While looting the house for ebay-ables, I did manage to find all sorts of things I'd forgotten I had... It's mostly with good reason, for sure, but you're going to hear about them over the next few days anyway. First up are a couple of Gobots Bubble Men figures...Tonka whored the Gobots brand out to pretty much anyone while the going was good, and this was one of the odder items of merchandise. Produced by a company named Tootsietoy, these things were packed on blister cards not totally unlike regular Gobots figures, and named as Bubble Man. They were produced in four colours - as well as the red and blue pictured, there were also green and black versions.
As you can see, the figure does have a half-arsed transformation, from a robot into... a robot with severe spinal injuries. However, this does mean you can access his fearsome battery of triple bubble blowers. For a piece of superfluous 1980s cash-in crap, it's not bad. Well, okay, it is pretty awful.Still, there are a couple of points of interest. One is that genuine effort has gone into the paint apps on the robot mode - there are even a couple of stickers. Compare that to the Wendy's Gobots. The other thing, mainly evident on the blue one, is that he actually looks a lot like Buggy Man... Same head shapre, same face, even a very similar chest layout and overall shape. Makes a change from Leader-1 and Cy-Kill, at any rate.
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