Kabaya “Votoms Gum” models
Originally released 1983-84 in four package styles
Package style 1 and 2
Package style 3
Package style 4
1. Red Shoulder Custom / 2. Diving Beetle / 3. Brutishdog
4. Standing Tortoise / 5. Scopedog with round mover / 6. Strikedog
7. Berserga / 8. Marshydog / 9. Snapping Turtle
10. Fatty / 11. Zwerg / 12. Rabidlydog
See more photos at these links:
Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Articles at the Days of Votoms blog
Other products from Kabaya
Interlocking A.T.s
These small interlocking A.T.s probably came with candy of some kind, and they’re hard to recognize until you look closely, but the orange ones are definitely Scopedogs and the blue one is definitely a Diving Beetle.
The gimmick was that if you collected a bunch of them, they could chain together (a little like the famous Barrel of Monkeys). What you did with them after that was your business.
Mini-models
This one’s kind of an oddball, since it doesn’t match any of the model kits released by Kabaya. It was probably packaged with candy like those, but it’s much smaller and simpler in design. It looks a lot like an obscure Balarant AT called the Blocker, which only appeared in the opening war montage.
Something else that makes this a standout product: vehicles! Very rare in the early years.
As of this writing, others in this series have yet to turn up, but it appears there were at least two different box styles.