102 el transformer mexicano

gggggggggg Moving on to Mexico. Mexico... land of Tequila, sombreros and repainted mini-cars. IGA was responsible for Transformers in Mexico. IGA, "juguetes con vida" meaning toys with life. There were a number of them, and they are sometimes of lesser quality that standard Has/Tak transformers...but the most interesting to me is the Mexican Blue Cliffjumper(not to be confused with the Microchange Blue or Brazilian Optimus-x-Malignus Blue cliffjumpers - pic). Actually, he was released in blue, red, yellow, and a silver version as well - pic. Other minibots released in mexico include Bumblebee, Gears, Windcharger, Huffer, Windcharger, and Brawn. Gears appears to have been released in both standard and swerve colors, while Huffer was released both in standard and in TWO versions of blue... 'Puffers', if you prefer. (which is NOT to be confused with the euro-puffer). It is interesting to note that, for the later-release colors, they apparently changed the names to reflect the newer character, even though they recycled the mold(for example, a Gears colored as Swerve would be named Swerve on the cardart, while the yellow Windcharger is called Tailgate on the card).
It is interesting to note that the yellow cliffjumper came with just Hasbro copyright symbols(unlike the north American yellow Cliffjumper, which had both Has/Tak)(this is not to be confused with the chinese minibots, which ****). In the pictures below you can see the blue Cliffjumper, all blue Huffer, Maroon Outback and maroon Swerve. These were series 1 mini-cars, repainted into series 3 mini-cars.