I can't help but chuckle at how his hands are too small to hold his weapon normally so instead the triple blaster just plugs into the side of either hand.ĭespite having functional knees due to his transformation, Brontobot's nearly immobile hips and copious amounts of excess dino-parts make it difficult to pose him from the waist down. Because of his transformation he is the only member of Dino Squad who has a waist joint.īrontobot is a fairly basic looking robot with his predominately yellow body being almost entirely separate from the green dinosaur shell. With a few twists and turns, Brontobot converts into his robot mode. Sadly his robot head is both clearly visible in this mode and is also placed in a hilariously inappropriate position. While you can move his legs in this mode there isn't much you can do with him other than stand him straight up. On top of his back is a chunky chromed triple blaster. A simple paper stick on each side of the dino's body provides some simple tech detailing. I curse the way science with its adherence to fact checking and peer review has affected the legitimacy of my toys.īrontobot is done in a perfect combination of green and yellow plastic that just screams "toy" with some basic gold paint apps to add variety. Brontobot is embarrassed about how his name is so horrendously out of date. Because the Apatosaurus didn't exist when I was a kid, this guy transforms into a Brontosaurus. I want to cover these guys in order of their relative coolness so let's start off with the aptly named Brontobot. Sadly, some of their chromed weapons are missing. I was able to keep these guys in pretty good condition over the years. As a four bot team they cover the usual spread of dinosaurs with a big blue Tyrannosaurus Rex, a grand green Brontosaurus, a bulky bronze Triceratops, and a beefy burgundy Stegosaurus. It's kinda like when The Calling burst onto the music scene to capitalize on Lifehouse's smooth gravely voiced crooning.ĭino-Squad is a strikingly colorful crew of four robotic dinosaurs who can be best described as "chunky as hell" looking. So these guys join the ranks of other cheapie transforming toys out of Japan that aren't really bootlegs but are clearly aping some other popular brand. I was really happy to find this image of the original card back as it gave me both a name to these toys and the name of the manufacturer: Tatsumiya. You know the type as they often used for cheap knockoffs of Transformer combiners. Rather they were sold all together on one of those half boxes with plastic bubbles on the front. Now I did not purchase my Dino Squad figures on a card like this. For your dino delectation, I give you DINO SQUAD! From the depths of my childhood toys comes a lesser known group of dino-based transforming robots.
The legendary Dinobots from the Transformers permeated throughout toy culture and spawned numerous bootlegs and imitators. Giant robots and dinosaurs go together like peanut butter and chocolate or unicorns and glitter.
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