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Introduction
Hello everyone,
I hope your all doing well!
It has been a long time since my last post and those reasons I can share with you right here and right now!
This blog post is Sacred Beast Legend Bioroid - Trianforce Part II
Part I can be found here: Part I
It was my first Trianforce toy member and focuses only on the leader Octymus.
Part II covers the complete whole set of the Trianforce, cats.
Description
Series: Sacred Beast Legend Bioroid
Subgroup: Trianforce
Manufacturer: Mark, Select, Hero, and Lansay
Year: 1986-87
Made in: Japan and Taiwan
Country releases: Japan, Taiwan, and France
Lansay: Released these toys in France around the same time as Hero under the series name
Les Mutant Transformables (The Mutant Transformables) and the cats team name was called Animal De Combat (Animal Of Combat) or on the toy instructiosn it was (Fighting Animal) They released them as 5 in a box set or on individual cards.
Toy Review
Firstly, I want to share how great it feels to own a complete set of 5 Trianforce, cats! I surely wasn't expecting or thought it would happen since they are oddities that are not so common or straight forward to find. What makes them tricky and challenging to find is the fact there is basically no official source of information for them.
Ok now onto the toy review!
Toy Package
From left to right: Octymus, Blarde, Gluverda, Gallaga, and Thaitan.
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| Front view. |
I really love and appreciate the detail and designs of the toy packaging. The toy artwork especially of each mode, they are professionally done and feel like they are from a cartoon or anime. The colours are vibrant and work well together in unison for the team.
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| Back view. |
The back shows picture toy instructions on how to transform them. They also have the whole series of the Bio cats you can collect.
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| Right side view. |
The right side has the names, wonderful pictures, and box detail.
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| Left side view. |
The left side is identical to the right side.
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| Top view. |
The top view has the toy story of the series and bio information with more wonderful artwork and toy pictures.
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| Bottom side view. |
The bottom view has more of the wonderful artwork.
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| Inside the package. |
They all come in styro foam insert, classic vintage Japanese 80s toys, love it!
Each come with chrome weapon accessories and a catalog.
Bio Cat
Modes.
Modes.
From left to right: Octymus, Blarde, Gluverda, Gallaga, and Thaitan.
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| Bio Cats and accessories. |
Trianforce freed!
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| Bio Cats armed with accessories. |
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| Bio Panther |
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| Bio Lion |
Large and brute looking with a interesting choice of dark brown colour scheme along with the eye-catching gold head and mane. Add the shoulder rocket-launchers accessories, really makes him a force to be reckoned with!
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| Bio Cheetah |
Love the shoulder armour designs and colour scheme with the stickers makes him represent a cheetah very well! He holds The Flying Sword weapon accessory in his mouth, looking sharp and deadly, I really like it!
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| Bio Wild Cat |
The silver colour scheme with black sticker stripes works really accurate to a real lynx cat and especially the design! He holds the weapon accessory in his mouth, making it look twice as deadly as they are psychic rocket-launchers accessory!
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| Bio Tiger |
A solid and vibrant colour scheme with added coloured black tiger stripes stickers, looking accurately to a tiger! The red eyes just adds another scary effect while he has 2 shoulder laser cannon accessories!
Bioroid
Modes.
Modes.
From left to right: Octymus, Blarde, Gluverda, Gallaga, and Thaitan.
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| The Trianforce Bioroids! |
The Trianforce, Bioroid transformed modes have distinct designs when all presented together. They stand about 10 cm tall. What makes the Bioroid series distinguishable is the theme of the designs being half human and animal. To further notice it you can see their head sculpt designs and certain body parts are painted human skinned colours. There is hand painted areas for the heads, mostly for the eyes, eye-brows, and hair but unfortunately they sometimes are not fully painted properly.
All the Trianforce members have pre-applied stickers on them. However the unfortunate part is some of them are commonly not fully applied properly and tend to be already pealed off in some areas, even if they are new in box. This could cause sets to be incomplete since they don't stick well and be lost easily so please take extreme care!
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| Octymus |
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| Blarde |
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| Gluverda |
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| Gallaga |
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| Thaitan |
All of the Trianforce members have very similar and almost the same transformation patterns for both Bio cat modes and Bioroid modes.
Their cat heads fold down to the chest then revealing the humanoid head.
Their cat forearms become the Bioroid main forearms and hands.
Their cat lower body parts slide down to reveal the Bioroid legs and feet.
Each member has unique weapon accessories.
Their articulation is basic and definitely limited but for vintage 80s toys, its pretty good for me!
The only critiques I have for these toys is, the quality of the plastic is fragile so please take extreme care while handling them.
And lastly the most of the stickers are already applied on and they come loose or half peeled off already which can cause them to be lost easily, making it difficult to replace or have the toys complete, so please take extreme care when you are looking for a complete sets!
Each member has unique weapon accessories.
Their articulation is basic and definitely limited but for vintage 80s toys, its pretty good for me!
The only critiques I have for these toys is, the quality of the plastic is fragile so please take extreme care while handling them.
And lastly the most of the stickers are already applied on and they come loose or half peeled off already which can cause them to be lost easily, making it difficult to replace or have the toys complete, so please take extreme care when you are looking for a complete sets!
Comparisons
Left side are the Bioroids.
Right side are the Fighting Animal releases by Tatsumiya. More commonly known as the international versions Robo-Kats and more different series name releases.
For the international versions I'll use their common english names which are:
Slick: the Black Panther
Simba: the Lion
Cheetan: the Cheetah
Lynx: the Wild Cat
Sarge: the Tiger
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| Octymus and Slick |
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| Blarde and Simba |
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| Gluverda and Cheetan |
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| Gallaga and Lynx |
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| Thaitan and Sarge |
The difference in plastic quality between each of them varies, some are stronger than the other.
There is different paint jobs, stickers, and designing that was done of each series.
There is different paint jobs, stickers, and designing that was done of each series.
Trademark Logos
The toy companies SELECT and MARK trademark logos can be found the inner parts of the toys.
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| Octymus has the SELECT trademark logo. Located on his inner back shell. |
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| Blarde has the MARK trademark logo. Located on his inner right leg. |
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| Gluverda has the SELECT trademark logo.Located on his inner back shell. |
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| Gallaga has 2 SELECT trademark logos.Located on his right and left inner side ribs that fold out. |
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| Thaitan has the MARK trademark logo.Located on his inner back shell. |
Bios
Note: Since all of the toy bios are written in Japanese. I translated them online and at times the translations are a bit off in grammar so I slightly altered some parts so they make more sense while reading it.
OCTYMUS
Role: Leader
Profile: A smart and brave leader who leads the Trianforce. He is good at fighting with quick movements.
Age: 18
Ability: Transforms into Bio Panther or Bioroid mode
Weapons : Laser Cannon (Luminous Flux Diameter 72mm)
Head and body length: 10.52 m
Shoulder height: 4.18 m
Weight: 2,640 kg
Maximum speed: 480km/h
BLARDE
Role: Commander in Chief
Profile: Trustworthy as a high member of the Trianforce corps member's counselor.
Rarely participates in battles.
Age: 45
Ability: Transforms into Bio Lion or Bioroid mode
Weapons: Rocket launchers (10 stroke-shot type)
Head and body length: 19.00 m
Shoulder height: 5.01 m
Weight: 3,225 kg
Maximum speed: 410 km/h
GLUVERDA
Role: Attacker
Profile: Commander of the assault party.
He has a calm deposition, has a wide radius of action, always kills his enemy targets with 99% accuracy rate if they are within in a 10 km radius.
Age: 19
Weapon: Flying Sword
Ability: Transforms into Bio Cheetah or Bioroid mode
Head and body length: 9.98 m
Shoulder height: 3.90 m
Weight: 2,135 kg
Maximum speed: 980 km/h
GALLAGA
Role: Night Fighter
Profile: He is good at night battles and surprise attacks. His skills is the reason why he joined the Trianforce. Is close friends with team member Thaitan.
He doesn't like being ordered by the younger generation such as Octymus.
Age: 22
Weapons: Psychic Rockets (range: 1,138 km)
Head and body length: 5.33 m
Shoulder height: 3.51 m
Weight: 1,750 kg
Maximum speed: 385 km/h
THAITAN
Role: Attacker
Profile: Good at fighting in dense forests and has thick armor. At times has a selfish behavior giving him a not so good reputation with his fellow team members.
Age: 25
Ability: Transforms into Bio Tiger or Bioroid mode.
Weapons: Laser Cannon (Flux diameter 65 mm)
Head and body length: 18.90 m
Shoulder height: 4.97 m
Weight: 3,055 kg
Maximum speed: 380 km/h
I'm so happy I could complete a Trianforce set. It took years to find them 1 by 1 and it wasn't a simple task but it was a great challenge! I hope you enjoyed my review of the Bioroid, Trianforce, cats!
Note: I was going to show the Trianforce, 4 insects together with these 5 cats. However I decided to leave them out since I wanted to focus only on the 5 cats and will do a new separate blog featuring all 9 Trianforce toy members in the future!
A big thank you and shout outs to these sellers who helped make this possible:
chocolatefrog
redstarrobot_vintage_toys
hippo2019-th
昭和こども商店ウォンテッド (Showa Children's Store Wanted)
And if you have any questions, feel free to ask!
Kind & best regards,
Robo-Synergy / John Valmeo
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