Sketchbot by @stevetalkowski joins the collection. Pencil-wielding with a bit of attitude. Got him in AZ @lulubell_toys
NEW BOT MONDAY: Super Electromagnetic Machine Voltes V. My most favorite Bot of all. ボルテス are the first Japanese ideograms I ever copied onto paper. Predates Voltron, with which it is confused, by 6 or 7 years. Famously banned by the dictatorial Marcos regime because of revolutionary ideas. Beloved by Filipinos of a certain age. Voltes V is the bot that made me fall in love with bots. Those toys are too highly priced to buy, but this one is a fine interim purchase.
This week has been rough. What better balm than new bot Friday? GoShogun (ゴーショーグン) hails from 1981 anime and film. The toy is from 1999 and I dig it.
Me, Raideen (sic) & Mazinga (sic). North of $200 each and too tall for the collection. Oceanside Antique Bots!
New Bot, Trek’s Q & #imwithher
Kikaider (キカイダー) hails from 1972. Oftentimes I get suggestions from friends on bots I never heard of and I finally found an affordable Kikaider. Thanks @james47ag for inspiring today’s New Bot Monday!
Just talkin’ bout Mechagodzilla, Hello Kitty, BB-8, wind-up toys, and robot collecting with Summer.
New Bot Tuesday! Gort made his debut in 1951 in the classic film The Day The Earth Stood Still. Pictured with fellow 1950s-era robots. Klaatu barada nikto!
Any trip I take may contain robot shopping. It seemed like our Virginia/Outer Banks trip would be an exception until on a whim I took us to the Virginia Beach Antique Mall where “The Toymeister” has a huge toys and collectibles section upstairs. Many robots and other toys, well curated, well cared for. Star Wars, vintage, TMNT, sports, action figures, dolls, Marvel, DC, it’s an impressive store well worth a visit.
Of course I miss working with my bots. Luckily there’s a robot or two belonging to my nephews here.
Major question of the weekend is whether I’m going to buy the Black Power Droid (Gonk!) and/or The Beastie Droids from DKE Toys. Handmade, funny… #sdcc
TRIPLE ROBOT SELFIES! #sdcc is a big win so far.
Throw your hands in the air, if youse a true player #bots
Sisterhood.
New Bot Monday! Venus A [ビューナスA] is from the Mazinger universe circa 1975-ish. She’s a giant robot driven by biracial (Japanese/African-American) heroine Jun Hono. She drives the Venus Scrander that flies into the back of her head. Her hands-on-hips pose exemplifies her power!
Libraries with Makerbot 3-D Digitizers are 21st Century Libraries.
Stopped into @super7sandiego — super awesome shop but did not buy today. But I’ll be back! Any store with Jumbo Machinder is okay by me!
Current Bot Cuteness Corner
HELLO KITTY CHOGOKIN (look it up) — New Bot Wednesday features ハロー・キティdriving a giant robot of herself. The paws really shoot!
Tomorrow’s bot will exceed all cuteness expectations. #Mecha #Jaeger
Cousins
It’s another big week for bots! This is “ZnDc Missler” made in the 1970s by Yonezawa.
Acquired at Planet Books in Long Beach. Don’t know the name or the age but I sure like this bot.
New Bot Wednesday! Another Q Pop acquisition. This is Mad Baron! He was designed by Zollmen and hails from Japan. Vinyl Artist Gacha series 3.
New Bot Day! Raideen (勇者ライディーン) hails from 1975 Japanese tv. Like many of my bots I first encountered him in the Philippines. When I saw the Shogun Warriors back in the States I was happy they brought him over but mystified why they changed the spelling of his name to Raydeen. I picked up this superdeformed rendering of him at Q Pop Shop @qpopshop in Little Tokyo. #Raideen
Scarcely a visit to Little Tokyo without a bot photo. Astro Boy is sold out.
Just because I’m not taking him home doesn’t mean I don’t love him. Farewell little plush robot.
The Big Guy & Rusty are my jam. This week.
SPACE BATTLE SPACE ROBOT was too tall for the collection, regrettably. Pretty good for a drugstore robot though. I believe I’ve made it clear I’m always low key robot hunting. Thankfully the rules for collecting are strict and I’m picky.
Now here’s a good omen: I was driving down Mira Mesa Blvd and caught this little robot out of the corner of my eye. Love it!
Getter Liger & the other Getter Bots all have great machinder designs but I have a hard time keeping their names straight.
Birthday mug. Birthday robot. Getter Liger acquired this weekend.
Also not purchased but quite nice: A Fembot from Austin Powers & Bishop from Aliens.
Blast From The Past in Burbank sure has some fun stuff for the middle-aged toy nerd. I walked out with the fellow on the left: Getter Liger. A late birthday gift to myself and quite nice. I already have an Iron Giant and for the price that little Cylon didn’t bowl me over. Such nice things!
Here’s to cuties.
Yesterday was tops. Tomorrow’s even better. 46 here I am.
Second String Bots of the Week
Today’s Top 9 Bots. Next time I see them I’ll be 46.
Me, WALL-E & Doreamon wish Diana a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Bad Guy Day with Bots: ED-209, King Joe, Terminator, Imperializer & chibi Mechagodzilla!
B-9 Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot joins other 50s & 60s style bots for New Bot Tuesday!
Enforcement Droid 209 comes from RoboCop (1987). ED-209 is incompetently designed and hilariously deadly. New Bot Monday has never been scarier.
Buddies! New Bot Wednesday includes BB-8 meeting Artoo.
Time to go to work. #bb8
Data joins the bots! One of the most asked-about absences from my collection has been added. #StarTrek
New Bot Monday! Planet Robo Danguard Ace (惑星ロボ ダンガードA (エース) who I met in 1978 in the Philippines and became a Shogun Warrior in the US when I got home. Great design.
Seattle bound in the morning. See you in a week bots!
I consider buying Mazinger Z & Great Mazinger every time I see these but they’re not my style. From yesterday.
Captain BB-8 by local artist Mark Kessler. Lovely sculpture showing at Villanous Lair!
New Bot Thursday! It’s Plex from Yo Gabba Gabba who I learned about from Godson Archer. Let’s go to work!
Really not a vacation until I take a selfie with a robot. #bb-8
Christmas New Bot Tuesday! Everyone’s favorite transdimensional robot cat Doreamon!
Cute bots are cute. Who’s cutest?
This #Sparki robot at #sdmakerfaire was the cutest off-the-shelf sensing programmable bot.
Selfie with Giant Robot because I’m me. #sdmakerfaire
Even Daggits dream of Earth. New robot Tuesday starring Muffit II.
I would totally watch this tv show. Networks listen up. #Baymax #GirlRobot
The Astro Boys at Meltdown yesterday were wonderful. What’s the collective noun for Mighty Atoms?
Big-O wins “largest forearms” contests all over.
He winks! Rotary phone chest! Teddy bear decal! Phone handsets for arms! CUTEST NEW BOT EVER.
New Bot Day! This is the Big-O mechs from the 1999 anime that is named for him. He’s lovely!
New bot! Maria, or rather the “False Maria” from 1927’s classic silent film “Metropolis.” Liberties were taken with this rendering of her design.
Moving out of the temporary digs today and into the repainted and recarpeted office.
Temporary digs.
My Ultramen celebrate today’s birthday of Eiji Tsuburaya! Kudos to Google for honoring him!
Aguacates y los robots en el almuerzo.
My nephew has cool toys.
With a robot Peacock.
“Affirmative, Master” says K-9 in Union Square NYC. Thursday is new bot day!
It’s not a vacation unless I can get a selfie with a robot.
New Wind Up Robot family member! I don’t have a name but cost $5.25 as priced by Suzi so we’ll call him or her Suzi-525.
New robot, Ms. Marvel, lagoon in Carlsbad, Golden Hour. Nearly home.
Leah bought me this fellow ❤️
Seattle, I came for a wedding but managed to look at robots too. Farewell, it was cool.
Today needed more color. Here it is.
Instant Hand Sanitizer is not a robot.
It’s a four robot week: Mazinger, Mekanda (latest!), Grendizer & Combattler.
Mechander Robo 合身戦隊メカンダーロボ (Gasshin Sentai Mekandā Robo) & heirloom cherry tomatoes.
GRENDIZER and MAZINGER go Radio Raheem/Night of the Hunter for you. LOVE/HATE.
March has been non-stop bots! In September I backed Kickstarter Project: Vulkira, an original design vinyl giant robot. He arrived yesterday and joins my collection today!
Crimson Typhoon (2013) & Grendizer (1975) are here to save the day!
Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atomu) sleeping yesterday morning in Little Tokyo.
Today began with a new bot from my favorite person, @leah7peah to wish me Happy Birthday!
I found WALL-E in St. George at Comics Plus.
It’s a big week for new bots! New Mazinger Z & Aphrodite A. Bigger & Deffer!
Feliz Cumpleaños
Happy Early Birthday To Me. Acquisitions from a great long day yesterday.
My other not-purchased bots from Frank & Son today.
Too tall. Missing antenna. But really really really nice Combatra. Did not buy.
My bots love The Red Velvet Spoon Case @dairyqueen sent. Happy Valentine’s Day! #BreakTheCliché
New Bot Tuesday! “Imperializer” a villain of the Ultraman series. Found at Anime Jungle in L.A.!
New Bot Thursday! Robbie The Robot. 2014 toy from a CLASSIC 1956 robot.
I need a lot of different stuff on my desk this week.
Have a robotic new year!
Christmas was new bot day. Welcome Baymax from Big Hero 6 + cat Mochi. Thanks Leah!
My helper bots this week. It’s been a busy week. Happy Thanksgiving!
