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.
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.
Walking Gundams? A world where apes evolved from men?
I don’t know if these had Tomy’s blessing…