Convertors
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| Type | Action figures |
|---|---|
| Company | Select |
| Country | United States |
| Availability | 1984–1984 |
| Materials | Plastic |
| Features | Robot figures |
The Convertors were a line of action figures made by Japanese toy company MARK and localized in North America by New York-based company Select in the 1980s.
Often compared to the more famous Gobots and Transformers, the Convertors were a line of toys which came out at about the same time and also featured transforming robots.
The Convertors licensed some of their toy designs from Bandai just as was done for the Transformers, meaning some of the toys looked very similar.[1][2] The molds for Convertors were later knocked off by other toy companies.[3] Convertors toys were featured in a display in the 1985 J. C. Penney Christmas catalog.[4]
Fiction
The Convertors toys featured the conflict between heroic and evil factions, in this case the heroic Defenders (and their Avarian allies) and the evil Maladroids (and their Insectors allies).[5] In the original Japanese the Avarians and Insectors were billed as rival factions Bird Robo vs Zectron (バードロボ対ゼクトロン).
