robothut Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 Here is a Wonder Robo (plastic battery operated kit) still in box unbuilt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robothut Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 Here is a T28 wind up plastic robot kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasticaugie Posted August 16, 2008 Author Share Posted August 16, 2008 John, does the V-3 have missiles that shoot out of the fists? Also do you have the decal sheet that came with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robothut Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 Many times the box art is much better than the robot kit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robothut Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 Plastic battery walking robot kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robothut Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 Wind up robot commando kit , I have both assembled and non assembled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robothut Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 Here are the side pannels for 6 Tomy plastic motorized robot kits. Yea too lazy to take them out and turn them around for 6 pictures. All unbuilt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robothut Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 2 more kits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robothut Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 There would not be any Japan plastic robot kits if they had not already been makeing other robot kits from the 1950's some were metal "I have a all brass robot kit that is wind up" but most were wood. If you do a search on Alphadrome for Wood robots or wood robot kits you should find some ols posts from Henk , David K. and myself showing alot of vintage wood robot kits and custom wood robots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasticaugie Posted August 16, 2008 Author Share Posted August 16, 2008 There would not be any Japan plastic robot kits if they had not already been makeing other robot kits from the 1950's some were metal "I have a all brass robot kit that is wind up" but most were wood. If you do a search on Alphadrome for Wood robots or wood robot kits you should find some ols posts from Henk , David K. and myself showing alot of vintage wood robot kits and custom wood robots.Yeah, I remember these. What were there three or four max? The explosion started in the 60's with the original Imai pinwalker T-28, much like the jumbo machinder explosion started with the original Mazinger Z. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robothut Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 The R-35 wood robot kit posted by Gernot and the link to a wood robot thread. http://danefield.com/alpha/forums/index.ph...hl=wooden+robot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkrobot Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 John,,,,,you really are the King of robot collecting you dont seem to miss out on any robot of importance ,,,as you said some of the robots shown here are worth having for the box art alone.......That wooden R-35 that Gernot showed us originally is getting more and more desirable every time I see it,,would you say it's very rare? and if it is ,,does this alone make it expensive?,,or do you think it's a bit too quirky for many robot collectors and therefore would not command a high price ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasticaugie Posted August 16, 2008 Author Share Posted August 16, 2008 Wooden robots, what's next robot pinatas? The amazing thing about these kits from the 60's is that they were sold mainly for the Japanese market, while many of the other assembled toys were made for export. You see in a lot of other forums about Japanese toys people regarding the American, or European versions of the toys as being "dumbed down". From Shogun Warriors to Transformers the best stuff was always sold in Japan to the Japanese. The 60's kits are a prime example of this. To say that there would not be any plastic kits if it were not for the 50's wooden kits is ridiculous. Plastic model kits were very popular in Japan and around the world since the early 50's. Some of the holy grails of toy collecting are motorized kits. Look at the Marusan Godzilla series, some of these fetch upwards of $10 grand and they were sold only in Japan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dratomic Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 Finally built my first mechanized robot model. It's a reproduction of Imai's T-28, done in the bling-riffic gold color. The toy features a wired remote control with two levers -- one turns the lights on and off, the other makes the robot walk forward with swinging arms. I had to supply the motor myself, but the model kit came with LEDs, wire, and battery connections. Building it wasn't particularly tough, through the wiring gave me a few moments of head-scratching -- the diagrams were so-so, and I couldn't read the annotations as they were in Japanese. Still, I figured it all out... Once these things are put together, you'd never know they weren't full production toys. I mean, the plastic's a little thinner, but other than that, there's no difference in quality between something put together by the kids and something put together in the manufacturing plant -- they were all pretty cheap! However, there was some added pleasure in putting it together myself... though that could also be the fumes from the glue talking... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robothut Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 Brian do you have a source for the kit you just built that you can share with us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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