#671 IMPERIAL CHINA – MUDSLINGER and SWINDLER (1988)

MONTH OF THE BOOTLEG AND THE KNOCK-OFF AT TOYS FROM THE PAST!

Imperial China is the only text that can be read in these figures. I guess they were made by the late 90s in very short batches, because I haven’t seen much and on the internet there are no resources on them. Thanks to the information provided in a comment below by user Chaser, we now know that these toys are much older than we thought, almost contemporary to the toys that the copy. A blistercard has been spotted recently and the copyright is from 1988.

The only I know is that there are several micromasters knock-offs but the colours may differ a bit from the originals, and they are even smaller, maybe 20% smaller. They are even smaller than the smallest transformers ever released by Hasbro or Takara, so, all in all, nice collector pieces.

My two robots are Mudslinger (Off-Road Patrol) and Swindler (Race Car Patrol), although there are also some jets from the Air Strike Patrol and other cars from the Race Car Patrol. Some can be seen in this page: http://www.builtstlouis.net/tf/mmkos/imperial.html

FACTS and FIGURES:

• Name: MUDSLINGER and SWINDLER
• Toy Line: IMPERIAL CHINA
• Year: 1988
• Company: Imperial China (China)
• Size of the figures: 2 to 2.5 cm