Cementimental writes: "I was randomly looking at very expensive Japanese metal robots on ToyboxDX.com when I found this". It's Compoboy, a 16inch tall toy robot made from the 80s hi-fi essentials: Reel-to-reels, graphic equalizers, vertical record players, smoked glass doors. The reel-to-reels launch rockets. Best of all: "There is also a strange, inexplicable feature that involves shoving little strips of white cardboard into the main component of the toy."
10/28/2005
Japanese Eighties Hi-Fi Robot Toy
Cementimental writes: "I was randomly looking at very expensive Japanese metal robots on ToyboxDX.com when I found this". It's Compoboy, a 16inch tall toy robot made from the 80s hi-fi essentials: Reel-to-reels, graphic equalizers, vertical record players, smoked glass doors. The reel-to-reels launch rockets. Best of all: "There is also a strange, inexplicable feature that involves shoving little strips of white cardboard into the main component of the toy."
oh, wow... an 80s "ghetto blaster" shaped robot (pronounced like Zoidberg would, please...row-bit), mixed with 50s-70s IBM Mainframe aesthetics. The card reader is classic.
ReplyDeleteOk, all you crazy modders out there - who's going to make their reel-to-reel studio look exactly like some giant mainframe computer room, with walls of tape drives spinning back and forth, lights blinking, computations computing...it'd be glorious! you could hide the protools/cubase/sonar/etc. system behind if you want... :)
Man, just smoked glass is cool.
ReplyDeleteThe "inexplicable feature" is a punchcard reader.
ReplyDeleteAre the robots on that site for sale, or just display only?
ReplyDeleteIt's basically a review site for hardcore toy otaku... mostly 'Chogokin' and other diecast metal toys, but also plastic ones like this....
They write about a mix of new stuff which can be bought easily (if expensively usually) online etc, and old 70's/80's stuff like this which is probably impossible to find outside Japan bar some intensive ebay-searching??? I saw one on ebay HK starting at like $170?
ToyboxDX is a cool site, tho half the time I have no idea what they're even on about; lots of proper collector jargon! :)