

Anyway, obviously as a terrible horder, I have boxed everything up and stored in it a big yellow storage facility.

Now, I have a reputation for having an almost photographiv memory for toys and cartoons of the 1980's. So whilst sorting my multitude of toys out, I could pretty quickly identify various guns and pieces and place them in an appropriate pile.

Except a couple. A couple I cannot remember the range (or even if it was a range!)

Particulary this fellow:





http://imgur.com/HmJGmROm - If I have failed to link correctly!
He is missing an arm and is (at a guess) Japanese. He also had a dark green fellow with a sharp head of a similar style.

Any idea what cartoon/manga/anime or whatever this fellow comes from?

If you do well, my pretties, I may have one or two more to investigate!

UKS

 

Look at what I've found!



Sounds like a knock off of a US rebrand of a Japanese range...

 

Nice thumb you got there.

 

Clearly this making your day, UK S.

 

I dunno, "Robot Changers" just sounds like a bootleg brand.

 

Do an Ashens-style review of it.

 

This is the actual one I had!



To quote from toyboxdx:

"SUPER DIMENSIONAL CENTURY ORGUSS
07/03/83 - 04/08/84
onceived as an indirect sequel to the wildly successful "Super Dimensional Fortress Macross" series, Orguss never managed to achieve the same level of popularity as its predecessor. The story involved the detonation of a prototype weapon that scrambles the very fabric of space and time itself. Stranded on an unstable new Earth assembled from a hodgepodge of alternate realities, hero Katsuragi Kei rebuilds his boring ol' fighter jet into a towering, transforming robot dubbed "Orguss" (the god of war of one of said alternate realities) and launches into an adventure to restore the various dimensions to their original state.
Although created by the same design team responsible for Macross, Orguss' fantasy-heavy story line never seemed to resonate with fans hungry for more realistic science fiction. Takatoku's toys from the series are considered classic expressions of the "perfect transformation" concept, but they're also extremely complex and fragile. Many of the Orguss toys were sold in American toy stores in the 1980's. Several bootlegged English-language boxed versions were also released which are nearly identical to their Takatoku counterparts. Various other bootlegs were also made and versions of the 1/80 "Variable Type" toys were part of Select's "Convertors" toy line."

 

Problem solved. And now I have bought a new one off eBay.

UKS

 

Okay, good, I was not going insane when I was looking at all the mech designs from Macross, Mospeada, and Southern Cross trying to figure out if it was any of them. ****ing Orguss. There's a deep cut.

 

I like how your initial problem begat a wholly separate problem. The Chinese and/or Germans probably have a word for that.

Amazing.

 

Yak Shaving? http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving

Or perhaps Reverse Yak Shaving?

Kay Shaving?

UKS

 

It has opened up an entire new box for packing though. "Anime/Manga related Toys".

I *had* to split it off from the Transformers, but now this is causing me physical pain... because where I do put this guy?

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2i7ahhx&s=5#.U_M3Kl7XGUA



(Photo stolen from tfw2005)

UKS

 

Omega Supreme!

(Albeit an bootleg-knockoff version, but it's Omega Supreme nonetheless....)

 

Not a bootleg! It was released in UK (and I assume Europe) under the Grandstand proto TF range, Converters!

They got the license from the original Japanese manufacturers, which is why we never got Omega Supreme.

UKS

 

the omega supreme toy was the omega supreme of letdowns.

 

Well, if you have "Shattered Glass" Transformers toys, he'd be perfect for "Shattered Glass" Omega Supreme. Otherwise, just use him an Omega Sentinel/Dark Guardian. You can buy Autobot logo stickers and slap them on him.

Right. Same thing happened with Sky Lynx who came from the same brand. Certain "Generation 1" toys from 1984-85 had different colors before Hasbro got a hold of them.

 

Yeah, I know some foreign versions of G1 Transformers had different colors and such before Hasbro got a hold of them for U.S. distribution (the Japanese version of Blaster was blue and yellow, and doubled as a real working AM radio!), but I just never really saw that colored version of Omega Supreme before.

 

jp, you heathen.

 

Still. He should get points for having Bristol council bins for UKS.

 

It pleases me to know I'm not the only hoarding-prone JCCer.

Gotta love those Japanese names.

 

It even looks like my bins! (Sainsbury bags ahoy)

I am currently in the South of France, bit I've told my wife to lock the doors and beware any strange men*

UKS

*Stranger than me

 

I'm completely normalised.

 

For a Kiwi, Jaypes.

For a Kiwi.

 

That's the standard, no?