The Convertors were a line of action figures made by Japanese toy company MARK and localized in North America by New York-based Select in the 1980s.
[3] Convertors toys were featured in a display in the 1985 J. C. Penney Christmas catalog.
[4] The Convertors toys featured the conflict between heroic and evil factions, in this case the heroic Defenders (and their Avarian allies) and the evil Maladroids (and their Insectors allies).
[5] In the original Japanese the Avarians and Insectors were billed as rival factions Bird Robo vs Zectron (バードロボ対ゼクトロン).
Various toys were released in different size classes and price points for the Convertors line.