Collector's Shogun Warriors Grendizer

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Hey guys

I am happy to announce that as of yesterday, I have officially joined the vintage super robots club. I got the Collector's Die-Cast Shogun Warriors Grendizer by Mattel. Made in Japan 1978. Making it officially my oldest super robot figure.

As a kid in the 80s, my cousin had the Jumbo Popy Grendizer AND the Grendizer + Spazer popynica set. But they were not available in any stores because he had them before I was born. Now finally I am slowly getting into the vintage super robots and will probably only focus on Grendizer since he is my favorite.

[chogokinabdul]

Wow dude! Such a nice catch!

[magengar]

That brings back fond high school memories, late '70s/early '80s...
...there was a hobby store in the Bronx
(on Grand Concourse, near Fordham Road) then known as Hobby Tree.

After school I used to walk by there and gaze into the
storefront window to view all those little diecast Shogun Warriors
that were on display; some of them were the robots; and then the
vehicles such as the Goranger Varidorin Jet; the Gaiking three animals;
and the race car Machine Hayabusa.
And I also remember seeing a Godaikin Gardian as part of the display.

Coincidentally, throughout my childhood, wherever I went and spotted
a toy store or hobby store displaying those little gokins I always
saw the Godaikin Gardian displayed along with them.

And then later on in the summer of '81 during my first time visit to
Puerto Rico, I passed by a toy store... yep, the Godaikin Gardian
was on display in the window... as in "punch car"!

Welcome to RJ, and thanks for sharing!


zozo-mag

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Nov 17, 2014 9:44:47 GMT -5 chogokinabdul said:

Wow dude! Such a nice catch!

Thank you

[GTMQ8]

Nov 17, 2014 9:52:20 GMT -5 magengar said:

That brings back fond high school memories, late '70s/early '80s...
...there was a hobby store in the Bronx
(on Grand Concourse, near Fordham Road) then known as Hobby Tree.

After school I used to walk by there and gaze into the
storefront window to view all those little diecast Shogun Warriors
that were on display; some of them were the robots; and then the
vehicles such as the Goranger Varidorin Jet; the Gaiking three animals;
and the race car Machine Hayabusa.
And I also remember seeing a Godaikin Gardian as part of the display.

Coincidentally, throughout my childhood, wherever I went and spotted
a toy store or hobby store displaying those little gokins I always
saw the Godaikin Gardian displayed along with them.

And then later on in the summer of '81 during my first time visit to
Puerto Rico, I passed by a toy store... yep, the Godaikin Gardian
was on display in the window... as in "punch car"!

Welcome to RJ, and thanks for sharing!


zozo-mag

Thank you. There are always going to be awesome stories here for our generation and those toys. For me I did not grow up seeing these in stores. The only robots that were in Toy stores when I was growing up were Transformers and Go Bots. I wanted to have a Grendizer so badly and I didn't own my first one until the year 2000 with the Soul of Chogokin GX-04. I am going to try and secure a few more vintage Grendizers and post here whenever I get one

[B-]

I remember buying one of these among a slew of Shogun Metal toys at KayBee or similar store in late seventies I was in the single digit years.Funny I can still picture the area and shelf they were all on.