ROBO-SYNERGY

Monday, 2 November 2026

HELP FINDING MY WISHLIST! CENTAU-CEDARS / FIGHTING ANIMAL - BOX SET!

Hello viewers!

In this post I want to revisit my WISHLIST!

The CENTAU-CEDARS (Taiwan version) also known as The FIGHTING ANIMAL (English version)

I'm still searching for them and I'm calling out for help! For any information and resources I can possibly find them and if anyone is familiar with these toys please reach out!

I've attempted to do business with sellers who possessed them from Taiwan but didn't or want to sell internationally. I'm willing to do an honest and genuine transaction with buying and paying for internationally shipping costs. If anyone lives in Taiwan or another country that is open to shipping internationally overseas to Australia, please contact me and I'd be happy to work with you for a safe and trustworthy business transaction! I love these toys and have been collecting them for years now and all I desire is to make my wish come true to obtain and complete this amazing set and share my love for them with everyone else around the world! Thank you! Now on to the toys below:

Toy Information

Manufacturer - Leader Shine (Champion Crown)

Series Name - V World / 100 Beast Justice Corps (Taiwanese version - Japanese Kanji writing)

Box Set - Fighting Animal
5 Collectables - Includes:

Cheetah (Cheetan) / 1 chrome weapon accessory
Lion (Simba) / 2 chrome weapon accessories

Wild Cat (Lynx) / 1 chrome weapon accessory

Tiger (Sarge) / 2 chrome weapon accessories

Black Panther (Slick) 2 chrome weapon accessories
Year: 1980s / early 1990s
Made in: Taiwan

PICTURES

Picture 1: Top image is front view of box shows the toys behind clear plastic and the toy artwork. Bottom image is back view of box shows the toy line series and toy instructions.

PICTURE CREDITS: Instagram: @wu.ming.cheng

Picture 2: Online translation of front view of box text from Japanese Kanji to English.

Picture 3: Toys out of box. The top image is the toys on styro foam inserts. The middle image is a cropped image of top of the box which is a handle for carrying around the box. The bottom image is the box without the toys inside.

Picture 4: Finally the 5 toys in robot and cat modes with toy accessories.

Outro

I hope whoever reads this post has insight where they may be and finds it interesting!

Thank you so much!

Kind and best regards,

Robo-Synergy / John

Saturday, 17 October 2026

DREAM PROJECT: TOY ARTWORK CUSTOMS! THE REPTILES

DREAM PROJECT: TOY ARTWORK CUSTOMS!
THE REPTILES

Hello & welcome!

In this post, it will feature the toy artwork customs, Series 2 - The Invading Reptiles.

Featuring members: Chameleon, Gila Monster, Alligator, and Iguana.

INTRO

The design process to create my vision for the toy customs for The Reptiles was immensely fun and rewarding, just like with The Kats. My desired goal was to animate the toy artwork colour palettes to the toy designs. When finding a balanced colourisation between the reptile mode and robot mode, was interesting like painting the The Kats. Because the toy artwork colours on some of The Reptile members do not match their transformations. For example, Chameleon's robot mode has lighter colours and his reptile mode is darker and his should weapons a different colours entirely. This is where I chose the robot mode colour schemes more so that would translate to the reptile modes, while taking colour cues from the the reptile modes. Also using my own creative freedom to give them each a unique character colour palette, while giving them the team a unified tone, was important for me to enjoy the project!

ANIMATING THE TOY ARTWORKS

MY STORY & EXPERIENCE

The Reptile being the counter-parts to The Kats, is a worthy matchup! I imagine both sides in their own territorial habitats with 1 side defending a free land. Where the opposing side desires to overtake it all for themselves for domination!

How I started off with this dream project, was to have some duplicates of each toy member and unapplied all the stickers and fully repaint them. As I studied the colour palettes of the toy artworks, I used them as my guide/reference and also my own fan artworks of the toys which was really helpful. It was not only my goal to animate the toy artworks but also to represent their wonderful unified team colours. As I gathered my colour swatches, it was important to visualise how they all would look in the finished works, I'm very happy with the results!

As you will see some of the toy artworks drawn and coloured for both the robot mode and animal modes, appear to different with certain members. This is where I had to develop my own creative way to find a balance between the toy representations. You will see various examples like with Chameleon's both modes don't fully align with his design and colours. With Gila Monster's both modes they chose to color him silver/grey like the original DELTAFORCE - BALCANNON from the BIOROID series. I can guess they wanted to have some contrast and break up between the other reptile members. However I loved the international colour version being green which makes gives him a united colour scheme with his other reptile members. Alligator's both modes was fun and a clear plan how to colour him as much was not needed for directional plans. Finally Iguana's both modes was my most favourite member to work on because his original international release was a red Iguana, with fire decals on his body. It's probably the most memorable reptile but its subjective and I still love them all! Now him being red and the toy artwork being green, I definitely wanted to emulate those potentially awesome design and colour ques to my toy custom of him, humbly I achieved my vision!

To see the whole team comparisons with the original releases and my toy customs, scroll right before the end of the post!

REPTILE MEMBERS / TOY ARTWORKS + TOY CUSTOMS

THE INVADING REPTILES
GROUP PICTURES

REPTILE MODES

ACTION POSES!

ROBOT MODES

ACTION POSES!

COMPARISONS

LEFT: ORIGINAL / RIGHT: TOY CUSTOM

OUTRO

This Dream Project has been so fun and rewarding! I'm very happy to finish series 2, The Invading Reptiles, they hold a special place in my heart!

There is no question, without seeing these original toy artworks of each different series of 19 collectibles from the created V WORLD toy line, I wouldn't of remembered the toys. This reignited my love for the toys via seeing the beautiful original toy artworks on all the toy packages. It is a special nostalgic feeling for me and yet it sparks new experiences that I continue to keep cherishing and appreciating the level of effort that toy companies: LEADER SHINE (CHAMPION CROWN) and the many pivotal connected toy companies intertwined to this toy line who did so many releases/re-releases of these charming transforming robot toys.

I am forever grateful to them!

If you stopped by to view this post, thank you so much for the support!

Kind Regards,
John Valmeo / Robo-Synergy

Friday, 19 June 2026

DREAM PROJECT: TOY ARTWORK CUSTOMS! THE KATS - PART: 2

DREAM PROJECT: TOY ARTWORK CUSTOMS!
THE FIGHTING KATS - PART: 2 - COMPLETE!

Hello & Welcome People! I hope everyone is happy & healthy in 2026!

At last I have completed my 5 toy artwork customs of The Fighting Animal Kats:
Cheetah, Lion, Wild Cat, Tiger, and Black Panther!

INTRO

The thought process and customisation development was a fun activity, involving studying the colour palettes of the toy artworks and applying the paint to animate each Kat members as accurately as possible and at the same time expressing my own creative freedom within the aesthetics of the toy designs!
I hope you enjoy and like my passion and dream project that has been long in the making. ^.^

ANIMATING THE TOY ARTWORKS

Top: Original Toy Artworks / Below: My Toy Customs

MY STORY & EXPERIENCE

A fun idea I wanted to do for so long, which is homage the toy artworks through synergising toy customs! I always love to express my love and gratitude for the artists who created the toy artworks, as it gave me the imagination to picture the toys in a cool way and wanting to pose them in that way, even though they were limited with articulation, it didn't stop me moving forward!

How I started off with this dream project, was to have some duplicates of each toy member and unapplied all the stickers and fully repaint them. As I studied the colour palettes of the toy artworks, I used them as my guide/reference and also my own fan artworks of the toys which was really helpful. It was not only my goal to animate the toy artworks but also to represent their wonderful unified team colours. As I gathered my colour swatches, it was important to visualise how they all would look in the finished works, I'm very happy with the results!
As you will see some of the toy artworks drawn and coloured for both the robot mode and animal modes, appear to different with certain members. This is where I had to develop my own creative way to find a balance between the toy representations. For example, Cheetah's robot vs kat mode, the colours are not consistent, some colour parts are varied from the other. I found this to be intriguing, because I know from the robot mode, these colours highly reflect the same colours from original the BIOROID series Cheetah: GLUVERDA. Meaning there is no information why is this so? I can only guess, during the design process when creating and presenting the toy artworks, there must of been some kind of miscommunication between the artist/s and the toy companies or budget time constraints, who knows?! This is the many mysterious questions I have when thinking and looking at the toy artwork, it was so professionally done to the point where it has led me here giving my love and tribute to respect what they creators did to bring these toys to life!

KAT MEMBERS / TOY ARTWORKS + TOY CUSTOMS