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Re: Help needed. Chinese-made Diaclone???
Great Scot! Need more information to answer this question definitively. Assuming that there was no box and that the trailer was grey (as opposed to chrome), it is possible that yours was the GiG Italian release. There is some information about that here:
<http://tfsquareone.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/diaclone-powered-convoy.html> - thanks Maz.
The short story is that there were several improvements made to the mold (for Transformers Ultra Magnus) and that the improved Powered Convoy was sold as a Diaclone release by GiG in 1984.
If that is the case, then yours was legitimate, albeit not the original mold of Diaclone powered convoy, but an improved Diaclone mold.
More support for that conclusion is that the toy didn't break. I've read some of the original diaclone toys are so rare because they were crap i.e., shoddy, crappy materials. I assume yours wasn't broken.
Still more support for that is that I can't find a KO Powered Convoy that bears the stamp you have pictured.
Last edited by elburrito; 03-21-2017 at 12:18 PM.
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