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(Sorry, out of stock...SOLD for $45.00) GoBots "Spoiler" Transforming Robot, by Tonka. Back in 1983, a line of Popy and Bandai transforming robots were licensed to the Tonka Company in the US to be sold as...the GoBots! These were great little pocket-sized robots...well-made, diecast metal, highly detailed...but whereas they got the jump on the Takara Diaclone toys to be marketed in the US by almost a year, they were eternally doomed to second-place status when the Transformers began to be marketed...even though they were all from basically the same origins back in Japan. The Machine Robo "600 Series" toys, which became the GoBots, oftentimes involved more diecast metal than those smaller Takara entries (which were mostly plastic) that became the first Transformers. Here is one of the most popular entries in the GoBot line, "Spoiler", an "enemy robot sports car" (actually a Lamborghini "Countach", complete with markings). Spoiler used to be Machine Robo MR-21 "Countach Robo" in Japan, where there existed a black version of this toy...this one in The Pop Top Shop is in beautiful red. This one is MINT-CONDITION, unopened, STILL ON ITS ORIGINAL CARD...from over a quarter-century ago!! Out of stock.
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