El Greco

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No, not the painter.

El Greco was a Greek company that held the license to manufacture and market Transformers toys in Greece during Generation 1.

They released a handful of toys from the original toyline, some of which bear a few differences in tooling and colors. These featured the original Greek names for the characters on the packaging, rather than the ones used by their US counterparts. In the early 90s El Greco also re-released a handful of Generation 1 toys as pack-in gifts with Easter candles - a surprisingly common thing for toy manufacturers in the European market at the time!

1 Toys
2 Notes
3 External links

Toys

1986

Egkéfalos (Brawn) *
Gígantas (Huffer) *
Achtýpitos (Warpath) *
Kyríarchos (Cosmos) *
Keravnόs (Powerglide) *
Angeliofόros (Beachcomber)
Thalassόlykos (Seaspray) *

1990

Easter candle giftsets

Grimlock
Slingshot
Streetwise
Groove
First Aid
Dead End

1991

Defensor (giftset) *

Excavator (Devastator) (giftset)

Gígantas (Huffer)

* - Indicates toys with known differences compared to their original Hasbro / Takara versions

Notes

Interestingly, El Greco also produced Greek releases for a number of other Transformers-related franchises, like G.I. Joe (under its Action Force European name) and Micronauts (under the new name of Oi Astpomaxhtes).
It appears to have been a running mistake to sometimes place Huffer in Brawn blister cards, as multiple instances of this have been found on the secondary market.