🤖 Robots
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03-Oct-2016
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! -
23-Aug-2016
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! -
13-Jun-2016
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! -
25-May-2016
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! -
18-May-2016
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. -
17-May-2016
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 -
01-Mar-2016
B-9 Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot joins other 50s & 60s style bots for New Bot Tuesday! -
22-Feb-2016
Enforcement Droid 209 comes from RoboCop (1987). ED-209 is incompetently designed and hilariously deadly. New Bot Monday has never been scarier. -
17-Feb-2016
Buddies! New Bot Wednesday includes BB-8 meeting Artoo. -
08-Feb-2016
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.