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Gobots Scales Commercial

Philip Reed November 16, 2013

I think one of the reasons it has taken me so long to really start to appreciate the 1980s Gobots toys is hiding in plain sight: a few of the toys designs were really, really goofy. Scales, as shown in this commercial and the Toy Archive page, is one of those that is a very odd beast of a toy. It auto-transforms into a . . . what are you, Scales?

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