The Undiscovered Playthings

Well, since the second  Transformers movie is coming out, I thought I’d toss out this little gem of Transformers bootlegs that will make you gawk, howl, shy away from, chuckle at, covet, examine…
I bought these a few years ago in some discount shop in a, well, in a not so well off neighborhood.
There’s a whole series of figures in this set. But I’m pretty sure these are the only two I’ve got.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I’m completely ignorant when it comes to Transformers toys. I did a quick search to see if I could find any real toys that resembled this packaging and came up with nothing. Of course, I didn’t really search too hard.
The cards aren’t your typical bootleg toy packaging with a square/rectangular shaped card and square bubble. These figures are mounted on a card that actually has angles. Imagine that! Same goes for the bubble. The packaging actually looks pretty good!
Who these figures are supposed to be? Well, I’m gonna run an image search and see what turns up.
Well friends, I had no luck. So if anybody wants to lend this poor ignorant fellow a hand, I’d appreciate any comments you drop indicating what characters these guys are supposed to be bootlegs of.

You can’t see all of the bubble, so I thought I’d show you this:

ROBOTS IN DISGUISE  That’s a Transformers theme, right? If you look really close, you’ll see SUPERDUTY HERO just above the word VEHICLES. Whatever that’s supposed to mean, I have no clue.

Ta Daaa! The back of the card.

You should see me when I’m trying to ‘transform’ transforming toys. It’s an effort in futility. These figures don’t come with any instructions, so if I had to try and transform them based on these pics, well, it would wind up being a wasted day for me. I kid you not. Chris Doyly has these Lego Knockoffs and it absolutely amazes me that he can actually construct something out of them.
It looks to me like I’ve got the figures shown in the top right and the lower left of the card back.

Want a closer look at the ‘conversion’ pics? No? Well, too bad cuz you’re getting one.

The two figures pictured above are the ones I wish I had. Oh well….

These figures don’t share the same colors as pictured on the card back. Not a problem for the red guy as I think he’s pretty cool looking. The figure pictured up top got the short end of the stick in as his main color is grey.
Both of these figures stand tall at about six inches from the top of the head to the bottom of the feet. There are no accessories included with these things. But I guess they aren’t needed since the real play value is the ability of these things to transform. It’s too bad they are bootleg toys cuz you just know that it won’t take much to break these things (assuming they can even be transformed successfully).