Posted: 12 April 2007 at 1:52pm | IP Logged

This is something of a teaser for me; back in school, in the good old days of DT, I used a Cheetor toy as my project basis.  This was because we had to use a toy that was currently on sale.  I didn't own a cheetor, so I simply picked him out of Argos, in ode to my "old" hobby of collecting transformers.

In a way, this toy must've been important to me. Why else would I have started looking at transformers toys again? So although I can't even remember what it looked like, it holds a fond place in my... prezzieness.

Now here's the difficult bit; can anybody identify this Cheetor? I remember very little about him but here goes;

• He was yellow, possibly with spots (massive help I'm sure)
• I kept referring to him as the Mighty Cheetor. I don't know if this was tongue in cheek or if this indicates something of his product description.
• I didn't have the internet and I deffinitly saw him in a catalogue, presumably argos... but I don't know if it was in date or not to be honest. This is because of the timing...

You see, the project was commenced when I was in my GCSE years, without doubt.  My GCSE Time would've ran from September 1999 until July 2001.

I'm inclined to believe this was in the second year of my project as I remember certain little things... I remember the teachers were so inept that they made us come in over our February holiday to carry on working. And I remember first hearing R.E.M.'s "comeback" song "Imitation of Life" in the technician's room at this time. So if I'm right, this would put us somewhere between September 2000 and July 2001.

So my question is, was a cheetor toy of any variety, BW/BM, released sometime around or just prior to this time? And can you identify him for me?

Thanks in anticipation

Posted: 12 April 2007 at 2:58pm | IP Logged

BM Cheetor was the best Cheetor toy ever, so have a look at him. Failing that, TM Cheetor was pretty good, though a little older.

Posted: 12 April 2007 at 4:36pm | IP Logged

one I re coloured black and red, PANTERROR, I own TM2 CHEETOR

 and THE F|_|ING AMAZING SUPREME CHEETOR.

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P BITCH EDIT THE NEXT POST TO SHOW US WHICH ONE YOUR ON ABOUT, THESE IMAGES ARE FROM TFU.INFO!

Posted: 12 April 2007 at 4:37pm | IP Logged

• Transmetal Cheetor
  
• Transmetal 2 Cheetor
• Beast Machines Cheetor
• Supreme Cheetor
• Night Slash Cheetor (It's not yellow, but it did get released during the specified time frame)
  

Posted: 12 April 2007 at 4:48pm | IP Logged

You got it F Slag; cheers for the help everyone

I'm swaying towards this one; Beast Machines Cheetor

It *could* have been this one, because I didn't have a robot mode picture, so going off of animal modes; Supreme Cheetor

however I can now remember using the BM logo as well, so it must've been one of those. I'm guessing the first cos I can't remember seeing the Supreme one in argos, though I may be wrong.

EDIT: I'm not sure though, cos I think I remember him being chunkier than the standard version. hmmmmm.

Posted: 12 April 2007 at 6:18pm | IP Logged

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Posted: 12 September 2007 at 4:54pm | IP Logged

Took me 6 years to find it, but here's the actual photo I used for my project; is it supreme?