Vintage Toy Daitetsujin One-Seven 大鉄人１７
I have been thinking about going through some of my vintage toy collection for sometime now, but have been rather lazy and pushing it out.. Anyway, one of my favorite childhood show Daitetsujin One-Seven, one of the few TV shows that I somehow managed to retain clear memory of it until this very day, some 30 odd years later, I was about 3-4 years old when I saw it in Hong Kong.
Back in the early 70s, when Special Effect show (SFX) like Ultraman was really popular, the creator of the long and successful Kamen Rider series Shotaro Ishinomori 石ノ森 章太郎 produced Daitetsujin One-Seven 大鉄人１７. It really didn't hit main stream and it became more of a cult favorite more than anything else since the story is somewhat similar to that of Tetsujin 28. The setting of the story was about the World Peace Organization created a Super Calculator called Burein ブレイン or Great Brain in some English translation, whose purpose to help preserve the human race. Since Great Brain possessed a high level of artificial intelligent and later became self-aware, it determined that the human race was harmful to the environment and must be eliminated. One-Seven was originally created by Great Brain to eliminate the human race, but One-Seven, which also possess intelligence of its own, came to a different conclusion than that of Great Brain. That human can be saved and is not harmful to the planet. So One-Seven decided to side with the human race.
And here is the official VCD Collection I got many years ago.
And here is the Chogokin Superior Transformation GD-17 that I purchased from HLJ back in 1999.
The coolest thing about this Chogokin is that it can transform between the robot form and the fortress form automatically, with only a touch of a button in the back!
And here is a little home video of the the transformation
One of my most treasured collection of course! Though it cannot be compared to the Dollfie Dream I collect these days, but it will have a place in my heart no matter how many more Dollfie Dream I collect in the future!
1st! DD > Chogokin Superior Transformation GD-17
While DD might as well be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but GD-17 will always have a little place in my heart for it!
LOL @ AA. The oldies but goodies are always worth having around. I don't think I ever saw this one, though.. which is a shame.
Some of the series was licensed in US I think, called the defender and Brain 17 I think.
I absolutely adore old super robots like this one
Cool
Mankind's treasure hehe.
Well, this is one of the very few shows that I can clearly remember watching it in my childhood years, so there is something about that!
Very cool stuff.
Yup yup, must never forget the classic stuff
Looks very rare indeed!! i wonder if i digging some rared figure stuff sometimes Xp
Yes it is
Even better if you grew up watching some of these, value is even higher!
I in fact did grow up with it, the sentimental value is high.