Gobot motorcycle5/18/2023 Even though my Groove is a slightly off color bootleg, the genuine article isn't that much better. When compared to the infamously dodgy looking Groove, Night Ranger is definitely the more attractive of the two. Night Ranger is one of the better looking transforming motorcycles from the 80's, especially for his size. I can only imagine some overworked intern at Tonka taking a drag on his cigarette while listening to the weekly top 40 trying to come up with another name for these weird Japanese toys when he is hit by a sudden wave of inspiration. Both versions of the figure had a large Harley Davidson style logo just below the windshield that my figure is missing. The original Harley Robo had a blue sticker with his name in white letters. He has a pair of small tabs underneath his engine blocks that let him lean as if he had a kickstand.Ī single gold sticker with the name of an 80's hard rock band adorns his windshield. Night Ranger balances quite well on his two plastic tires. The engine block pieces on either side are diecast metal. He's really solid in this mode with all of his robot parts both cleverly hidden and locked down tight. Night Ranger is a mostly blue Harley Davidson motorcycle who is a little under three inches long in vehicle mode. Now to be fair, Revenge of Cronos wasn't produced until a few years after Gobots.įor the Gobots line, Harley Robo traded his white body in favor of blue and was renamed NIGHT RANGER! Harley showed up a few times in the anime looking a lot better than he ever did in any given episode of Gobots. When the line was relaunched to coincide with the Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos anime, he was re-released with a new number of MRB-14. His mostly white color scheme seemed to take a page from the common police motorcycles of the day. The Machine Robo line was still going strong in 1984 when Bandai released MR-37 Harley Robo. Sister collector oh I think the time has come to review another one of those Gobots.
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