BIOROIDS - TRIANFORCE & DELTAFORCE

TRIANFORCE & DELTAFORCE

COMPLETE SET!

SACRED BEAST LEGEND BIOROID

BIOROID

BY TOY COMPANIES:

Official Story:
From the package and catalog.
Note: I translated the story online and at times some of the grammar may be a little off, otherwise I tried to summarize it as best as possible.

Sacred Beasts: Bioroids
The official story
●Bio-roid
The Holy Beast legend(tears of Diaz）
In 1614, breaking the Mayan laws that have been around for a million years.
Diaz, the beautiful girl who made children with the aliens.
Mayan winged serpent god-wrath of Kukulkan.
One of the twins, who was born soon, went to the Jaguar temple with her mother, Diaz.
One was sunk into the sea bed of Bermuda with the Viper.
However, the ominous prophecy that the Twins will revive after 416 years----no.
In 2030, the two coffins were created by Japanese archaeologist Kyoichiro Jindai.
It was opened by Colonel Bradford, an oceanographer who conspired to conquer the world.
Protected by Triangle power.
Octymus (Shunsuke Kamishiro) woke up from a 400-year-old sleep.）
Ashura (Ashura) was equipped with the ability to transform.
Soon as Ashura took the mother with a lust for conquest against kukrukan
Become a vengeful evil warrior.
I'm going to accompany the ambition of Colonel Bradford.
On the other hand, Shunsuke, who was brought up as a professor of the age of Gods
When Ashura's outrage approached his body, Octymus became the main character.
Shunsuke is tormented when his father tells him that they are brothers.
Octymus, can you point your teeth at your brother for justice?!!

Intro

Hello everyone,

I hope you're all doing well?

Welcome to my toy review of my complete set of the Trianforce & Deltaforce !

It took a long time to complete but it was well worth it!

My Story

When first discovering the international versions, I later learned about these original versions. This caught my interest when I first saw the Deltaforce had 5 collectible reptile members and the international versions of the reptiles only released 4 of them, leaving out the King Cobra (Asurah). I always wondered why was that? So I did some more research to try and track down a Asurah, not knowing if he was obtainable or reachable. At some point of time during my journey I encountered my first Bioroid toy, being Mereo the Chameleon from the Deltaforce. From there it restored my faith that they actually obtainable and reachable, it was just a matter of perseverance and patience! After years, here we are with a completed set, which I'm so grateful for!

Now onto the Trianforce VS Deltaforce review!

Toy Review

Note 1: Since there is 2 releases of the toys by 2 different companies, I'm going to stick by calling the set the Bioroids and the Trianforce & Deltaforce.
Note 2: I refer to the names of the animal modes (Beast modes) and humanoid modes (Bioroid modes).
Note 3: I use the catalog profiles for Beast mode transformations names for each animal group: the cats (Bio Cats), the reptiles (Bio Reptiles), Trianforce insects (Trianforce: Bio Insects) Deltaforce insects (Deltaforce: Bio Insects) and the insects in general (Bio Insects).

Check out the links at the end of the review for further information between the 2 different releases by HERO and LANSAY.

Toy Package

The toy package for the series is wonderful and when you have even 1 of members with the box or box sets you can see the effort they put into marketing them. We have professional illustrated toy artwork representing the Beast and Bioroid modes. They are so beautifully done to the point where I feel and look like they could be in a cartoon or anime of some sort. Beside the artwork you can see a clear see through window of the toys in Beast modes and Bioroid modes. The graphics and typography are well detailed and are very colourful, making them stand  out very aesthetically. Finally once you have them all together side by side, the whole set comes to life and full circle! Inside Package

The whole set comes on styrofoam inserts with the accessories and catalogs/instructions. They are well presented when you open them up, giving that fresh new feel when get a toy from the 80s.

Accessories
Left: Trianforce accessories.
Right: Deltaforce accessories
The weapon accessories for each team are all designed and chromed wonderfully. I like how each feel have a unique characteristic trait to them.

Catalog

Trianforce
Octymus: Transforms into a Black Panther.
Blarde: Transforms into a Lion.
Gluverda: Transforms into a Cheetah.
Gallaga: Transforms into a Wild Cat/Lynx.
Thaitan: Transforms into a Tiger.
Doola: Transforms into a Dragonfly.
Queen-Bee: Transforms into a Queen Bee
Battle-Queen: Transforms into a Butterfly.
Kratis: Transforms into a Mantis.

Deltaforce
Asurah: Transforms into a King Cobra.
Dusgator: Transforms into a Alligator
Balcanon: Transforms into a Gila Monster.
Dusmania: Transforms into a Iguana.
Mereo: Transforms into a Chameleon.
Death-Fly: Transforms into a Fly.
Waspran: Transforms into a Wasp.
Mosqulano: Transforms into a Mosquito.
Zonus: Transforms into a Moth.

The Toys

Beast: modes.

Here they all are in their beast modes, a sight I've awaited to see! When displaying them all together it really feels so good!

Following the order of the names from the catalog.
From left to right:
Trianforce: Octymus, Blarde, Gluverda, Gallaga, Thaitan, Doola, Queen-Bee, Battle-Queen, Kratis.
Deltaforce: Asurah, Dusgator, Balcanon, Dusmania, Mereo, Death-Fly, Waspran, Mosqulano, Zonus.

The Beast modes represent their animal counter-parts as well as possible. It's great when you have them all together and have the weapon accessories attached to them and each have enough articulation to play around with. The Bio Cats and Bio Reptiles can have their accessories mounted on them and the Bio Insects don't which I think would of been a nice too for a design or gimmick but it doesn't take away from their play value, you can have a lot of fun with the toys.

Bioroid: modes.

Here they all are in Bioroid modes, a long awaited vision I'm so happy to experience!

Following the order of the names from the catalog.
From left to right:
Trianforce: Octymus, Blarde, Gluverda, Gallaga, Thaitan, Doola, Queen-Bee, Battle-Queen, Kratis.
Deltaforce: Asurah, Dusgator, Balcanon, Dusmania, Mereo, Death-Fly, Waspran, Mosqulano, Zonus.

  
 

When you transform them all together in their Bioroid modes the play value is extended and you can have more fun! The things I like to point out is the 3 Trianforce cat members Octymus, Blarde, and Thaitan can only have them attached on their shoulders like in Beast modes and for last 2 members Gluverda and Gallaga are exceptions as their weapon accessories are attached behind their upper back parts making them unique and give a different look. It's unfortunate they couldn't design a way for the weapon accessories to be held in their hands but I still enjoy them! It is similar with the 4 Deltaforce reptile members Asurah, Balcanon, Dusmania, and Mereo can only have their weapon accessories attached to their shoulders, where as the last member Dusgator can hold his weapon accessories in both hands making him unique of the 5. It's unfortunate they couldn't do the same design for the other 4 Deltaforce reptile members. The 4 Trianforce & 4 Deltaforce insect members can all hold their weapon accessories on either of  their hands giving them a bit more play value than the rest. As a whole the have a unique concept and aura about them that I can't get enough of! Comparisons

The original versions comparisons to the international versions.
Left: Original versions
Right: International versions
 

 

What is the difference between them?

• Head sculpts are completely different, originals are humanoid sculpted and painted. The internationals are chromed and redesigned.
• Body designs are same.
• Colour schemes are almost vastly different as you can see in the contrast of the choices they decided to go with in order to change them for different series releases.
• They both transform the same.
• Weapon accessories are the same.
• The originals have more stickers and more paint applications. The internationals have some stickers but not as much and instead more paint applications.
• The quality between them are similar but with certain individuals feel different. The originals may have some members lesser quality verse to the internationals are more sturdy and stronger.
• All in all both are similar in certain ways but what separate them apart in my review is the originals are more humanoid/beast/robotic. The internationals are more beast/robotic.

Conclusion

What a fun review to do! I love writing about the little information I know about the history of the toys, which is always interesting and fascinating to me. I find that once you discover these original designs, you appreciate how the internationals came to be and are well known as transforming toys during the 80s/early 90s.

I have future plans plan to do a gallery and more in-depth review on each individual toy, to expand my blog more.

I hope you enjoyed my Trianforce & Deltaforce toy review!

Individual Set Reviews

Trianforce - Cats
Deltaforce - Reptiles
Trianforce & Deltaforce - Insects
Lansay (French Versions)

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me!

Kind & best regards,
Robo-Synergy / John Valmeo

SACRED BEAST LEGEND BIOROID - TRIANFORCE - PART II

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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.

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.

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.

Right side view. 

The right side has the names, wonderful pictures, and box detail.

Left side view. 

The left side is identical to the right side.

Top view.

The top view has the toy story of the series and bio information with more wonderful artwork and toy pictures.

Bottom side view.

The bottom view has more of the wonderful artwork.

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.

From left to right: Octymus, Blarde, Gluverda, Gallaga, and Thaitan. 

Bio Cats and accessories.

Trianforce freed!

Bio Cats armed with accessories.

Let's go Trianforce! The feel and look great together. They stand about 6 cm tall.

Bio Panther

His colour scheme is very accurate to a black panther with dead red sticker eyes and shoulder laser cannons!

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!

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!

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!

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.

From left to right: Octymus, Blarde, Gluverda, Gallaga, and Thaitan.

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!

Octymus

Blarde

Gluverda

Gallaga

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!

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

Octymus and Slick

Blarde and Simba

Gluverda and Cheetan

Gallaga and Lynx

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.

Trademark Logos

The toy companies SELECT and MARK trademark logos can be found the inner parts of the toys.

Octymus has the SELECT trademark logo.
Located on his inner back shell.

Blarde has the MARK trademark logo.
Located on his inner right leg.

Gluverda has the SELECT trademark logo.Located on his inner back shell.

Gallaga has 2 SELECT trademark logos.Located on his right and left inner side ribs that fold out.

 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

Conclusion

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

HAPPY 4 YEARS ANNIVERSARY!!!

HAPPY 4 YEARS ANNIVERSARY!!!

Hello and welcome to Robo-Synergy's happy 4 years anniversary!!! 

I discovered and started collecting this whole toy line back in April 9th, 2013. 

And I'd just like to reflect on the experience I have had through these unique toys.

It all began when I first discovered the 8 collectible Maxi, Insecto Robots released by toy company Pacipa. In addition I obtained a transforming robot lion named Simba, from the series V World, Fighting Animal by Pat.P. Leader Shine also known as Champion Crown. 

Here is a art battle scene I did of Flutter vs. Moth to celebrate the event! They are significant since they are 2 out of the 8 insects I first got from the toy line.

I'd like to say thank you very much to all of you who support the blog and those who message me via email asking about the toys. I'm no expert on the toys and still know only a little about them but I try my best to help and share information from what know of them.

Again thank you all!
And always a special thank you to: harlock-toys (the person who sold and help me discover the toys!)

Kind & best regards,
Robo-Synergy