Title:
Mirage 5th Vehicle Mode Unbroken 1984 Cars
Description:
Mirage (Autobot Car, 1984-1988)
Japanese ID number: 07
Accessories: ”Rocket-Dart Hunting Rifle”, missile launcher, 3 missiles
Mirage was part of the original 1984 Autobot Cars assortment. His mold was originally used for a Diaclone F-1 Ligier JS11 racer. The toy was specifically designed to work with the launcher mechanism contained in the Optimus Prime / Battle Convoy trailer. This toy is incredibly easily broken at the waist pivot, being just a thin metal rod connecting his upper and lower halves.
In 1984, Mirage was the most common figure of his price point, since he was packaged two per case for the better part of the year. (There were originally only eleven different Autobot Cars figures in a case of 12, with the extra Mirage used to fill up the case. Near the end of the year, the extra Mirage was replaced by Skids.) Like all his 1984 brethren, Mirage received a heat-activated rubsign 1985, added to his spoiler. He was discontinued at retail in 1986, but continued to be available as a mail-away item until 1988, costing $8 and two Robot Points. The last of these offers, 1988’s ”The Autobots Are Under Attack!,” marked the final release of the toy; the figure’s mold was subsequently either lost or damaged, making him the only 1984 toy to never be reissued in any capacity. He has, however, been knocked off to high heaven in a variety of colors.
The labels on the toy are references to several real-world companies. The largest name, Citanes, is a deliberate corruption of Gitanes, a French cigarette company. (Quite unusual for a child’s toy, but not the only cigarette reference in Diaclone.) The toy included Gitanes’ logo of a dancing gypsy woman on what ends up as Mirage’s belt in robot form. ”Ligier” is the name of the company that manufactured the JS-11 chassis and fielded the team, traditionally wearing 25 and 26 on the F1 grid, while ”elf” is a reference to a French oil company that has since merged with TotalFina to become TotalFinaElf.
The Italian version of Mirage (called ”Mistero”) released by GiG covered the ”Citanes” tampographs with factory-applied ”Ligier” decals, and later outright replaced the ”Citanes” tampos with actual ”Ligier” tampos.
Japanese ID number: 07
Accessories: ”Rocket-Dart Hunting Rifle”, missile launcher, 3 missiles
Mirage was part of the original 1984 Autobot Cars assortment. His mold was originally used for a Diaclone F-1 Ligier JS11 racer. The toy was specifically designed to work with the launcher mechanism contained in the Optimus Prime / Battle Convoy trailer. This toy is incredibly easily broken at the waist pivot, being just a thin metal rod connecting his upper and lower halves.
In 1984, Mirage was the most common figure of his price point, since he was packaged two per case for the better part of the year. (There were originally only eleven different Autobot Cars figures in a case of 12, with the extra Mirage used to fill up the case. Near the end of the year, the extra Mirage was replaced by Skids.) Like all his 1984 brethren, Mirage received a heat-activated rubsign 1985, added to his spoiler. He was discontinued at retail in 1986, but continued to be available as a mail-away item until 1988, costing $8 and two Robot Points. The last of these offers, 1988’s ”The Autobots Are Under Attack!,” marked the final release of the toy; the figure’s mold was subsequently either lost or damaged, making him the only 1984 toy to never be reissued in any capacity. He has, however, been knocked off to high heaven in a variety of colors.
The labels on the toy are references to several real-world companies. The largest name, Citanes, is a deliberate corruption of Gitanes, a French cigarette company. (Quite unusual for a child’s toy, but not the only cigarette reference in Diaclone.) The toy included Gitanes’ logo of a dancing gypsy woman on what ends up as Mirage’s belt in robot form. ”Ligier” is the name of the company that manufactured the JS-11 chassis and fielded the team, traditionally wearing 25 and 26 on the F1 grid, while ”elf” is a reference to a French oil company that has since merged with TotalFina to become TotalFinaElf.
The Italian version of Mirage (called ”Mistero”) released by GiG covered the ”Citanes” tampographs with factory-applied ”Ligier” decals, and later outright replaced the ”Citanes” tampos with actual ”Ligier” tampos.
Theme:
1984
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
1984
Country:
United States
Series:
G1
Model Number:
Blue Car
Date Added:
2021-01-15 13:10:21
Automatic Estimated Date:
2024-01-25
Date Added:
2021-01-15 13:10:21
