similarities between Galidor and Hero Mashers

[BionicleBean]

Hey zorks!

for my first post on this fine website, i thought i would point out a strange thing i noticed. 

anyone here heard of Hero mashers?(if not look them up)

they were toys made by Hasbro, usually superheroes or sometimes transformers.

their main gimmick is that their parts can be swapped with other figures,

but i thought i had seen this somewhere before.

in Lego Galidor (if you don't know what that is, look it up)sets, the figures' limbs can be swapped, like Hero mashers.

but Lego Galidor was released in 2002, where as hero mashers were released in 2014!

even the way they look is similar.

so, what do you folks think? is it a copy, or coincidence?

[Bambi]

Probably coincidence; I don't think anyone would willingly want to copy Galidor.

[BionicleBean]

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Probably coincidence; I don't think anyone would willingly want to copy Galidor.

yeah, now that i think about it...

nobody in their right mind would copy this.

P.S apologies to any Galidor fans

Edited June 16, 2021 by Heyzorks

[flarius]

On 6/16/2021 at 7:30 AM, BionicleBean said:

yeah, now that i think about it...

nobody in their right mind would copy this.

P.S apologies to any Galidor fans

Thankfully, I'm not the only one who thought that.

But there is a chance someone at Hasbro thought action figures with interchangeable parts was a neat idea and decided to revisit it with marvel characters, no wonder they brought them back as MixMashers.

[Master Inika]

The core idea of Galidor isn't bad as a toy in and of itself, it's just that LEGO can do better. Compared to the average LEGO set, Galidor is less creative, and the sets are just ugly and the humans especially are slightly uncanny. Compared to something like a Transformer, it is a neat idea. That being said it still seems intuitive enough that I doubt Hasbro was combing through the LEGO archives and found this. Wanting to combine your favorite heroes seems to be a universal childhood fantasy, LEGO or otherwise.