Ippatsuman, some old Tatsunoko show I've never seen...This is one of several Godaikin-sized toys made by Takatoku....beautifully made like most TT stuff. This must be a weird show.
I passed up a chance to buy one of these for $30 way back when, and
I've been sick about it ever since! I'm so happy I finally found another!
This "Tokkyu Mammoth" is another mecha from Ippatsuman.
Just your basic mechanical elephant with retractable missile launcher,
also by Takatoku.
I think Govarian is an old Go Nagai show; note the resemblance to Mazinger. This is a great toy with a high proportion of die-cast metal to plastic, molded in interesting colors. It transforms (not very convincingly) into a sort of tank and stands about 8 inches tall. This is the only toy I have made by POEM. I also have a very good Taiwanese copy of this toy.
Irongear from the show Xabungle. This is a large toy - Godaikin-sized - with the same sort of packaging. Really well made, it's the only large toy of this type I've seen that was made by Clover.
Grendizer was really big in Europe. These (above) are from snap-together
Italian kits. In France he was called Goldorak; in Italy, Goldrake.
Go on, do a web search for Grendizer; you'll find most pages are
in French or Italian - but there is a Grendizer
page in English. Quite a few of these old mecha shows were very popular
in Europe, and there seem to be a lot of robot lovers there, especially
in Italy.
This is one of those fantastic Popy toys from the 70s. Grendizer
stands about 3" tall; the saucer is almost 100% die-cast.
(PA-61)
Chogokin
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Popynika
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