Which hit US shores first, Diakron or Gobots?

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  1. Sweep, Oct 10, 2015
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    They both came in 83 right?
     
  2. bobbyjack, Oct 10, 2015
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    Diaclone, right? I was 8 back then and don't remember seeing any Gobots until TFs were already out.
     
  3. Nevermore, Oct 11, 2015
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    He's referring to "Diakron", the short-lived official Takara-helmed US release of a few Diaclone figures (Powerdashers plus red Sunstreaker, blue Trailbreaker and black Ironhide).
     
  4. SouthtownKid, Oct 11, 2015
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    After all the weird Japanese misspellings of American words and names over the years, it's even more weird that we had such a needless misspelling of a Japanese name that was just an amalgam of two English words to begin with.
     
  5. Sweep, Oct 11, 2015
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    I never heard of Diakron , I was 9 back then and I know that Gobots came before Transformers, but did Diakron get here before Gobots?
     
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    Diakron - Transformers Wiki
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  7. Hazekiah, Oct 11, 2015
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    Not to mention the OMG HILARIOUS mistransposing of the English EL sound into a hard R sound, lol.

    Too ridiculous!

    I'd never heard of this wave of releases for the molds, btw. Very interesting!

    Cool to see that, in a way, the Michael Bay films actually returned Iron Hide to his ORIGINAL color scheme, as opposed to the generally accepted view of them having misrepresented his LITERALLY "redneck" G1 self.