'Bowls 'em over!'
Stun Stone's action feature is to spring open into robot mode when being placed or rolled on the ground depresses a button on its underside.
Character Details Unlike Series 1 and 2 Rock Lords, the six (Action*) Shock Rocks did not have individual character bio cards. Both Gobots and Robo Machine Series 1 and 2 (Action) Shock Rocks share their regionally exclusive packaging text across all six figures.
Gobots Packaging 'From the planet Quartex come Shock Rocks; rock warriors with awesome might! Magmar has called in Stone Hook and Rock Shot to aid him in his attempt to take over the planet. However, Rock Roller has joined Boulder's forces and is ready to defend his home. It's a battle between good and evil. Who will win? The answer is shocking!
Robo Machine Packaging 'From the planet Quartex come Shock Rocks! Introducing three heroic warriors helping Boulder defend against the enemy. Magmar has enlisted the power of these three monstrous villains - who will win?'
Stun Stone was not released in Japan or Australia and was not packaged with a separate weapon or accessory.
While it was designed by Bandai, it's unknown whether they had planned to release this model for their Ganseki Chōjin line and decided not to or if it was created specifically for Tonka.
See main Rock Lords index page for more general details.
Region Codes Used: US United States / CA Canada / EU Europe
NOTE: Location codes only shown where items were known to be released. This list is accurate yet likely to be incomplete.
Gobots Rock Lords Shock Rocks Series 2 US/CA Tonka 1987
Gobots Rock Lords Action Shock Rocks Series 2 EU Bandai 1987*
* In Europe Shock Rocks were released as 'Action Shock Rocks' by Bandai. Unlike previous EU Rock Lords packaging that showed, 'Gobots, A Robo Machine Product' packaging for Jewel Lords, (Action) Shock Rocks and Rockasaurs displayed only the Gobots branding.
Stamping Both releases are stamped Japan.
Pink Prototype Sourced from an ex-Tonka employee, the prototype has three fingered hands vs. two fingers on the production version. The fingers are arranged in a circular fashion, not straight like a trident and the whole silver arm section was positioned to the outside of the alcove. In this position the arms would not be pushed into their alcoves by the side panels being closed as on the production version. They also don't appear to have the spring loaded feature seen on the production toy meaning they would need to be manually swung in or our depending on mode. Presumably due to the main novelty of Stun Stone, Blast Rock and Dragon Stone being the quick pop out and easy fold in design, they were modified to allows this before release.
Blue Prototype The blue prototype images show two versions, one mostly blue with the other having a dark red swirl. As with the pink prototype discussed above, the arms also have only two fingers, are placed to the outside of the alcoves and appear to require manual intervention vs. a spring loaded action.
CREDIT: US/CA Stun Stone example kindly provided by Screwhead. Pink prototype images used with permission from Chris Ingledue.
