Dalmatians

Dalmatians is the name given to bootleg robot dogs sold by an unknown company. The design of the toy is copied from Rush, Mega Man's robot dog.

Appearance

The toy has a pair of small, oval-shaped ears that point upwards, and a dark blue nose (I can't tell for sure if it's painted or if the nose is made of translucent blue plastic). Its tail looks like a small rod with circular grooves, and the dog wears a gold chain around its neck with a little, round bell attached. It has a pair of back legs and front legs, and the upper part of its legs which are attached to the body have a circular indent. The toy has a pair of cartoonish eyes and eyebrows painted on, and bump and go wheels beneath its body. It smiles with a friendly expression on its face.

Color Variations

The toy can come in a dalmatian variant where it's completely white with black spots, or in a fully silver variant.

The dalmatian variant that's pictured on the box has a lot more spots than the released toy that's pictured on this page, and it also has black ears, while the released one has white ears. The one pictured on the box also has its ears down instead of pointing up. If it isn't an edited photo, then I think this could be a prototype.

Functions

The toy can move around with bump and go action, but the box appears to imply that it can walk as well. It has a photo of one in a running pose and another in a pose that looks like it's doing pushups. I don't know if it has sound or plays music, and I don't know if its nose lights up.

I wonder if the legs are poseable so you can make it walk or use its bump and go wheels, where if it hits an object while moving, it moves in another direction. Idk.