| abstract | - The Victory toyline was introduced in Japan in 1989, as the successor to the Super-God Masterforce toyline, continuing a period of significant deviation between the Western and Japanese Transformers franchises. Whereas the Headmasters and Masterforce toylines had featured several Japanese-exclusive toys and characters, Victory (both the toyline and its supporting cartoon) was made up largely of toys that were never released in the West. Most of the toys released in Hasbro markets in 1989 were not part of the Victory toyline, and those that did make it were assigned markedly different character identities from their Western counterparts, as well as radically different color schemes.
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