Posted 18 September 2004 - 07:23 AM
First off being a Canadian my country still has ties to the British throne and as one of her recent subjects regarding trade laws and the like we still have some things in common. For one we, atleast more so back in the eighties, still got the same toy assortments as certain toy lines and in most cases any exclusives found over there (in Europe) could be found in Canada. This is happenning right now with the MOTU line. Battle Beasts were no different. In the eighties we did get some test cases of Battle beasts for the Laser Beast line beyong the less famous 12 the US got. Like Europe we did get the single carded LB's with sheilds (the second set) in very small amounts through a now long dead toystore called Toys and Wheels (think i would have picked them up....but Nooooooo!!!!). Anyways, although the toy assortments may have been the same the colors for Canadian Battle beasts, atleast for the first 2 series, were for the most part a different shade of color. This isn't sunfade or the like. Most of my collection is from the US and Japan. I remember reading a post on this site that touched on the color variants but these were produced and packaged for Canada. Anyways the point of this post is the quality of plastic. The Canadian Beasts seem a little softer and do seem to attract more dirt. Could be the kids that played with them but I'm finding that the Canadian ones are harder to get clean (when they are dirty).
Orca