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Class of Bootleg Class 3 - Concept Bootleg
Class Notes: Very, very close to a class 2
Bootleg Source: Star Trek vehicle designs
Bootleg Rating: StarStarStarStar (Four out of five stars)
Sightings:California
Vintage:1999

Title Card art

This is another one of those Bootlegs that straddles a couple of catagories.

For starters, it would fit nicely into the Robotic/Transformer catagory, as it has ships that combine to form a larger robot. But better than that, it fits into the Star Trek catagory.

Becuase if you look closely at the two ships that create the Star Robotcraft you quickly see that they're modeled after Star Trek vehicles.

Detail of card art

For those of you who can't ID these on sight, the large ship on top is a Reliant class Federation ship, and the one on the lower right is a Kligon battleship.

The two smaller ships have been identified as a "Federation Runabout" and a "Dune Spice Scout", but to me they're really not close enough to any ship to pigeonhole them.

On the card

At right you can see the toys as them come packaged. They are blistered to a flimsy piece of cardboard with printing on the front only.

There are two different color schemes available - one with the colors shown, one with the red and blue parts swapped. On the top-left hand side of the card, right under the pictures of the ships, you can see a small photo showing a photo of the real toys with the other color scheme.

Notice that the photo of the ships is part of a larger mosaic that features an arrow (proudly labeled with TRANSFORMABLE) pointing to the robot version of the toy.

The majority of the card is taken up with a "techno-backdrop" in grey. No images appear to have been copied from any other line of toys. There is the standard child-safety warning along the bottom left of the card.

The only instructions on how to transform the toy can be found along the bottom of the card, underneath the Klingon ship. As you can see, it consists of three pictures. Not really a lot of help.

Assuming you can get the transformation completed, included in the package are a variety of guns, swords, knives, and a big-ole-shield that can be placed in Robotcraft's hands. Just don't expect him to hold them very well...they're much to small for the holes in his hands.

Federation Component

Above, we can see the first of the two ships that make up the "Star" part of "Star Robotcraft." Modeled closely on the Star Trek "Reliant" class, it comes with a detachable silver "scout" ship that clips on to the top.

The plastic used is pretty fragile, but the parts seem to fit togther well.

Klingon Component

Second, we have the Klingon cruiser. Again, we get a detachable mini-ship. This mini has been questionably identified as looking like a Star Trek:Deep Space Nine "Runabout." It's close, but not close enough to say for certain.

Anyway, if you're really careful, and lucky enough not to snap any of the brittle plastic in the process, you can join these two ships together to form a 6" robot....

Combined to form Star Robotcraft!

As you can see, the Reliant flips over to become the legs, while the Klingon ship unfolds to become the torso, head, and arms.

It's interesting to note that the makers decided to spray-op the legs of the robot version, even though they aren't really visible in the package.

Detail of head

The head of the robot is a pretty generic Transformer-ish head. It's a shame, really. A Captain Kirk head on this would have been really funny.



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