Voltron Lead

[admin1 aka Ed]

www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml86/86070.html

This is a cool reminder about the lead paint in voltron.

[uberrider]

Good find

[admin1 aka Ed]

I found it interesting that the Japanese ones didn't have the recall....only the ones from Taiwan.

Yet I'm pretty sure all Voltrons came off the sleves then.

ALSO, do you guys recall seeing the Matchbox "made in Taiwan" lions? I "thought" they were all Japanese toys....maybe I just never paid attention.

[corellianvette]

Only the first rev of the Matchbox lions were from the same line as the Godaikin/Popy GoLion; they are identified by the same silver Japanese sticker as the POPY versions; they are exactly the same toys minus the shooting mechanisms and the dull lion teeth (however I have confirmed an original Golion toy, that must have been an overlap because it has all the correct markings, all the firing mechanisms, yet dull lion teeth). These also have no markings under the lions' jaws.

Afterward the matchbox lions went to Taiwan with the GOLION-D stickers, they are very similar but have the lead paint problems and the taiwan marketings.

I think the bootleg "LIONBOTS" are based off this run. It would make sense as production obviously moved to Taiwan, but also that very early LIONBOT bootlegs (the really good ones not the crappy ones around now) are VERY close to the matchbox versions with the exception of the silver tabs on the black lion's wings, and I have a version where the BANDAI marketings are physically scratched off the lions.

I do think there is a subsequent version of the matchbox toy with the GOLION-B designation, but I have only seen one example of a red-lion version of that toy.