Top row: Captain Attack; Venom Van; Sky Hook; Terrain Tracker.
Top row: Captain Attack; Venom Van; Sky Hook; Terrain Tracker.
There's a certain beauty to the naming scheme on these toys, such as the fact that
Red Flame has not a trace of red on him, or the Jeep that's named Venom Van, and the ominously named Night Warrior who transforms into... a cherry picker.
The toys themselves are very floppy and loose-jointed. Some of them don't hold together all that well as vehicles, particularly Captain Attack, Red Flame and Night Warrior. Sky Hook's arms are ball-jointed, but the posts that hold the arms look extraordinarily thin and fragile. On the other hand, I have to commend these guys for a couple of alternate modes we've never seen before, namely the cherry picker and Terrain Tracker the Bobcat. Terrain Tracker is actually a decent little Bobcat, even if he's got bizarrely goofy feet. Sky Hook is also bizarrely unique in that unlike most self-propelled cranes, he doesn't have a separate, second cab for a driver.
Several of the Formulator Force borrowed chest molds from first-year Micromasters, as seen here. The bootleg toys are simplified and slightly altered in places, but the similarity is unmistakable.
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Bottom row: unnamed recolored Captain Attack; Red Flame; White Knight; Speed Deman [sic]; Night Warrior.
Bottom row: unnamed recolored Captain Attack; Red Flame; White Knight; Speed Deman [sic]; Night Warrior.
Venom Van uses Big Shot's chest.
White Knight has Stakeout's torso piece.
Terrain Tracker and Red Flame both use Tailspin's chest.
I haven't been able to figure out where the other four molds' torsos come from; Sky Hook and Terrain Tracker, at least, may just be original designs.