Then they created a design that looks like a super cool anime robot. So they used it because they needed to create a new toy that can serve as the protagonist of an anime since they where already planning on making one. My head canon is that I think Bandai chose Gordian to develop Baikanfu is because the original Gordian toy was very popular in Japan for appearing incredibly accurate to the mech from the show and functioning like it’s supposed too without cutting some corners in the design or making some half assed transformation. Probably because they wanted something different from a combiner robot that everyone was doing at the time imo.ĭo any toy companies still do this? Reuse toy molds that where form another show and repurpose for a completely separate thing? It'd be interesting to see how it goes and why Gordian. There might be some obscure info in a magazine that we might be missing. It's another reason why Varigale X was re-used from a Sentai mech in Sun Vulcan. Dinogeist was gonna be Grimlock at one point. You'd be surprised how a lot of unused TF toy ideas became Brave toys. It's another reason why a lot of Brave series characters can get away with similar molds to Diaclone and TF and becoming characters in their own. Toy molds and licenses are very different in some sense. Bandai own it so they can do whatever they want with it. Also I can’t find any article or some piece of info that states that Dino Geist was Battle Stars Grimlock. I know Transformers is famous for reusing molds to the point they break and such, but I just wanted to see how common is this business practice exactly. I remember there was a Batcycle remolded from a Robocop motorcycle too.Īha, I knew there where some other companies that retooled their own toys into other things for different lines. Someone combined Duke Fire with Star Convoy, suggesting that New Rodimus was gonna combine with Star Convoy at one point. The toy Duke Fire had coincidental designs to Fire/New Rodimus which was also a canned TF Battlestars design. The answer is….Transformers after Victory was waning in popularity and toy sales so Takara had no choice but to make an entirely new character out of the mold that was gonna be Battlestars Grimlock. Even Power Rangers has weird oddities such as Ninjakon, Astro Galactic Megazord, X-ray Rescue Megazord, etc. Toylines such as TF Universe, Age of Extinction, Last Knight did have a bunch of toys from TF Energon and other toylines be re-used for convenience. There's even a ton of toys from Transformers toylines that start with Robots in Disguise 2001 that weren't in the anime, were re-used to sell things and it became a huge hit.
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