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The Convertors were a line of action figures made by Japanese toy company MARK and localized in North America by New York-based 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.




History


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. The molds for Convertors were later knocked off by other toy companies. Convertors toys were featured in a display in the 1985 J. C. Penney Christmas catalog.




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). 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).




Toys



Various toys were released in different size classes and price points for the Convertors line.




= Avarians

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Calypso - parrot
Feathers - peacock
Hoot - owl
Rex - blue robot eagle
Robat - black robot bat




= Defenders

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Standard Defenders
Chopper - helicopter - licensed from Special Armored Battalion Dorvack
Fast Track - train engine - licensed from Galactic Whirlwind Sasuraiger
Tanker - tank - licensed from Special Armored Battalion Dorvack
Wheels - off road vehicle - licensed from Special Armored Battalion Dorvack
Motorized Defenders
Argonaut - boat
Atlantis - boat
Cpt. Nemo - boat
Neptune - boat
Super Defenders
D.A. Tona - white car
Indy- blue and white car - similar to Chō Kōsoku Galvion
Monty Carlo - blue car
X - red car
Jumbo Defenders
Bull - red bulldozer
Mini-Bots
City - red Honda City Turbo - licensed from Gokin Robo Car City Robo, similar to the Diaclone Skids toy.
Sports - silver Toyota Soarer - licensed from Gokin Robo Car Soarer Robo
Van - black Onebox Nissan Vanette - licensed from Gokin Robo Car Ace Robo, similar to the Diaclone Ironhide toy.
Wagon - blue Toyota Hilux - licensed from Gokin Robo Car Land Cruiser Robo, similar to the Diaclone Trailbreaker toy.
Voyager - white van resembling a Plymouth Voyager.




= Insectors

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Crawler - stag beetle - licensed from Beetras Beet-Gadol
Creepy - longhorn beetle - original toy
Morphus - locust - licensed from Beetras Beet-Gadol
Scorpio - scorpion - original toy
Tenticus - spider - original toy




= Maladroids

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Standard Maladroids
Nofka - licensed from Super Dimension Century Orguss
SDF-1 - space ship - licensed from Super Dimensional Fortress Macross
Sunyak - leader of the Maladroids, licensed from Super Dimension Century Orguss
Zardak - VF-1 jet fighter - licensed from Super Dimensional Fortress Macross
Zark - VF-1S jet fighter - licensed from Super Dimensional Fortress Macross
Mini-Motorized Maladroids
Meeshak - grey jet
Mooriah - white jet
Turak - blue jet
Volcan - red jet




= New Spies

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These all took the form of objects, rather than vehicles or creatures.
Selectman - tape deck
Tilt - pinball machine
Cash - cash register
Zoom - binoculars
Bandit - slot machine
Vegas - roulette wheel
Focus - camera




= On display

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One of the hotels in Walt Disney World is called Disney's Pop Century Resort, which has different buildings from different decades of the latter half of the 1900s. In the lobby are a series of shadow boxes with memorabilia from each decade. In one from the 1980s are various items including a Convertors Sunyak robot.




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Convertors
• The Convert
• Converter
• Reaching to the Converted
• Convert (command)
• Zeal of the convert
• Special Armored Battalion Dorvack
• Converted wetland
• The Most Reluctant Convert
• WMA Convert