Comments on: Space Robots : UFO Series

By: DVC

DVC — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:55:31 +0000

A few familiar pieces there…

Hmm:

"The Stateside push was sponsored by Honolulu-based Marukai Trading Co., Ltd., who distributed a large line of Japanese-produced merchandise (as well as some Hawaii-produced items, such as tee-shirts) to local retailers in localities airing Brave Raideen — including Popy's Jumbo Machinder (which may account for Mattel's launching of the popular Shogun Warriors line in the U.S.), according to author August Ragone."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_Raideen#International_release

Time machine, please!

P.S. While googling that UFO Base I learned that Nakajima also made some die-cast robots I had as a kid — Thanks for the post : )

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:19:26 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9HZ9k8rR8k&feature=player_embedded

Nice

By: plasticfetish

plasticfetish — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:39:15 +0000

There's a lot of great things in that photo. A bunch of the die-cast was by a company named "Ark", and I owned and loved the Baltan toy when I was a kid. Marukai is a great market, and I was still buying imported (Ultraman, Godzilla, etc.) candy toys from them up until the time I left Southern California a few years ago. They have excellent seafood also BTW. 😉

By: ekolad

ekolad — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:41:42 +0000

as i recall it was a pretty heavy toy, seemed like it was made of solid metal - built like a tank! but with very limited articulation.

just sayin' ;-)

By: ekolad

ekolad — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:29:44 +0000

pretty certain i had that 'gloizer robo' – bought on a holiday in italy. don't recall any of these being available here in the UK.