Chikyu Sentai Fiveman's Star Five DX

[ZatoIchi]

Anyone have this robot from the Fiveman sentai series? If you do is it worth the money? The other day I saw him in one of my casual collector shops but I resited to buy one for some stupid reason.

From all the old Sentai series my favorite was Maskman (love Great Five). Unfortunately I never had the chance to watch Fiveman but both Five Robo and Star Five design seems to live up to the names of classic robots of my favorite childhood shows such as: Flashman, Google V and Maskman.


Please post your opinions (and if possible a few more pictures ;D ).

[admin1 aka Ed]

Is this the truck/flatbed robot? I can not recall the names which match to the robots.

Ed

[ZatoIchi]

admin1 said:

Is this the truck/flatbed robot? I can not recall the names which match to the robots.

Ed

Nope, this is the Space Ship robot, the other one is called Five Robo. Both of them were also released in a box to combine into the Super Five Robo. Robot-Japan & cooljapanese toys also has a picture of him in the gallery section.

Star Five DX (Star in the Box)

www.cooljapanesetoys.com/images/encyclopedia/images/bandai/plastic/sentairobot/06.jpg

www.cooljapanesetoys.com/images/encyclopedia/images/bandai/plastic/sentairobot/06bx.jpg

Five Robo DX(Great in the Box)

www.cooljapanesetoys.com/images/encyclopedia/images/bandai/diecast/sentai/07.jpg

www.cooljapanesetoys.com/images/encyclopedia/images/bandai/diecast/sentai/07bx.jpg

Brother Combination:

www.cooljapanesetoys.com/images/encyclopedia/images/bandai/diecast/sentai/08bx.jpg

This is from the old Bandai 1986 sentai Robot collection series. I just called the store and they told me they are selling him for around 40 bucks but some pieces are missing (shield and so on) and no box.

I also discovered that they also have another robot even older than the Fiveman series, the Turbo Robo DX (Turboranger). Although Star Five is made of Plastic (Five Robo is die cast though), Turbo Robo is made of die cast:

www.cooljapanesetoys.com/images/encyclopedia/images/bandai/diecast/sentai/05bx.jpg

They are selling him for almost the same price ( $50) and I don't think it is missing any pieces since I believe this robot doesn't come with any accessories.

So, is it a good deal? I may pick it up one of them today.

[JoshB]

there are three accessories to turborobo - a white shield, and two chrome guns. There may be a sword - i cant remember at the moment. The sheild and crome guns attach to the semi truck.

turborobo's great.

Both seem to be a good deal in USD.

Josh

[ZatoIchi]

I made a small mistake, the one they had for Turboranger wasn't Turborobo but Turborugger (I didn't even know they had a toy for this one) .

www.supersentai.com/database/turboranger/mecha.html


So I just decided to pick up Star Five ( the only thing missing is the shield and the cannon that you connect in spaceship mode, but I will display him in robot mode most of the time so it doesn't matter).

I know this is stupid question but since I don't have the manual how exactly do you transform from robot mode to spaceship mode?

The spaceship face is inside and I'm aware that the big legs comes off to connect to the sides, but the upper legs part doesn't let the space ship face come out. Can anyone post some large pictures of the spaceship from a few different angles?

Thanks.