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News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 12:45 am

Burn wrote:huh ... he's squat and fat.

What was his English name? Burn?

He was never released outside of Japan, much like the figure he was based on: Flash Titan from Choushinsei Flashman, a Super Sentai series.

DX Flash Titan on ToyBoxDX.

Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos had several other toys "borrowed" from other Bandai lines, much like how Microman "borrows" from Transformers :lol:

Examples include:

DX Baikanfu from DX Gordian (Toshi Gordian)
Variagle-X from Big Scale Jaguar Vulcan (Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan)
The Dash Robo from the Winch Robo line (aka Gobots Secret Riders)

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 12:54 am

Wow, snared two who didn't get the joke. Way to ruin the fun kids!

News Credits: 439 · by **Sabrblade** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 12:55 am

Burn wrote:Wow, snared two who didn't get the joke. Way to ruin the fun kids!

It's almost 2am here right now. Sue me. I-)

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 1:21 am

Burn wrote:Wow, snared two who didn't get the joke. Way to ruin the fun kids!

I laughed, but really, so many transforming figures back then had the derpiest proportions, if one was made to look like you, I'm sure it'd look much better than most of the figs back then :lol:

I mean, you couldn't get any worse than 'Tiny-Head-McTorso-Elbows' over here:

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 5:54 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Burn wrote:Wow, snared two who didn't get the joke. Way to ruin the fun kids!
It's almost 2am here right now. Sue me.

Blame the fact there's one language that does not translate well on the internet: Jokinese.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 7:34 pm

I think it was fairly obvious I was taking the piss out of myself. >:oP

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 10:49 pm

Burn wrote:I think it was fairly obvious I was taking the piss out of myself.

That's the only person we can make fun of, right?

I mean ourselves, not Burn... :-s

But, part of me wants to create a Wiki article of a bot named Burn now...

(P.S. I wonder how many of us that would actually describe, eh Burn? I'm taller than average, but the rest was pretty much spot on...)

News Credits: 96 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 10:59 pm

All right, kids, back on topic. Miscreants will get a waring. [-(

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 11:16 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:All right, kids, back on topic. Miscreants will get a waring.

Like you will if you keep psuedo-modding even though you've been told a couple of times in the past not to? >:oP

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Sun Dec 20, 2015 7:37 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote: much like how Microman "borrows" from Transformers

These guys look GREAT! Especially Turbo. (or whatever his Machine Robo name is.)

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sun Dec 20, 2015 1:39 pm

Cobotron wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote: much like how Microman "borrows" from Transformers

It's true tho. In 2000 or so, Microman borrowed the G1 Rocket Base, AM Prime's Armored Convoy and both G2 Laser Cycles

Cobotron wrote:These guys look GREAT! Especially Turbo. (or whatever his Machine Robo name is.)

Super Car Robo. Most Machine Robo had rather generic names, especially the smaller 600 series. Only the Devil Invaders, the Battle Hackers and the "borrowed" toys had more unique names.

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Sun Dec 20, 2015 1:53 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:It's true tho. In 2000 or so, Microman borrowed the G1 Rocket Base, AM Prime's Armored Convoy and both G2 Laser Cycles

I know. It occured to me as soon as I posted. TFs owed them one though. :-P

Super Car Robo.

News Credits: 439 · by **Sabrblade** » Sun Dec 20, 2015 6:42 pm

Cobotron wrote:
Super Car Robo.

An alternate parsing could be "Supercar Robo", emphasizing that he's a "Robo" that turns into a "Supercar" rather than him been the "Super" version of a "Car Robo".

News Credits: 3 · by **bvzxa** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 10:56 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Burn wrote:huh ... he's squat and fat.

What was his English name? Burn?
He might be chunky, but he sure is a biggun'.

As for his English name, he wasn't in the GoBots line, so he has no English name.

He was originally a mold from Bandai's Choushinsei Flashman series (the 10th Super Sentai series), and was added to the Machine Robo line when MR got relaunched in Japan in 1986 for the Revenge of Chronos anime, which came about after the GoBots cartoon and toyline were dying down in the West. By this point, Bandai was fully heading the MR line, while Tonka's GoBots line was on its last leg, so Pro Truck Racer remains one of the many Japanese-only figures that came about after GoBots ended.

Finally I get to meet a person who knows about Machine Robo RoC. Most of the episodes had beautiful animation. I have the entire series fansubbed years ago. I also have the rare series Machine Robo Battle Hackers as well. It's a semi-decent sequel and many of the cast return though the animation quality and story dwindles as it progresses. However Blue Jet and rod Drill are not the main stars as well as both Rom and Leina being absent completely accept for flashbacks

News Credits: 3 · by **bvzxa** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 11:01 pm

rare series and toys as well

Website · by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 5:51 pm

Thanks for the pics, Sabrblade. Not gonna lie, still cheesed there's no updated Pathfinder. :-x

But the rest of these, really awesome-looking.

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 12:59 am

I inquired at amiami, they are non committal/ not confirming if they will carry this line.

News Credits: 8 · by **NuclearConvoy** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 6:28 am

bvzxa wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Burn wrote:huh ... he's squat and fat.

What was his English name? Burn?
He might be chunky, but he sure is a biggun'.

As for his English name, he wasn't in the GoBots line, so he has no English name.

He was originally a mold from Bandai's Choushinsei Flashman series (the 10th Super Sentai series), and was added to the Machine Robo line when MR got relaunched in Japan in 1986 for the Revenge of Chronos anime, which came about after the GoBots cartoon and toyline were dying down in the West. By this point, Bandai was fully heading the MR line, while Tonka's GoBots line was on its last leg, so Pro Truck Racer remains one of the many Japanese-only figures that came about after GoBots ended.

Finally I get to meet a person who knows about Machine Robo RoC. Most of the episodes had beautiful animation. I have the entire series fansubbed years ago. I also have the rare series Machine Robo Battle Hackers as well. It's a semi-decent sequel and many of the cast return though the animation quality and story dwindles as it progresses. However Blue Jet and rod Drill are not the main stars as well as both Rom and Leina being absent completely accept for flashbacks

I've been looking to get Battle Hackers for a long time. Never found it subbed. Where did you get it?

News Credits: 8 · by **NuclearConvoy** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 9:28 am

fenrir72 wrote:I inquired at amiami, they are non committal/ not confirming if they will carry this line.

Do we even have a known release date?

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 10:34 am

NuclearConvoy wrote:
fenrir72 wrote:I inquired at amiami, they are non committal/ not confirming if they will carry this line.

Do we even have a known release date?

We sure do, on the previous page: February 2016.

News Credits: 8 · by **NuclearConvoy** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 10:56 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
NuclearConvoy wrote:
fenrir72 wrote:I inquired at amiami, they are non committal/ not confirming if they will carry this line.

Do we even have a known release date?

We sure do, on the previous page: February 2016.

Ouch my aching wallet...

News Credits: 3 · by **bvzxa** » Wed Dec 30, 2015 3:54 am

NuclearConvoy wrote:
bvzxa wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Burn wrote:huh ... he's squat and fat.

What was his English name? Burn?
He might be chunky, but he sure is a biggun'.

As for his English name, he wasn't in the GoBots line, so he has no English name.

He was originally a mold from Bandai's Choushinsei Flashman series (the 10th Super Sentai series), and was added to the Machine Robo line when MR got relaunched in Japan in 1986 for the Revenge of Chronos anime, which came about after the GoBots cartoon and toyline were dying down in the West. By this point, Bandai was fully heading the MR line, while Tonka's GoBots line was on its last leg, so Pro Truck Racer remains one of the many Japanese-only figures that came about after GoBots ended.

Finally I get to meet a person who knows about Machine Robo RoC. Most of the episodes had beautiful animation. I have the entire series fansubbed years ago. I also have the rare series Machine Robo Battle Hackers as well. It's a semi-decent sequel and many of the cast return though the animation quality and story dwindles as it progresses. However Blue Jet and rod Drill are not the main stars as well as both Rom and Leina being absent completely accept for flashbacks

I've been looking to get Battle Hackers for a long time. Never found it subbed. Where did you get it?

I only have 5 episodes of Battle Hackers fan subbed from a guy from NYC who used to advertise fansubs for Dragon Ball GT back in the late '90s. I bought the first 18 episodes of Machine Robo and he sent Battle Hackers as a bonus on VHS. I now have the whole series of Revenge of Chronos fan subbed, and Battle Hackers is raw

News Credits: 2 · by **Mr Skram** » Thu Jan 21, 2016 11:04 pm

william-james88 wrote:

Just creeping around the forums, don't mind me.

I feel like some of these molds would have fit pretty darn well in the CW/UW lines if fitted with the combiner ratchet deal and a 5mm port for the HFGs. Looking at Spay C in particular since the announcement of Takara's Blast Off.

Did anything ever come of these guys or is it yet to be seen? Because they're pretty rad. I don't get too much into Gobots, but I do have a complete Puzzler on my shelves.

News Credits: 439 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jan 21, 2016 11:06 pm

Mr Skram wrote:Did anything ever come of these guys or is it yet to be seen? Because they're pretty rad. I don't get too much into Gobots, but I do have a complete Puzzler on my shelves.

They're not out yet. Not till February.

News Credits: 2 · by **Mr Skram** » Thu Jan 21, 2016 11:10 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Mr Skram wrote:Did anything ever come of these guys or is it yet to be seen? Because they're pretty rad. I don't get too much into Gobots, but I do have a complete Puzzler on my shelves.
They're not out yet. Not till February.

Cool. I'll have to keep an eye out for them. I really dig the jets.