As a kid, one of my very favorite toys of all time, was my red Dragun Shogun Warrior. (Chadworth there is my minor homage to this toy line.)
18" of glorious Japanese shampoo bottle plastic, with shuriken wrist launcher, sawblade forearms, hellish horns, and battle axe launching badassness... on rollerskates!
I loved this thing, as it fought my Star Wars and GI Joe figs over the coarse of many years. It was tough, reliable, and looked a little like KISS to my 70's kid eye. It was big and COOL!
Unfortunately, once I turned 13 or 14, my friends and I decided that it would be cool to throw rocks at Dragun causing him to topple over, and break off his horns. Outside I was laughing; inside, it hurt a little to see my pal finally fall.
One of my Raydeens
Many years later, I replaced my Dragun with another one, that was less damaged. Then I found another one, better matching my 1977 vintage and in better shape. Then I got a Gaiking. And a Raydeen. (Amazing!) And a Mazinga. And a Godzilla. And a Diamos.
Now, I've been able to fulfil my dream of having more of these Jumbo Machinder, though I'm not exactly finished with the challenge. Though I have 11 of the American ones, I still lack Rodan and Goldorak which are rare and fairly expensive.
Spring fist punch powar
I've already decided to call the game at those 2; there's no way that I can venture out to get the Japanese ones, many of which cost thousands and tens of thousands of dollars.
I just need to fully recapture a filament of my 70's youth; when I look at these, I fade right back.
- Daniel
