HELP, who are these two robots

[slotdemon]

Hi, I was hoping some of you guys could help me figure out who these two robots are. I built them as a kid, but I don't have a clue what they are really from.

[Falconhood]

PatLabor! the black one is Griffon, i have him. The other is Gun something

[Falconhood]

www.imageanime.com/patlabor.html the green one is Helldiver...but he looks like a big gun, that's what i recalled.

[Ben-Ohki]

Wow - the new school becomes the old school. I feel old.
I was in college when my buddies and I joined an anime club in the "big city" (we had to drive an hour and a half to get to that club so we made it a shopping trip since the club meetings were only in the evening. We'd go to this gaming/enthusiast store in town and I remember buying those Bandai kits at a severe mark-up (because back then e-commerce was still in its infancy and you couldn't just order them from an online retailer). I got all of them and starved a few weekends for it.

Are yours still intact? Those rubbery "sleeves" on the joints were notorious for being unkind to the ABS plastic joints underneath. Like many other fans, I had my hip joints eventually break... and unfortunately I guess there's no way to repair them.

[Falconhood]

yeah, i got Griffon back when i was in college...when it was new, around 1994 i guess.

[mechamasterj]

same here........ those joints covered by the rubber were a real B I T C H!!!, all mine did was flop around.......... i have since long sold him however.

[slotdemon]

Mine don't have any breaks at all, the rubber is still nice and soft and all of the joints are still tight. I never really played with these, I put them together and they have sat in a cabinet for probably 15 years. Are these collectible? I've looked around on the internet for other ones but I didn't find much. How much do you think these are worth? Are there many still around?

[slotdemon]

Oh, I see your link to more of these for sale, sweet thanks.

[Falconhood]

well, I now have Revoltech's version of Griffon and a Patlabor main machine, so they are still be made, just in different formats.

[Ben-Ohki]

There has also been a Type-Zero and a Helldiver Revoltechs as well.
Are those old kits collectible? Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, really. I don't think they're worth anything more than what other old kits sell for (i.e.: not much unless you're lucky to find a collector who just wants the kit for the sake of owning a boxed kit).
Looking back, those Patlabor kits kind of sucked, actually. Besides the rubber corroding into the ABS plastic and weakening the skeleton, their design wasn't fantastic either. Often the joints didn't bend in the right directions, etc. I remember Type-Zero didn't even have knees (well, he had knees but they actually went side-ways because of the way the armor snapped together). And some of them, the hip joints were done in a way for them to look best in a neutral pose - so they even if they had joints, they weren't truly posable... and that rubber got in the way anyway.

[quinjester]

My Type Zero had proper bending knees.

But yeah, the rubber was a pain. The figures really couldn't pose as a result, it would tear, and it did eventually melt and damage the internal frames.

They were cool models though, and for the longest time they were the only way to get good representations of Patlabor mecha, so I had them ALL. I think I still DO have some of them at home, somewhere, coated in a thick layer of dust.

To this day, those kits are still the only way to get a Phantom labor. Something I wish CM's (or wave, or whoever) would alleviate...

[mechamasterj]

Worth anything..... Nope not oob built anyway if they were gonna be worth anything it still be on sprues. Unless you're a fantastic model builder kits reduce in value when built... Usally