# old toy identification **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 9, 2004, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-toy-identification/259005 "2004-08-09T09:57:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DelawareEng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@DelawareEng](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DelawareEng)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-toy-identification/259005/1 "2004-08-09T09:57:30Z")
When I was little I had a favorite toy that I have not seen anywhere since. I only have a vauge memory of it but heres what I remember. It was a battery powered robot type thing that had tank-type tracks for movement on its back. I think it must have “transformed” in order to use them for movement. I was young when I recieved it as a gift so the would guess the time period would be around the late 70’s. Does this description ring a bell for anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-toy-identification/259005/2 "2004-08-09T10:41:39Z")
Well I was 10 in 1969, and you describe several of a variety of toys I can remember. Possibly a little more in the say of description. What color was the robot type thing? Was it a metalic color? Did it have big red eyes the lit up when you turned it on? Did it shoot anything? It wasn’t part of early transformers/motorized gobots right? ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-toy-identification/259005/3 "2004-08-09T10:43:11Z")
DOH :smack: I was born in 1969…So I was 10 in 19 **79** 🙂 It’s early here yet…Coffee’s on though 😃 ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-toy-identification/259005/4 "2004-08-09T12:41:41Z")
[Omega Supreme?](http://botchthecrab.com/archive/autobot/1985/omega_supreme.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-toy-identification/259005/5 "2004-08-09T13:04:34Z")
Did it have a shiney, silver head? If so, it was part of the Micronaut line. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-toy-identification/259005/6 "2004-08-09T14:15:07Z")
I’d go with Micronauts, the pre-cursor to Transformers, and they were huge in the late 70’s. [http://www.bugeyedmonster.com/toys/micro/](http://www.bugeyedmonster.com/toys/micro/) ---
**Author:** ![DelawareEng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@DelawareEng](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DelawareEng)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-toy-identification/259005/7 "2004-08-09T15:00:30Z")
You guys are the best! I’m pretty sure sure this is it… [http://www.microforever.com/Phobos.htm](http://www.microforever.com/Phobos.htm) My quest is completed!