SUMMARY:
Buzz-Off, the “heroic spy in the sky” was produced in Hong Kong, Mexico (Aurimat), Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil, France, and Spain. This bee-like figure twists his waist, spreads his wings, and comes with both an axe and a removable helmet.
The Aurimat Buzz-Off is characterized by its dark caramel arms and legs, muted yellow face, dark green eyes that tend to have green overspray, bright yellow wings, and legs that tend to decolor to a grayish brown hue. The yellows of the figure are light, compared to the mustard yellow in the hong kong figure. This figure came in either a standard head or a larger head.
The Aurimat Buzz-Off was released in the third year of the Los Amos del Universo production (1986). It was released with just a © MATTEL. INC. 1983 using the Hong Kong Mold. The helmet is marked MATTEL INC. 1983 and the axe only has a batch number. Wings are bright yellow, semi-rigid, and are marked MATTEL INC. 1983 with a bar covering up the COO.
The axe is semi-rigid and darker than a hk axe. The helmet is a warm orange, rigid, and has a vertical inscription © MATTEL. INC. 1983, with a large batch number (1 or 2).
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS:
1. Dark caramel skin tones that decolor to grayish browns
2. Bright yellow body stripes
3. Bright yellow, semi-rigid wings with covered COO
4. Muted face paint app with eye overspray
VARIATIONS:
1. Standard head size
2. Larger head size
FIGURE, WINGS & HELMET MARKED: © MATTEL. INC. 1983
AXE MARKED: Single digit batch number
