Shogun Warrior Knock Off?

[palitoy]

I am assuming this is some Italian Knock Off, the box is awesome but the toy looks kind of some sort of sad mutant offspring.


1979 MAZINGA MIB made in ITALY 22" JUMBO MACHINDER Shogun Warrior Mazinger Z | eBay

[4NDR01D]

Fantastic. You know when they make "young versions" of already established characters? like "Muppet Babies", this looks like "Shogun Warrior Babies".

[cjefferys]

I was leaning toward bootleg, but there does seem to be proper copyright info at the bottom of the box, so now I'm not sure. It's sure ugly enough to be a boot!

[darkmonkeygod]

I've got one (packed away, of course), and this particular one on ebay is the one I helped my now deceased friend Shawn purchase some years ago - and is not for sale from me, please note. As I remember it, it has licensing info on it. That doesn't nessisarily mean it actually was licensed, but I've never heard otherwise.

[darkmonkeygod]

I was leaning toward bootleg, but there does seem to be proper copyright info at the bottom of the box, so now I'm not sure. It's sure ugly enough to be a boot!

While "ugly" (I think of it more as goofy), what with the top of the head being a cup, it's a solidly constructed toy.

[samurainoir]

Merciful Minverva! There lies the slipper slope collecting Jumbos. I love stuff like this.

[palitoy]

Well obviously somebody wanted this very much, when I read the description that it was some sort of game, it made more sense.