Galoob
Galoob was an American toy company best known for their electronic toys and for the 1980s smash Micro Machines. Founded in 1957 by Lewis and Barbara Galoob, and gained considerable notoriety for the Game Genie, a video game manipulator that saw the company unsuccessfully sued by Nintendo in 1992. However, a general downturn in the toy industry saw them taken over by Hasbro in 1998, seven years after Tonka had suffered the same fate. The Galoob name is now occasionally used on some Micro Machines-style Hasbro toys.
While they had no direct link to GoBots (being a direct rival of Tonka when the line was produced), two of the vehicles from their Power Machines range of battery-powered vehicles were licensed by Bandai for Japanese release in 1986. They are, to date, the only toys not created by Bandai to appear in a mass-retail Machine Robo toyline.
