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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Deluxe Megazord
Bandai, 1993
Fit five separate Dinozords together to make the Megazord. You could also arrange them into a low tank formation. Look for the original Deluxe Set, item 2260, if you remember assembling the dinosaurs yourself.
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Tiger Electronics Furby
Tiger Electronics, 1998
Pet a Furby or make a sound nearby and the mechanical creature responds. Its ears, eyes, and beak do a lot of the acting. The original starts out speaking Furbish and adds preprogrammed English phrases over time.
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LEGO Mindstorms Robotics Invention System 1.0
LEGO, 1998
Build the body out of LEGO, then tell the yellow RCX brick what to do with the motors and sensors. This set turns the question from how should a robot look to what should it do when it bumps into something. The box calls it the Robotics Invention System.
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Sony AIBO ERS-110
Sony, 1999
Watch a robot dog walk on four legs and play with a colored ball. The ERS-110 used sensors to react to its surroundings, which made its movements feel different from a toy on a remote. Sony released this first AIBO to U.S. and Japanese buyers in limited numbers.
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Kenner Electronic Remote Control R2-D2
Kenner, 1997
Drive the little droid yourself and give it blinking lights and electronic sounds to go with the trip. Look for the Power of the Force box and Kenner’s 27736 item number if you remember the controller but keep finding a later R2-D2.
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Beast Wars Ultra Optimus Primal
Kenner, 1996
Fold the gorilla into the robot and open up the arms to find the weapons hidden inside. The broad black gorilla makes this original Ultra Optimus Primal easy to distinguish from later, shinier versions. The fun is how much the robot is carrying around in its own body.
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Toy Biz X-Men Sentinel Robot Playset
Toy Biz, 1994
Hit a target and the chest plate pops off, giving you a place to put a captured X-Men figure. The big Sentinel doubles as the villain and the location of the fight. The box also advertises a claw for grabbing smaller figures.
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Beast Wars Deluxe Dinobot
Kenner, 1996
Change a brown raptor into a robot, then use the detachable tail as its spinning weapon. The tail is worth checking on a loose figure because it does so much to complete both versions of the toy.
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Beast Wars Ultra Megatron
Kenner, 1996
Turn a purple tyrannosaur into a robot that still has the dinosaur’s head at the end of one arm. Water squirts out through its mouth. That pairing of a clever conversion and a silly toy feature makes this one easy to recognize.
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Trendmasters Die-Cast Voltron Five-Lion Set
Trendmasters, 1997
Join five mechanical lions to make Voltron. The die-cast pieces give the job a satisfying heft, and the different lion colors help you remember which limbs go where. Look for the Trendmasters mark on the box when telling it apart from earlier or later five-lion sets.
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Transformers Generation 2 Laser Optimus Prime
Hasbro, mid-1990s
Unfold the tanker into a base, then turn the long-nosed truck cab into Optimus. The cab’s light works with translucent parts on the figure. The silver-and-black tanker and red-and-black truck help you spot this version among all the trucks that carried the Optimus name.
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Transformers Generation 2 Megatron
Hasbro, 1993
Turn a green-and-purple tank into Megatron. Part of the tank’s turret becomes a shoulder cannon in robot mode. The bold camouflage and chunky tank silhouette give you two ways to spot the Generation 2 figure.
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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Deluxe Thunder Megazord
Bandai, 1994
Start with the Red Dragon Thunderzord, then fit the other Thunderzords around it to build the complete robot. So much of the pleasure is in watching the dragon change shape before the rest of the pieces go on. Look for the full Deluxe set if you want all the pieces in one box.
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Beast Wars Deluxe Cheetor
Kenner, 1996
Turn the spotted cheetah into a robot and pull out the water-squirting accessory hidden underneath. The animal’s markings carry through the transformation, which makes this a good example of how the early Beast Wars toys made their two forms look related.
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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Deluxe Dragonzord
Bandai, 1993
Set this mechanical dragon beside the Megazord or combine it with parts of the original Deluxe set. Its segmented tail gives it a recognizable silhouette. The original 2270 package also advertised electronic lights and sound.
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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers White Tigerzord
Bandai, 1994
Rearrange the tiger into a white-and-gold standing robot. The tiger head sits at the center of the chest, so the toy still looks recognizably like the animal you started with. Look for Bandai’s 2271 set when comparing it with the later versions.
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Kenner Techno Zoids Electronic Iron Kong
Kenner, mid-1990s
Assemble a mechanical gorilla and switch on its motor to see the body you built start walking. The original red-and-yellow box advertises light-up eyes as well as movement. That combination gives you a way to recognize the U.S. Techno Zoids version.
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Microsoft ActiMates Interactive Barney
Microsoft, 1997
Squeeze Barney’s foot to hear him sing or try one of the games triggered by a sensor in his hands or eyes. The optional TV and computer packs let the plush respond to certain programs, a very ’90s idea of what a toy and a screen might do together.
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Toymax R.A.D. Robot
Toymax, 1998
Drive this tracked robot around the floor with a handheld controller. Its movable arms advertised a chance to pick things up, and Voice Link let you send your voice through the robot. Look for plain R.A.D. on the original box, since there was also a 2.0.
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Trendmasters Remote-Control Iron Giant
Trendmasters, 1999
Make the movie robot walk and watch its eyes light up. A little magnetic Hogarth figure came in the box, and it gives you a sense of scale even when the Giant is standing on your floor. Look for the remote-control version, since Trendmasters made several other Giants.
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Beast Wars Rattrap
Kenner, 1996
Work the rat’s tail to start the spring-assisted change into a robot. Rattrap gives you a very different kind of transformation from the toys that take ten minutes to figure out. The small original belongs to the Basic line.
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