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Diaclone.info is a fan site providing an English translation of content sourced from the official TakaraTomy Diaclone website.

This site is not intended to replace or infringe upon the official website and is created solely for the benefit of Diaclone Reboot fans worldwide.


About Diaclone Reboot

In 1980, Takara created the ground-breaking “Diaclone” toyline in Japan as an original science fiction series of figures, vehicles and playsets.

The name “Diaclone,” was derived from the idea “comrades who have strong friendship and unity like a DIAMOND, ​​and are powerful like CYCLONES.”

Originally conceived as a spinoff of the immensely popular “Microman” line, Diaclone shifted focus to larger scale bases and playsets by reducing the Microman figures from 3.75 inches to approximately one inch. The line incorporated popular Japanese toy trends of the time such as transformation and combining robots into the line. Indeed, Macross alumni Shoji Kawamori and Kazutaka Miyatake were even drafted in to design the mecha.

A couple of years into the line, Diaclone standardized to a 1:60 scale (after being roughly 1:72 for the first year or two), although it was not 100% consistent.

Along with “Microman”, Diaclone treated the world to a science fiction setting with a simple story of “good vs. evil”. Diaclone machines were not sentient life but were piloted mechs, part of a military force standing firm against an alien invasion of terrifying proportions.

After having started in a very much sci-fi vein with robots and spaceships, the line hit even greater heights with the revolutionary introduction of the “car robots” concept; robots that changed into real-world vehicles.

For five years, Diaclone had been a hugely popular line in Japan, and a deal was struck Between Takara and Hasbro to import many Diaclone figures (along with a few similar transforming robots from other lines) to the rest of the Worldand re-brand as The Transformers.

The sheer power of Hasbro meant The Transformers could be supported in a way that Diaclone never was, and as a result, The Transformers got to enjoy the best of everything; from Diaclone it had the beautiful aesthetics and the highly technical transforming mecha, intoxicating to a Western audience not so used to the concept as the Japanese. And in addition to this, Hasbro contracted Marvel to create character bios, comics, theme music, cartoons, a movie and a rich & compelling Transformers mythology underpinning it all.

Takara found they could not withstand the juggernaut that was The Transformers, and the pragmatic decision was made to bring The Transformers to Japan.

By 1985, Takara had ended Diaclone.


In 2015, thirty-five years after its birth and subsequent overshadowing by its own spawn, Transformers, and after laying dormant for decades, the Diaclone line was revived and relaunched as Diaclone Reboot and a brand-new chapter for the 1:60 scale Diaclone world began!

It is this Diaclone Reboot line that we are dedicated to. Up until this point there have been no full English language Translations of the material available for this awesome Japanese only collectors line and it is part of our mission statement to rectify that.

Meet our team

Our clearly deranged team of pseudo-experts have spent far too much time, energy and money on this line. There is little hope for them at this point.

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Xaxis

Co-Founder, Protector of Earth
Faction: Diaclone

Warudoo

Co-Founder, Pillager of Freezon
Faction: Waruda

General Ingam

Former Waruda commander

Bluestar

Waruda commander


More “about” pages


The three oaths of the Diaclone Corps

1. Act with courage to do what is right.
2. Strive for peace.
3. Repell the invading Waruda army.


Defend/Destroy

Which side will you choose? The choice is yours…