When Are the Shogun Warriors Figures Coming Out Again?

Shogun Warriors

Who can forget these awesome missile-launching plastic giants!? Shogun Warriors were a line of toys, fabricated by Mattel during the late 1970s that consisted of a serial of imported Japanese robots all based on so-popular giant robot anime shows. They were manufactured in a number of sizes, the most common the 24 inch plastic versions and the 3.5 inch diecast metal versions.  My brother and I loved Mazinga and his little rocket-ship brain was spotted all over our firm.

The nigh bonny features on these toys were the jump loaded launcher weapons such every bit missiles, star shuriken, and battleaxes. Some robots were able to launch their fists. The diecast versions of these toys likewise had the ability to transform. Grandizer, for instance, was changeable into a saucerlike spaceship. But dissimilar the 80s Transformers, Shogun Warriors transformations were based on dissasembly and reassembly into a new mode.

Like certain other toy lines of the 70s, the Shogun Warriors came under pressure due to safe concerns regarding their bound loaded weapons.  Mattel was striking hardest considering quite frankly, they were the masters of the jump-loaded weapon!  Toy manufacturers were facing new regulations due to reported child injuries every bit a result of playing with these toys. Consequently, many toy companies were forced to remodel existing toylines with kid safety variations (such as spring loaded "activeness" missiles that would remain attached to the toy). For this reason, also as decreasing sales, the Shogun Warriors line disappeared past 1980.

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24" Colossal Machinders         five" Die-Cast Shogun Warriors          6" Ii-in-One Shogun Warriors

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24" Jumbo Machinders

My personal favorite of the line are the 24" Shogun Warriors (chosen Colossal Machinders in Nippon).  These bad boys await awesome on display but apart from that, they are a boom to play with.  Launching missiles and flying fists - think of the choking hazards!  There were seven released in the United States and quite a few variants over-seas likewise.

The 24" line included:  Mazinga, Gaiking, Daimos, Dragun and Raydeen as well as Godzilla and Rodan.

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Mazinga        Gaiking        Daimos       Dragun       Raydeen

Godzilla       Rodan

Mazinga

Ah yes, the crown jewel.  Mazinga is by far the almost popular of the Colossal Machinders.  He is action packed with two swords, a gunkhole-load of missles that shoot from his launching hand and a launching fist.  Mazinga was a comic book hero in Japan prior to Mattel'southward creation in this toy line and to this day, Japanese toy companies creepo out small-scale and large versions of Mazinga to be sold all over the earth.  At that place are ii versions of Mazinga: the starting time version with detachable brain ship and pointed chest emblem (which tin poke your centre out) and the second version which does non have the deatchable brainship and a more safe chest logo (see bottom photograph).

Version two

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Gaiking

Although he has never been one of my favorite, Gaiking is a highly loved Shogun Warrior and is probably the 2d most popular of the 24" Jumbo Machinder line.  For some reason, the behemothic face on his chest just bugs me.  He has two shooting missiles (the eyes) that are launched from his chest by a trigger in back as well as a launching right forearm.  Otherwise, pretty basic.

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Daimos

Daimos is probably the hardest U.S. released Shogun Warrior to detect.  He was the last of the Big 5 to striking the market and quite bluntly, he wasnt very pop.  He features a shooting fist and two large puffy "child-condom" rockets on his calves.  Slow!  Bring back the niggling choking hazards!

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Dragun

When it comes to gadgetry, no Shogun beats Dragun!  That big contraption on his right wrist is a shuriken launcher!  That's right, you load up the niggling stars in it and they launch!  Totally awesome.  Only wait!  There's more than!  Dragun as well launches axes from his left arm!  Granted they are tiny and out of scale, and they are often mistaken for He-Man axes, but they really do launch.

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Raydeen

Taken straight from the pages of Japanese robot comics comes Raydeen!  Raydeen featured a launching left forearm and 5 spring-loaded launching piffling planes that fly out from his chest.  An awesome toy.

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Godzilla

If I were to rank my all-time favorite toys, Godzilla would be in the Elevation 10 for sure.  He is huge, has a firing fist, a lever-operated tongue and rolls!  Who tin beat that!?  The yellow toes are oftentimes cleaved off and the tail detaches easily, so keep your eyes out for those parts when you are looking to selection ane up.

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Rodan

Ok, Rodan just rocks.  This photo shows him without his horns attached (run into box photo).  His dorsum has holes for inserting your fingers and you can make his wings flap and jaw chomp.  Rubber bands do the trick.  Basically, he is just a kicking-ass boob with a iii foot wingspan!  He was not sold every bit a Shogun Warrior but is office of the Mattel Toho trademarked line.

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5" Die-Cast Shogun Warriors

Mattel as well released a series of four smaller die-cast Shogun Warriors with lots of awesome features and shooting parts.  Different versions of the iv robots were released.  Later versions take less functionality in the toy as features were dropped. Be careful of which version y'all purchase because the 2nd and 3rd versions are not as valuable.

The 5" line included Great Mazinga, Raider, Dragun and Poseidon.

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2-in-1 Shogun Warriors

The 2-in-Ones were some of the kickoff transforming robots to be mass marketed in the US. Although the transformations and alternating modes were defective, at best, these could be considered the predecessors that paved the way for the later Transformers and Gobots.

The main release ii-in-one Shoguns included: Raydeen, Gaiking, Danguard, Daimos and Voltes-Five.

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3" Collector's Series

Tardily in the Shogun Warriors toy line life, Mattel cracked out iii" "Collector's Series" Shogun Warriors.  These are very basic and take no existent "features" which were the authentication of the Shogun Warriors line.

Included in the initial release in this line were: Combatra, Great Mazinga, Dragun, Grandizer, Gaiking and Poseidon (shown below). The 2d release added Dangard, Leopaldon, Voltes 5 and 17, and re-released the initial 6 with different boxes and box back graphics.  Many of these figures were later released as Mini-Godaikins (in that location is well-nigh no difference in the actual figures (GoDaikins have "Taiwan" in stead of "Japan" embossed on them an too are covered with metallic decals) and due to this confusion, prices on loose figures vary tremendously).

Combattra, Leopoldan and Poseidon

"17", Grandizer and Gaiking

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Vehicles

Mattel unleashed a number of nutty vehicles on the world, in part inspired by Mego's Micronauts line.  Many of these are re-released of Japanese-sold toys marketed by Toho.  Most were from tv set shows in Japan called Kyodain and GoRanger.  I dont recall every having any of these (or fifty-fifty seeing them when I was a child) but they are quite common now.  They feature many dangerous choking hazards!  There are a few  awesome ones like the super rare (and valuable) Kargosaur!

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Did Yous Know?

Among the variations of the Mattel Shogun Warriors is a super absurd Raydeen equipped with a xanthous "bow" in place of the 2-handed axe.  This version was sold in Europe merely merely is a pretty interesting variation.

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