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Greek Exclusive Transformers: Licensed by the company EL GRECO, known to toy collectors for unique versions of my little pony and licenced by HASBRO. There don't seem to be too many Greek made Transformers as the EL GRECO company had a life which ended at the early 80s (circa 1985). This is one of the only series of Greek Transformers found so far, which cosists of 7 different CLASSIC HEROIC (mini vehicles is not mentioned). Their names (as the whole card is written in Greek) are given in Greek. A translation to English (and the equivalent to the international name) follows: Ahtipitos (Unbeatable) = Warpath Kiriarhos (Dominator) = Cosmos Keravnos (Thunder) = Powerglide Ageliaforos (Messenger) = Beachcomber Egefalos (Brain) = Brawn Gigantas (Giant) = Huffer Thalassolikos (Seewolf) = Seaspray
  It is interesting to note that these minibots all have pretty obvious color variations unique to Greece. For example, Huffer is more red than orange. Powerglide is much lighter red (similar to the Takara reissue). Cosmos is a much lighter green.
It is interesting to note that Brawn's head is *not* remolded for this line. It only appears that way, because of the color (or lack therof). There are two mold versions of Brawn in the US TF line; the face with the removable eye visor, and one where the entire face pops out. Because of a missing silver paint app, the difference is quite a bit more noticable on the Greek Brawn (which is a version 2 face). (Pic)
Note: In addition to these minibots, the only other exclusively-Greek-packaged TFs known at this time are the Devastator and Defensor Giftsets. Eric adds: "One of the really noticable differences is the Greek Devastator. The robots are molded in a totaly different shade of green, and are stamped Takara made in China. The accessories are all G2 purple color, and he comes with funky missiles, that don't look like the ones he came with here or those strange little black rubber tipped things he came with in Italy." See the World Giftset Listing for information on those. |