toyboxdx toy blog brog: is graceful art of daily expressing japanese toy  

Here is my Underdog-Bot-Foto-Lovestory. I choose Popy’s Gonbesu
from the Kyodain series, because he really is a special piece of metal.
You love or hate him. If you hate him you could use
him as a cannonball or play boule with him.
You dont know boule? Ask the french…

Thats Gonbesu, Skyzel & Granzel’s buddy. The robotic bowling ball.
I tell you, he’s real heavy. It took a few years till I bought this robot,
because there was  always something else on top of  my “buy list”.
Gonbesu is not very sexy, compared to his two sidekicks Skyzel & Granzel.
But if you hold him in your hand. Hmmm, he’s not that bad.
Why didn’t I buy him earlier…

One of his action features are his “spring-loaded-legs”.

If you open the cover on his front, you find to yellow
buttons. Push them and the “spring-mechanism” of
the legs will be released.

Gonbesu comes with 3 little metal tools.
He could hold them in his magnetic hands.

Welcome to the family Gonbesu!

Sorry for this long Brog for this mediocre robot.

cheers all.

…Gonbesu is searching his buddies. More in the BBS section: http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?4,201491

CLICK HERE FOR A HIGH RES SHOT OF THAT AWESOME DANGARD JUMBO!!

Stolen from this crappy site that just LOVES to steal our shit without giving credit.. Just returning the favor. Vaffanculo!

My first, and still my favorite Popy Zenmai. If you have been thinking of getting your feet wet in the hellish world that is tin walkers, here is a good place to start. You won’t be disappointed.

I purchased my first Popy tin from Mike Z. He always knew before I did what drug I would pick next. But like any good dealer, they don’t let you know you are hooked until you arrive at the conclusion first.

Getta G was what I grew up with, but something about Getta 1 seduced my Western centric mind. Maybe the realization that my favorite Go Nagai creation, was not in fact the original incarnation. Like a child realizing later in life, they were not the first person to have awareness, I was stunned and excited by the simplicity and comparatively frugal horned ancestor to my childhood hero…the idea he was the first born and still relatively alien to me. Maybe even the idea that G1 and I were the same age… both constructed and introduced in 1974, appealed to my budding narcissistic tendencies. Mazinga was too old, Getta G too young. This porridge was just right

So began my subsequent pursuit of the perfect totem representation of this icon.

It started and ended with this toy. In my opinion, A sublime construct of color , balance and composition. A walking bit of Pop(y) art distilled and hidden for decades until Mike takes him out of the glass case and stuck a new thorn in my heart.

Wait for it.
Here it comes…

Obsessive desire to collect them all.

(Cue a decade long case of financial ruin and late night post auction stress disorder)

*twitch twitch*

When you see this pile of boxes, what do you think?
Well, boxes with big white stickers.
But THIS was the vain attempt to invade germany with chogokins
in the early 70ties.

Popy, Takatoku etc boxes where “localized” with simple stickers.

There are Ark, early Bandai boxes that are much better “localized” for the
german market. After the big success of Captain Future in the early 80ties
in germany Popy released german boxed versions of their CF toys.

Sorry Matt, no spectacular german box design ;-)

more: http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?4,199520

Mattel’s Shoguns are guilty. They transform me
into an addicted robot collector. All my childhood
memories flashed back, when I found that boxed
Shogun Warriors Dragun in the early 90ties.

I must have them all!
Well, after many years I still didn’t reach that goal…

…but this Daimos 2in1 is another important step forward for me.
Got him last week from france.

Parlez vous francais Monsieur Daimos?

Shogun Warriors Mania: http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?4,199412

Pretty much a vinyl clone of the Popy SG-01 in size & sculpt. You don’t see these very often, even less with the jet-pack — which is fastened to the body by a string!