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Originally Posted by TheLoudMaster

Ok, so I'm not from the 80s, so I have a legitimate question: they had ZOIDS back then? I thought they were from like the late 90's early 00's?

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Originally Posted by bmorr

I did not even realize that Zoids came out in the 80s(im too young to remember alot of the 80s) i only thought they came around when the cartoon came out in the late 90s, early 2000's

For your reading pleasure: Zoids - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

tl;dr → Zoids have a very similar history to Transformers in that they were part of a different toy line made by Takara in the early-80's that was rebranded and released in the US. It became much more successful under the new name and was re-introduced in Japan under the Zoids banner. The anime/cartoon and toy line in the mid-1990's was actually a re-launch of sorts.