knowledge needed on old robot and strange wind up skull

[scoth70]

hi guys well the robot ..
any ideas on the years these made..by sh japan all working order ..is made fron tin and plastic parts..guns come from chest and body spins ...what is item worth ? theres lots of robots about but i havnt seen this one?





next up is a bit scary its a strange windup hopping skull on box wandering skeleton,also in set with a mad cannibal and flying at snake? says made in japan dsk...
the skull is like a kind of hard rubber any help the same for the skull would be great

[toystalker]

i have robots with the same body but different head made in hk

can go for anything from £10-£50 on ebay... will go back to japan for sure if you ebay'd it
could even go for more on a real good day... i mean you could value it at £100-£150 but no ones gonna pay that much for it in my op

never seen the skull before sorry bro

[scoth70]

i have robots with the same body but different head made in hk

can go for anything from £10-£50 on ebay... will go back to japan for sure if you ebay'd it
could even go for more on a real good day... i mean you could value it at £100-£150 but no ones gonna pay that much for it in my op

never seen the skull before sorry bro

thanks for that mate...so why would it go back to japan?? curious?
yes an item is only worth as much as the collector want to pay for it ...

[Mikey]

Pictures don't enlarge for me.

I'm going to take a wild guess and say the robot is from around 1964-1974

The only thing that's throwing me off is the white sticker on top.

Is that a child warning sticker ?

If so, that makes me think it's a newer item.

[scoth70]

Is that a child warning sticker ?

If so, that makes me think it's a newer item.

yes it say not for children under 3

[shellhead]

The robot is based on the attacking Martian robot by Horakowa toys of Japan. Originaly it was an all tin battery op, and around 1974,'75, started using plastic parts and different heads to keep it a strong seller.

[AAAAA]

Yours is made and called:
Horikawa battle robot 1962
Vintange Toys
Robots and space toys
by authors Bunte-Hallnam-Mueller

[toystalker]

thanks for that mate...so why would it go back to japan?? curious?
yes an item is only worth as much as the collector want to pay for it ...

like many toys made in a certain country they get imported out of that country

years later the collectors want them back lol

years ago i imported veb plasticart kits from germany they are airfix type kits... now that there is no east and west germany custom is booming now and all the kits go back to germany and its the same i find with robots and transformers from japan sure other folks from all walks of life and countries like to collect them but 9 times out of 10 when i put a vintage robot up it goes back to where it came

[scoth70]

oh right yes.... i see .... i wasnt thinking was i.... just like we want our megos back

[toystalker]

palitoy

i never saw many mego years ago... but palitoy yes plenty of LOL

[TrueDave]

I want to say the skull is Marx of course. I believe it came out during the height of the Weird-Ohs , Rat Fink craze.

I know I've seen them before I was tempted by the Cannibal but I don't remeber which book of mine it was .