Masters of the Universe Meteorbs

[spankweasel]

Does anybody know of transformers that are shapped like an egg, made by mattel & from the 80's. I need any info if possible.
Thanks
Spank

[catgut]

i have afew diffrent types ,not sure of the make (think bandi for most) also have a few others with no make stamp ive noticed )
what type or there ?
dinos, bones,insects or horror ?

whoops forgot to say i can send you photos of the one si have if that helps yer?

[robomonkey]

Aside from the Meteorbs, there were other lines as well. The name of the original Japanese line evades me at the moment.

Here's a couple more links....

www.vector-sigma.it/museum/v/collezioni/LoneWolf/egg/

www.toyarchive.com/He-Man/FakeMeterobs/HemanKnockOffMeterorbs.html

[catgut]

yer i got 2 dino eggs !!!, lol think that mummys pritty good too

whoops forgot to say i got the mantis and beetle in a job lot of beast wars about a year ago aint a clue of the line like

[THE KNOCK-OFF MESSIAH]

i have gaggles of these guys. they started being produced by bandai in japan. under a few names most notabley translated into monster eggs. they were sold in just about every form possible. from insects to farm animals and everything in between. in 86 mattel bought use of a couple to jump on the transformers bandwagon.

[anna]

I have one that looks kinda like an alien what line could that be from?:

[gort]

That Gamera one on the left is pretty sweet

[anna]

yeah he may have been overshadowed by the big "G" but his movies are still fun to watch.

[toyboxraider]

I am a fan of Gamera too, his movies are so kid friendly and my little one loves to watch them.

[catgut]

lmao his name Gamera !!!, heres me thinking all this time he was godzuki (the godzilar baby) ive never heard of gamera before?.
ive just also remembered ive 1 missing out of the photo , hes a brown werewolf , are these 2 from the same series ?
also his plastic is diffrent, its feels better quality than the others do

[anna]

Gamera was Daei's answer to godzilla ironically(at least in the last Gamera movie made in the 90s toho now owns him apparently)

[catgut]

may sound a daft question but were the films world wide?, also what were the films like?

[anna]

they were released in america and are available(some at doller stores lol!) they are slightly more cheesy then gozilla movies but gamera takes a lot more damage and his monsters have a uniqueness about them(one of them is a giant knife lol!) but are still fun to watch.

[toyboxraider]

I think Good Times or Brentwood has a set out of his movies that I picked up years ago and they are a hit when we have reunions with all my nieces and nephews. I paid like 5 to 10 bucks maybe for the box set and there are like 8 movies or so in it, I think. I need to pull them out and have a look.

[catgut]

definitly sounds diffrent (lol a knife?) ill have to keep my eyes open and see if i can get some to watch .
i wounder if theres any other eggbots based on the other monsters in the films?

[davidstoybox]

That is Astrolion and Dinosorb from Masters of the Universe.

[hazza]

Wow thanks for that! All these years i've had them i never knew they were from the masters of the universe.

[proteus]

yeh they sneaked out at the end of the line- werent they called meteorbs?, i remember there was a very silly robot one as well.

it was almost like a seperate line sold under the masters banner

[toyworks]

Feb 28, 2010 4:20:40 GMT -6 proteus said:

it was almost like a seperate line sold under the masters banner

they sorta were, cuz didnt they originally come from a japanese transforming-egg-robot/animal toyline? by bandai i think?

[hazza]

Yeah meteorbs that's the one. I looked them up a bit and saw that silly robot one you mentioned. Otherwise all the animal ones are pretty cool. They were one of my fave toys. And yeah, strange they came out with He man ha.