Starblazer's IQ9 robot by Nomura

IQ9 Analyzer robot, Nomura, 1978, Japan

 

page out of 1978 Nomura catalog

To see which other toys Nomura made for the Starblazers / Yamato series, please go and see this page.

Big thanks to Didier Volckaert and the wonderful store MUCHWOW in Ghent where I got this beauty !

Paper planes ? Nope - styrofoam spaceships !

Colors are hard to print on styrene !

This is a strange Comet...only 1 wing!

Outer Space Gliders, Taiwan, 1980's

The YAMATO gun...

Yamato Space gun, Popy, Japan, 1970's

I collect space guns and Leji Matsumoto's heroes, and it is nice to have a toy that fit in both categories. Maybe the strangest space gun ever - but it has all the details of the Yamato space ship - and it takes a battery and makes space sounds !

yes, battery goes in the grip.

Boxart is very nice !

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Turret detail

Yamato's IQ-9

Can't fly a spaceship without him...

IQ-9 (windup), Popy, Japan, 1970's

Yamato in the stars...

Some Japanese series made it to the States and not to Belgium... This is one of them.

Funny how the crown jewel of the Imperial fleet during WW2 transformed into a fully pledged spaceship... time goes on and repeats itself in Leji Matsumoto's world.

Space Battleship Yamato, Mimuko Co. Ltd., Japan, 1990's
(reedition of original POPY Toy from 1978)