![]() This version received a revised instruction sheet (or tiny addendum slip), as well as a revised tech spec with the “scrambled” red lines replacing the straighter lines of the 1984 box. Prowl was available again in the US in 1985, and debuted in Japan, the UK, and contintental Europe with a rubsign applied to the front of his hood, on the right side of the car. ![]() Prowl was released in the United States in 1984. Some versions of this Mexican release lack any black paint on the hood piece, such as the curved peak above his bumper. Other variants of Prowl include a Mexican release in a highly distinct deco, with all-black rear fenders, black front fenders, and a black head. Interestingly, there is no 2-bar variant of the gun for Prowl (molded in silver base plastic), meaning 2-bar guns are necessarily Bluestreak’s. Alongside other minor molding and date stamp variants, his rifle also had noticeable variation in the number of horizontal bars on the rear of the gun- 0 or 3. Mold injection points on his plastic parts were moved or hidden. The area where the roof attaches to Prowl’s head/face was similarly reinforced. Partway through 1984, The die-cast rear end of the car had small protrusions added to the “b-pillars” to better support the roof. Some of these issues were addressed in Prowl’s major casting variations. When storing or transforming Prowl, never apply force to the roof in either direction, move the robot’s head section directly. His rear windows are similarly fragile, although better supported and protected by the die-cast pieces they are mounted to. Added to the fact that his roof is supported in the rear only by two small tabs, this has left a large proportion of original toys roofless. His roof and windshield are attached to the panel on the back of his head by a thin piece of clear plastic, which breaks with incredible ease. Rubsign location: None (1984), or right front corner of hood (1985) Collector Notesĭespite Prowl’s design making heavy use of die-cast parts such as the hood and rear quarters, he is very prone to major breakage. Prowl’s transformation is more complex than Hasbro’s smaller offerings, including more advanced tricks like using his waistplate to lock his hips in robot or car mode, and folding his arms up in an interesting opposed position seen in several other Diaclone designs.ĭate stamp location: Bottom of car, near rear wheels Further attention is paid to detail by a wide variety of buyer-applied stickers, decorating his alternate mode with lights, and his robot mode with details like police badges on the shoulders, including stickers that appear behind the rear car windows on his shins. His robot mode shares many of the hallmarks of Diaclone design: the hood and front fascia become the large chest of the robot, his doors become “wings” behind his shoulders, and he has two non-firing shoulder-mounted missile launchers to compliment his armament of a chrome rifle. His doors open, though the Diaclone driver would have originally boarded by opening the roof. Clear windows front and back, and a Japanese metropolitan police paint job – including a sticker of the “Asahikage”, logo of Japan’s NPA – complete the look of realism. He features four-spoke (a mark of the real-life turbo model) vacuum-metalized “chrome” wheels shod in rubber tires. He shares his body with wave-mate Bluestreak and 1985’s Smokescreen. Prowl’s black-and-white alternate mode closely resembles a real Datsun 280ZX, with the exception of his light bar: although Nissan Fairlady cars were used as metropolitan police units in Japan, Prowl’s light bar awkwardly overlaps his two painted-over t-top roof panels. Prowl’s US Patent, titled Reconfigurable toy assembly (aka Transformers G1 Prowl) was filed on Octo(U.S. This version also included different city name stickers that could be applied to customize Police Fairlady to the Japanese locale of your choice. This version included a small plastic and die-cast driver who could sit in the cavity in the center of the car’s cockpit. Prowl, like his fellow Autobot Cars until 1986, was originally designed by Koujin Ohno and released in Takara’s Diaclone as Car Robot Police Car Fairlady Z. Movie - Revenge of the Fallen (ROTF) (118).
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