Title:
Powetrain With Highjump, Mudslinger, and Tote Off Road Patrol Micromaster
Description:
Off Road Patrol (Micromaster Patrol, 1988/1990)
Takara ID number: C-335
Powertrain transforms into an orange semi-trailer "sleeper cab” truck of made-up model. He was only available in a four-pack with his teammates Highjump, Mudslinger, and Tote. Powertrain is gang-molded with Mudslinger, sharing the same plastic colors.
Together with the Air Strike Patrol and the Race Car Patrol, the Off Road Patrol was released by Hasbro in late 1988 (basically, a case of "next year product” being released at the end of the old year), in packaging that differed from the "proper” 1989 Micromasters’ redesigned packaging (silver cards and boxes featuring an all-new "Transformers” logo) by retaining a variation of the faction-specific color-coded gradient background on the card and featuring a unique "Micro Transformers” title in a variation of the old, pre-1989 "Transformers” logo. This same basic packaging design was also used for Canada (albeit bilingual English/French) and parts of Europe (bilingual French/Dutch, and Italian-only packaging distributed by GiG). However, a variant of sorts featuring the later 1989 packaging design also exists, and was released (in English-only packaging) in the United Kingdom, where it was sold at Woolworth’s stores.
The Off Road Patrol was sold in Japan a year later as part of the Zone portion of the Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers series, with no notable changes from their Hasbro releases.
This sculpt was also used to make Ironworks.
Takara ID number: C-335
Powertrain transforms into an orange semi-trailer "sleeper cab” truck of made-up model. He was only available in a four-pack with his teammates Highjump, Mudslinger, and Tote. Powertrain is gang-molded with Mudslinger, sharing the same plastic colors.
Together with the Air Strike Patrol and the Race Car Patrol, the Off Road Patrol was released by Hasbro in late 1988 (basically, a case of "next year product” being released at the end of the old year), in packaging that differed from the "proper” 1989 Micromasters’ redesigned packaging (silver cards and boxes featuring an all-new "Transformers” logo) by retaining a variation of the faction-specific color-coded gradient background on the card and featuring a unique "Micro Transformers” title in a variation of the old, pre-1989 "Transformers” logo. This same basic packaging design was also used for Canada (albeit bilingual English/French) and parts of Europe (bilingual French/Dutch, and Italian-only packaging distributed by GiG). However, a variant of sorts featuring the later 1989 packaging design also exists, and was released (in English-only packaging) in the United Kingdom, where it was sold at Woolworth’s stores.
The Off Road Patrol was sold in Japan a year later as part of the Zone portion of the Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers series, with no notable changes from their Hasbro releases.
This sculpt was also used to make Ironworks.
Theme:
1989
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
1989
Country:
United States
Series:
G1
Model Number:
Orange Truck
Date Added:
2021-11-22 17:45:09
Automatic Estimated Date:
2024-01-25
Date Added:
2021-11-22 17:45:09
