Space Helicopter - Robot Changers
Originally designed by Takatoku in Japan for their Battle Armored Battalion Dorvack line and sold as 'Ovelon Gazzette', the model was licensed to MARK who made smaller, plastic versions for Select to be released as Chopper.
MARK also released Chopper for their Robot Changers line sold in Europe renamed to, 'Space Helicopter'.
When Tatatoku ended, Bandai picked up the license for the large scale Ovelon Gazzette and leased it to Hasbro seeing a recoloured design released as the Transformers toy 'Whirl'.
See main Convertors & Robot Changers index page for more details.
Region Codes Used: JP Japan / US United States / CA Canada / EU Europe / AU Australia / TWN TAIWAN
NOTE: Location codes only shown where items were known to be released. This list is accurate yet likely to be incomplete.
Convertors Defenders Release 1 US/AU Select (grey and blue) 1984
Convertors Defenders Release 2 US/AU Select (grey and black) 1984
Robot Changers EU MARK (grey and blue) 1984
Battle Armored Battalion Dorvack JP Takatoku 1983
Batrandam TWN (grey and green) Release Date Unknown
Convertors* TWN (darker blue, dark metallic grey) Release Date Unknown
* Confusingly there was a Taiwanese bootleg titled, 'Convertors'; that released the Bonaparte Tulcas (Tanker), Mugen Calibur (Wheels) and Ovelon Gazzette (Chopper) models.
