Title:
Ironhide (Black)
Description:
Ironhide (1974)
Accessories: "Static Laser Gun”, gun post, 3 missiles
As with all his fellow Autobot Cars from that year, Ironhide’s mold derived from Takara’s Diaclone line, a series which was not about sentient robots, but rather human-controlled machines. The Ironhide and Ratchet molds are the ones that most clearly show evidence of this: in place of a head, these toy robots had chairs behind windscreens where the human rider would control the robot. The figures did include stickers to go over these seats that depicted a sort of robot face, but when Ironhide and Ratchet’s character models were created for Transformers media, all traces of the human-controlled design were removed to give the robots proper faces and heads, ultimately creating the two designs which diverged the most from the toys on which they were ostensibly based.The stripe on the side of his vehicle mode (a sticker on the toy) is actually based on a special edition of the Nissan Cherry Vanette. On the real vehicle, the rear section (which is black on the toy’s sticker) is actually the sliding rear door rail.
Accessories: "Static Laser Gun”, gun post, 3 missiles
As with all his fellow Autobot Cars from that year, Ironhide’s mold derived from Takara’s Diaclone line, a series which was not about sentient robots, but rather human-controlled machines. The Ironhide and Ratchet molds are the ones that most clearly show evidence of this: in place of a head, these toy robots had chairs behind windscreens where the human rider would control the robot. The figures did include stickers to go over these seats that depicted a sort of robot face, but when Ironhide and Ratchet’s character models were created for Transformers media, all traces of the human-controlled design were removed to give the robots proper faces and heads, ultimately creating the two designs which diverged the most from the toys on which they were ostensibly based.The stripe on the side of his vehicle mode (a sticker on the toy) is actually based on a special edition of the Nissan Cherry Vanette. On the real vehicle, the rear section (which is black on the toy’s sticker) is actually the sliding rear door rail.
Theme:
Diaclone
Manufacturer:
Takara
Year:
1974
Country:
Japan
Series:
Diaclone
Model Number:
Black Truck
Date Added:
2021-01-07 13:14:42
Automatic Estimated Date:
2024-01-25
Date Added:
2021-01-07 13:14:42
