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This is a hardcopy prototype of the Pretender Finback. This piece is made of resin and is the first working model of the toy. The shell can open up, but the pieces are not attached on. The clips that hold the shell together are different than the production version and have broken off. They are more of a latch " [ ". Being that they are broken, probably leads to why they changed it. The belt could be missing, or perhaps at this point they never decided Finback needed one. The Pretender robot can fully transform.
When you look at the Instructions of Finback, you can see this prototype was the 1st version to be produced. The person who drew the transformations of Finback drew the 1st version of the toy. You can see though in some panels of the instructions, like the instruction art and a few transformation panels were the face is partially covered, that the drawing represented is this prototype. Other parts of the instructions show the the produced head and body.Instructions Pic 1, Instructions Pic 2.
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