Fresh from China...

Captain America, Decool, China, 2010's

Iron Man, Decool, China, 2010's

Robots or super-heroes ? No one could tell. But what I do know is that these were quite fun to build ! Lego Style ! And you can even combine the two to make a Giant Iron Captain America man somehow... East meets West, and (not so) communist China takes symbols of capitalistic Comic Book culture to sell back to... well, to us !

Thank you Gonçalo for bringing these in !

Little Werner... playing with rockets, again !

The real deal, unfortunately not meant to be filled  only with water or air...(V2 - Peenemunde)

Satelitte was meant to go on top, and would spin down as a helicopter...

V-X Satellit, pump and funnel (below rocket), Bebu, Germany, 1950's

And yes, ... 20 years later men landed on the moon...

Von Braun and Kennedy, watching them fly !

Green with antenas !

Mini Robot (with paper TV screen !)
Hong Kong, 1970's

Sometimes nice things go in small packages... this is one of them. all shinny and chromy. And it is small... and still affordable when you can find one...

Smoking is bad for your health, Yeah !

Turn my antenna baby !

Bender, Rocket USA, China, 2000

... Unless of course your name is Bender and you are one of the most irresponsible robots on the planet. What ? and you drink, too ? I just thought you were not allowed to make toys like this anymore... you know, openly pushing teenagers into smoking and drinking...

Totally socially unacceptable.

For more strange and weird toys check these links :

weirdotoys
digthatbox
cracked

Optimus Prime

Optimus Prime, ?, China, 2010's

The crazyness of the Shogun Warriors made way to a whole new bunch of super robots in the 1980's. And the Transformer's line were certainly some of them. Here their leader, mighty Optimus Prime.

You remember the 'toon ?

Going Black and White on the collection...

Iti is really remarkable what black and white can do to otherwise very colorfull objects ! 

Grendizer's Beauty Salon...

Goldrake (shampoo bottle), Aldimport Mestrino,
Italy, 1978

What a nice way to get your kids to have some basic respect for capilar hygiene... Just get the shampoo inside their favorite robot and... voilá !

Once again, Goldrake saved the day !

Hope it was not lead paint... 

... battledamage from H2O ?

El hombre de acero...

Superman, EURA, Spain, 1970-80's ?

Not much is known about Spanish company EURA, except that they made some nice little rubber figurines.
Here is Superman.

One extra Metro, please... it's to chew on the road !

Metro Candy Container, Bonbons MAY,
France, 1982

This one is a candy container. It had a Chewing-gum "Trésor" in its belly ! Nice addition to the rest of the gang - check them out here.

RX78 - Big scale.

Of all Gundams, this one has to be the most popular ! It is the bot that started it all. The one that defended the first Zakus attacks... it is even the one to build real size. Yes. really... they did it a couple of years ago in Tokyo (Odaiba's Shiokaze Park). - to see more, click here. 

RX78 MegaSize Model, Bandai, China, 2000's

Building was a snap !

Lots of articulations... 

...and even more decals!

Microman... and women ?

Microman (?) with sarcophagus, China, 1999

Why the Statue of Liberty ? 

In toy history, the Microman toy line from Takara (Japan) has great importance and paved the way to the oh-so-popular Transformer toys in the 80ies. The toy line started in Japan in 1974, and some of the figures soon made their way to the USA under the Micronauts toy-line (imported directly through Mego Corp.)

Some really cool web-sites are devoted to these, and are worth checking :

http://www.micro-outpost.com/

http://www.microforever.com/

Supergril, Takara, China, 2006

Packaging all pink and girly !

The nice thing about these figurines is that they are/were fully articulated. While Kenner and Palitoy were making stiffness the norm in their Star Wars / Action Force lines, Takara on the other hand was able to get about 30 (yes, thir-ty !) arculation points in their line. And all of this in a 3 3/4 inch figurine !

Furthermore, they came with ton of accessories, and could swap out parts from one figurine to another. At a certain point, they even introduced figurines with magnetized joints ! Tomy - Takara is continuing the line nowedays...

Magneforce ! or magnetic joints...

Icurus, Takara, China, 2005

Microsister Orga, Takara, China, 2005

No need for surgery, doc !

Evangelion set, Takara, China, 2007

Extra hands, weapons, display stands, ... 

And another radar robot... these just keep appearing!

 What's the dot on the forehead all about ? Robot for the Hindi market ?

Radar Robot, ?; Hong Kong (?), 1970's

No legs on this one... just little wheels
and friction mechanism !

PansonWorks - how cute can you get ?

Getter

Boss Robot

Grandizer

 PansonWorks made a serie of adorable figurines of some of my favorite Shoguns. Made by Banpresto (China) in the 2010's... These were originally not sold but could be won as prizes in Japan.

Robocon and Princess

Black and White and regular Mazinger

Build it yourself !

Wooden robot kit, Wu & Wu entertainment, China, 2010's

A nice box for this "repro" old robot model kit. Incredibly, there were a number of robots made as wooden kits in Japan in the 50ies. They even had moving mechanisms. This one here, well, .... just some wooden blocks to glue together and paint (paint, glue and brush included). But the idea is nice though, and the box spectacular !