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Operation Combination & Micromaster Collection Circuit
and
Universe Streetwise
Review

Operation Combination Circuit

Circuit is one of two odd bots out in the Sixturbo team. The rest of the team appears inspired by the Protectorbots & Defensor, while Circuit & Neo-Wheel are more like the Stunticons. His vehicle mode is a white Formula 1 car with a grey rear spoiler - so if you looked at the Stunticons you'd link him to Drag Strip

TF: Typical Micromaster car: fold the back of the car back to become the legs then fold the bonnet back, stand up and bend the arms at the shoulders. That saves my typing - just Copy & Paste it !

Robot mode reveals a yellow head, body & upper legs with the bonnet hanging behind him giving him some stability issues. The revealed yellow is quite a nice choice - Circuit isn't the first Transformer to be known by that name. One year previously Actionmaster Circuit (a repaint of Axer's Action Master robot) had been a European exclusive. Action Master Circuit looks like he would have transformed into a car, his body work is yellow and he's sold with a racing car vehicle. Coincidence ? Articulation is Micromaster standard: turning shoulders plus bending but joined hips & knees.

Circuit also forms one of Sixturbo's arms: From his vehicle mode Circuit's back half folds up 90 degrees, pivoting round their rear axles. Circuit then has a fist pegged underneath the front of the vehicle - traditionally the left fist. Circuit is the only one of the four limbs in this set that can't be used to form the other limb type - the peg hole under his nose is mounted too far back to allow it to plug into the peg on the knee of the waist & leg section.

Pretty typical Micromaster car, but with the added side referance to the Action Master.

Circuit was available in 1992 in Japan in the Operation Combination TF-03: Sixturbo giftset.

Micromaster Collection Circuit

Circuit was re-released in 2002 as toy number 3 in the Sixturbo Micromaster collection where he was packed with Sixturbo's left fist & the radar dish that mounts on his left shoulder. His stickers are converted into paint applications for this version and the grey on the spoiler becomes lighter.

Micromaster Collection Reverse Evolution Circuit

Reverse Evolution Circuit is a classic "paint black & make it evil" repaint with all the colours of this toy rendered in black including the left fist & radar dish of Reverse Evolution Sixturbo. A silver Decepticon symbol replaces the Autobot symbol on the nose of the car. For every box of 12 Sixturbo team members - two complete sets of Sixturbo - two toys in one set would be painted black. So on average there would be one Reverse Evolution Circuit in every three boxes.

Universe Streetwise

Streetwise is a direct western release of the Micromaster Collection Circuit and includes the same combined robot parts as the Japanese toy did.

Streetwise ???? No Streetwise is the Protectorbot Police Car (oddly renamed Prowl in this set) I have no idea why they've used this name for this toy ! If they wanted a G1 name how about Mirage ? Or Breakdown after the Stunticon racing car ? Or even exploited the link above and called him Circuit !

Streetwise was sold as a KB Toys exclusive in the USA and was available in Toys R Us in the UK.

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