![]() This pin often shears off, causing his legs to fall out of his body. Windcharger’s chrome upper legs are held in to his torso by a single (shared) thin pin running between the red car body and gray chassis. Rubsign location: None (1984), or right side of car hood (1985) Collector Notes Vacuum-metalized “chrome” thighs form the remainder of his decoration.ĭate stamp location: Gray leg pieces behind knees of robot, additional stamp on inside of right arm (late 1985) He features silver paint on his fairly nondescript mouthplate, and a deep black eye-band (which is actually a separately molded piece set in behind his face). He features sparse sticker decoration, amounting to two Autobot symbols. ![]() His arms have small tracks below the shoulder that allow his arms to tilt inward toward his body, or slide down for a lower shoulder mount. His arms pull out from the sides, his legs swing down from the rear of the vehicle, and his face is molded directly to the bottom of his chassis plate. Like all the former Microchange Mini CAR “big vehicles,” he also shares a similar, very simple, transformation scheme. Widncharger’s alternate mode is a red Pontiac Firebird Trans Am distinguished by his large, smooth plastic wheels held on by decorated rivets, a simulated T-top roof, and rear window louvers. ![]() Windcharger was eventually filed as a US Patent (which incidentally shows the retooling on the hood for 1986 Tailgate), titled Reconfigurable toy vehicle (aka Transformers G1 Windcharger) was filed on Octo(U.S. However, recent discoveries published by YouTube’s Chris McFeely, indicate that Windcharger was likely designed for Knickerbocker Toys’s Mysterians: Mobile Force as a toy called Speedar, before Knickerbocker went out of business and presumably sold the designs to Hasbro or Takara, while selling some other non-vehicle Mysterians designs to Marchon. Windcharger’s mold was originally thought to have been designed by Hideaki Yoke as part of Takara’s 1983 Microman: Microchange line as MC04 Mini CAR Robo 06: Trans Am. #Robotek mini keychain movie#Movie - Revenge of the Fallen (ROTF) (75). ![]()
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