Tonka whored the Gobots
brand out to pretty much anyone while the going was good, and this was
one of the odder items of merchandise. Produced by a company named
Tootsietoy, these things were packed on blister cards not totally unlike
regular Gobots figures, and named
as Bubble Man. They were produced in four colours - as well as the red
and blue pictured, there were also green and black versions. 
As
you can see, the figure does have a half-arsed transformation, from a
robot into... a robot with severe spinal injuries. However, this does
mean you can access his fearsome battery of triple bubble blowers. For a piece of superfluous 1980s cash-in crap, it's not bad. Well, okay, it is pretty awful.Still, there are a couple of points of interest. One is that genuine effort has gone into the paint apps on the robot mode - there are even a couple of stickers. Compare that to the Wendy's Gobots. The other thing, mainly evident on the blue one, is that he actually looks a lot like Buggy Man... Same head shape, same face, even a very similar chest layout and overall shape. Makes a change from Leader-1 and Cy-Kill, at any rate.
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