Distant Cousins of Zoids

About

One of the “…and stuff” sections of the site. Other toy lines that shared features with Zoids. The status of this section could be best described with a picture of a bulldozer and a hard hat.

R.A.T.S.

R.A.T.S. were released in Europe and Japan before the US Starriors release. The figures had different (more uniform) color schemes, and there were several vehicles that didn’t make it over here.

Starriors

Starriors were released in 1984 in the US, after the first wave of (unnamed) Zoids came and went. They were robots, had windup weapons (either in their chest or right arm), and even had the little chrome pilot, but they weren’t Zoid-like in any other way.

Z-Knights

Walking Gundams? A world where apes evolved from men?

Oddities

I don’t know if these had Tomy’s blessing…