Here’s the Bandai VF-1S Strike Valkyrie as piloted by Hikaru Ichijyo in “Do You Remember Love?” Macross movie in 1984. I purchased him in Kyoto, Japan 1985. You don’t see this one until the climatic ending of the movie.
VF-1S Strike Valkyrie 1/55 scale Bandai 1985 Hikaru Ichijyo from anime movie Do You Remember Love?
Another robot from the “Do You Remember Love?” Macross movie from 1985. This time, the VT-1J trainer. Again, this one didn’t have a large role in the movie. Here he is in toy form and the cartoon still.
Macross VT-1 Super Ostrich Hi-Metal Variable Trainer DX 1-55 scale Bandai 1985 Super Real Model- S-Heavy Version Japan
VT-1 Super Ostrich from the anime The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?
Here’s the VE-1 Elint (Electronic Intelligence) Seeker model from the “Do You Remember Love?” Macross movie of 1985. This model is designed to find and gather signals intelligence from the enemy. This robot had a limited release in Japan and they are relatively rare and really expensive!
As mentioned in the previous post, I purchased this from a small, mom and pop toy store in Kyoto Japan. I really had a lot of fun on my trips because my parents gave me so much leeway to explore and do things on my own (most likely because Japan is so safe). Anyway, I stumbled upon this little toy store and I saw this one, the VF-1T and the VF-1S Strike Valkyrie. I purchased all three at the same time because I wasn’t sure if I would ever see them again and as well, I wasn’t sure if I might make it back to that toy store.
Macross VE-1 Elintseeker Hi-Metal Variable Electric DX 1/55 scale Bandai 1985 Super Real Model-S – Heavy Version Japan
VE-1J Elintseeker in action from “Do You Remember Love?” Macross movie 1984
Below are the VT-1J Trainer (orange) and the VE-1J Elint Seeker from the “Do You Remember Love?” Macross movie from 1985. I vividly remember purchasing these from a small mom and pop toy store in Kyoto, Japan. I hadn’t seen the movie (yet) but realized it was a new release as these were entirely different robots and color schemes. The VT-1J and VE-1J didn’t play big roles in the movies – you only see them in bit parts. I included the cartoon stills as well.
I purchased these two as well as the VF-1S Strike Valkyrie from the same store. I’m trying to remember what I paid but I think I paid about 40 dollars each. These are fairly rare as they were never released in the U.S. I have seen the Strike Valkyrie in box go for a couple hundred to a thousand dollars in box. Sometimes, I wish I could have kept the box, but it just wasn’t possible since I easily purchased 15-20 robots a time on each trip and back then, suitcases weren’t that big. I ended up having to special freight my toys on JAL.
VT-1 Trainer and VE-1 ElintSeeker Macross 1985 Bandai 1-55 scale
Here are the anime stills of the Elintseeker and Super Ostrich. You better catch them quick or you might miss them. Both have very little screen time on the anime movie The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?.
I’ve finally gotten around to my Macross box and I took a group picture. Pictured is the entire collection from the Macross series (except for the few Destroid Defenders that I wasn’t particularly in to). These are probably my most favorite of all my entire collection. I don’t think I could ever part with these as these were such a big part of my child hood. I grew up with the cartoons and I purchased the toys while on various trips to Japan. I also received the brown VF-1A from my mom for Christmas in 1983. I remember it was almost a hundred dollars back then and I was VERY surprised she went all the way to Japantown to get it for me. I’ll never forget that.
Macross Collection includes the VF-1A, VF-1J, VF-1S, VT-1, VE-1, SDF-1, GBP-1S Fast Pack 1/55 Takatoku Toys and Bandai releases
Starvengers was one of my favorite anime early on. It was a lot better than Super Friends on Saturday mornings which I loved, but Starvengers has fared the test of time much better than Super Friends. These cartoons came out with Force Five, but I unfortunately did not see those cartoons. I will have to check those out. Maybe the OVAs have subtitles. It would be good to see the Getta Robos kick ass on the Pandemonium Empire again. Sure the bad guys were super cheesy, but it was still so much fun to watch.
Among Shogun Warriors robots this was my least favorite, but I am glad to have it to complete my set of Getta Robo robots. Probably just the color scheme on this one. The plastic has this odd yellowing I have never seen before. Odd, just noticed now I do not have the red missiles shown on the box.
Shogun Warriors Raider Mattel
Shogun Warriors Raider Mattel yellow missiles
Shogun Warriors Raider Mattel or Getter Liger in Japan
Since I have the most of the Shogun Warriors, I can pop in a picture of them together for a group photo into this post later. Pop in a comment below and I will get to it a little quicker. ***
Die-Cast Metal Shogun Warriors 5″ figure
Invincible Guardians of World Freedom!
Dragun Launches fist & battle axes! Rotate Arms, Launch Axe Launch Fist
Made in Japan Manufactured by Bandai Co. Ltd Distributed by Mattel
Copyright Toei Doga
I remember accidentally breaking off the little plastic spikes on his head. I was so pissed. No chance of Dr. Saotome fixing my robot. Now that I am looking at the copy on the box I realize how little these guys can do. You can’t pose them, they can’t bend, just rotate arms and shoot. I have heard the Japanese versions can bend their legs, whoopee! Though I can’t say my Star Wars figures did much more. Still this is my favorite Shogun Warrior they have a lot of nostalgia for me. The red one. Like a shiny red sports car, it really is the best color.
These Dragun, Poseidon, and Raider hail from Getter Robo G/Starvenger fame. Not sure why those franchises did not setup merchandising right for the robots in the US. Instead Marvel purchased the rights and used them for their comic book Shogun Warriors and the robot line we got to see in the US. It’s too bad they did not produce a matching cartoon. I am a little surprised that these did not end up in the GoDaiKin line instead as many of the Popy robots made their way there.
Just got done editing my cousin’s posts, so now I can start working on putting my collection up again. Happy Holidays everyone! ***
Dragun Shogun Warriors Mattel 1979
Dragun Shogun Warriors Mattel 1979
Shogun Warriors TWO-in-ONE 5 1/2 inches tall
Raydeen He’s a bowman! He’s a Bird!
Turn him into a bird! Launch his bow & shield! Rotate his arms! Make him roll on wheels! Push buttons! Launch fists! Bend his legs! Literally that is all this guy does summarized by the copy on the box.
Made in Japan  Manufactured by Bandai Distributed by Mattel
Copyright Tohoku Shinsa Film Co LTD.
Too bad all the Shogun Warriors are all from different studios. It would have been nice to see them all in one cartoon. These were my favorite robots growing up. I was totally into these before my cousin came back from Japan with his Macross Takatoku Valkyrie. I loved shooting off the fists and smacking them into each other. These robots are probably why I love those heavy old die cast metal robots. I watched some of the Getta Robo(or is it Getter Robo?) as Starvengers cartoons on the old Betamax or VHS with my cousin before Transformers came out and I have loved robots ever since. I don’t have any of my original Shogun Warriors, but here is one of the new ones I got off eBay.
Looks like Raideen had his own show as Brave Raideen. It was the first robot anime to reach the US via Hawaii per Wikipedia. Looks like the only was to see it is on Youtube. I see some download versions as well, but I prefer not to download stuff from people I don’t know.
 
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Here’s most of the Gundams that I have recently purchased. The 3 on the top shelf are models, that I’m displaying since the models may get broken if I try to re-pack them. Most of the stuff I have displayed are Gundam but I have a few Transformers and Diarobos since they’re small.
Dave’s Collection mostly shows Gundam 4.5″, 7.5″, Deluxe 12″, with a sprinkling of Transformer robots
Dave’s Collection mostly shows Gundam 4.5″, 7.5″, Deluxe 12″, with Transformers robots
Since I picked up a bunch of these, I decided to put up a Gundam theme display of my 4.5″, 7.5″ and 12″ Bandai Mobile Fighter Action Figures
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