The Transformers: Super Spychanger Lottery
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The Transformers: Super Spychanger Lottery (トランスフォーマー スーパースパイチェンジャーくじ Toransufōmā Sūpā Supaichenjā Kuji) was a small line of Transformers released by Takara in 2003. It consisted entirely of redecos of the original six Spychangers, and was set fictionally as a follow-up to the Car Robots cartoon.
Said fiction consisted of (very brief) prose in the catalogs included with the toys themselves along with a single installment of Fun Publications' Ask Vector Prime social media feature that fleshed out the setting some 13 years later.
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Fiction
Super Spychanger Lottery catalog
With God Magnus having departed Earth aboard Brave Maximus, the Cybertrons were unable to call upon his power when a new menace suddenly arose to challenge them. A plan was put into motion to upgrade the Spychangers with Spark Engines, granting them Super Modes. The Secret of the Birth of the Super Spychangers
Ask Vector Prime
The Spychangers were the only Cybertrons left on Earth when Chainsaw led the Mutants there. With the Spychangers utterly outclassed, the Spark Engines were developed thanks to Professor Haruma Gō's new substance, Go-Brillium. They notched up many solo victories but had to relearn the importance of teamwork to finally win: under Super Art Fire's newly improved leadership, they mastered the partial invisibility upgrade Super X-Car had been tinkering with and used it to defeat the Mutants.
With the go-brillium used up, they were regular Spychangers again. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/01
Toys
Released in a single assortment in March 2003, the Super Spychanger Lottery toys come in small, "blindpacked" boxes sold in cases of 12 (each case included two copies of each figure) at Japanese convenience store. The team is redecoed from the Car Robots figures, often to make them look "inverted" from the originals.
Additionally, in every case of 12, two figures are available in a rare "chase" coloration, simply called "Clear Versions" (クリアーバーション Kuriā Bāshon). These are based on Speedbreaker's mid-form coloration from "The Mystery of Brave Maximus", meant to represent a halfway point in each Spychanger's transition to Super Mode.
The packaging encourages consumers to guess which Clear Version figure is packaged inside, with the correct guess utilizing the "Evolution Process Method" (エボリューションプロセス仕様 Eboryūshon Purosesu Shiyō).
| Super Spychangers (March 2003) |
References
- Complete archive of Super Spychanger Lottery translated by Andrew Hall
- Article on Super Spychanger Lottery including transcription of the original text at Autobase Aichi
External links
- Transcription of Super Spychanger Lottery at TFLab
- Hall's translations at TFPulp (archived)
