The POP phenomenon gets to Gotham...

Stores have opened here in Portugal with these things... At Comic Con, it was the latest rage... It's POP! My only regret : they could have made these with rolling wheels so you could actually play with the car...

The caped crusader

POP! Batmobile, Funko, China, 2015

Men are from Mars...

Venus robot, Yoshiya, Japan, 1965

Tin face and chest litho, rest is plastic !

 This little bot has one of the most simple, square and plain designs in the botworld. 

Ho Ho Ho !

 Only 3 more days...

clean your chimneys !

Windup Santa, ?, Hong Kong, 1970's

Getter 3

Giving hugs !

It's a tank ? It's a robot ? Oh come on... how hard can this be ! Just go and save the world and come back on time to have a cup of coffee !

Getter 3 (header card), Popy, Japan, 1970's

Going geeky at Comic-Con Portugal

Travel-mates

Waiting for Ripley

Expensive Bruce

... and with my plumber !

Bounty Hunter on throne...

Lots of toys and T-shirts and Artists and TV stations and ... well, a time well spent !

Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot

Pinguin, Quick (kid's menu toy), China, 1990's

Well, this Pinguin did eat a lot of KINGFISH burgers at the Quick Hamburger Restaurant !

It's Stretchy ! A Lego toy you don't have to build !

From the "Little Robot" TV series (see here). Stretchy was the master of the junkyard...

Stretchy robot, Lego, ?,2003

Has number 1323 stamped on left foot

A fine example of mixing a robot with a boiler with a giraffe... Oh and the radar ears ? Any idea where that design came from ? English BBC shows !

A couple of Tryders...

Mighty S-Robot (aka Tryder Robot), ?, Taiwan, 1980's

Tryder Robot, Clover, Japan, 1980

Parts galore, can you spot the error ?

Diecut sheet of space scraps / cards

My latest find on the Feira... a full sheet of very cool English space-images from a company called MPL. Anyone got more information about these ?

(from top left to bottom right:)

1. Recharging energy in space for a further journey

2. International landing stage for goods traffic

3. Catapult safety seats for space ships

4. Tourist travel by combined hotel-space omnibus

5. Mooring tower, with rocket platforms, on Mars

6. A space rocket from Earth landing on Venus

7. Outer-space meteorological observatory

8. Landing on the Moon

(from top left to bottom right:)

1. Mid-ocean emergency landing stage

2. Wingless, death-ray fighter planes

3. Hospital space-ship

4. An echelon of flying saucers

5. A solo rocket helicopter

6. Interplanetary power station and maintenance depot

7. Space hydroplane on a lagoon on Jupiter

8. A giant interspace transport rocket

Cool lightsaber Darth... see-saw version ?

Darth Vader, Burger King toy, 2005, China

The circus is in town !

Circus CHoo CHoo, Daiya, Japan, 1960's

Going to the moon... going, going... and gone

These little sets from the 70ies date back to a time when moonwalks were still shown on the television sets around the world each night. Then the Apollo missions ended... and a lot of the magic too.

Exploring on the moon, LP, Hong Kong, 1970'ies

In space, no one can hear you scream... So just shut up !

"Big Chap" Alien vinyl bust bank. Diamond Select, China, 2016

H.R. Giger's design at its best !

Buck Rogers' ride in 1936

Buck Rogers Rocket Fighter, Wyandotte, USA, 1936

Is it a blimp ? 

Well, at least it has fins !

 

And undercarriage... 

Some original artwork for the period...

False Zeroids ?

Astroid Robots, Durham Ind. Hong Kong, 1970's

The blue one looks like Zerak...

... and the orange one like Zobor

If there ever is a "design" of the 70ies for robots, this is it. All plastic with tracks and computer-paper-stickers on their chests. 

A little taller than the real battery-operated ones from Ideal !
Well, they had to put the windup mechanism somewhere...

Do not expose the Mogwai to bright lights or sunlight which will kill it, do not let it get wet, and never feed it after midnight...

Gizmo, maker ?, 1980's

Another classic coming straight from the 80ies...  The ultimate pet to have... or not... 

Show me your colours, Shogun style...

UFO Robot Grendizer, Dynamic Heroes, Medicom, Japan, 2016

This is the retro color version of the new Medicom Sofubi of our favorite robot ! They really went old school with this toy and took as model the color scheme of the Popy Jumbo robot of the 70ies. Sweet!

Hazard County...

gone jumping ?

General Lee, Malibu Int. Ltd., China, 2006

oh yeah, it has the buzzer sound !

Even with the controversy regarding the flag on the roof, this car was an 80ies TV star of its own...

Read more about it here.