Rare/Bizarre Merchandise

[jeffbert]

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Wonderful! where did you find this image, Novacain?

as near as I can tell, the thying transcribes to:
鉄腕アトムシヨツワゲーム

but no relevant search results yet.

I took it this morning, I own this game (ordered off Ebay a few years ago).
Here's a shot of the instructions on the box, I can't read them but the illustrations are pretty straightforward:

One thing I noticed though was that Atom's eyes are BLUE in that game! That makes me think that the game wasn't something that Tezuka (or Mushi) Studios approved, they would have known better!

Here's another blue eyed Atom toy, I kinda like Astro with baby blues:
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Thanks, Novacain!

[Uran-chama]

I realized that I had a somewhat bizarre piece of Astro Boy merch myself



The operation game and the sonosheets are really cool. So many interesting products.

[Sporkia]

Allow me to come out of lurking to share this weird Argentinean Astro Boy comic I found on ebay a long time ago. There were actually like two or three more issues for sale, though one of my friends bought two of them. I don't have access to the scans anymore, but the art inside is a lot worse than the art on the cover.

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Someone has posted the contents of that record on Youtube, I recognized the artwork which they used in the video, which I downloaded and have somewhere on my hd.

[jeffbert]

[QUOTE=jeffbert;234857]
Wonderful! where did you find this image, Novacain?

as near as I can tell, the thying transcribes to:
鉄腕アトムシヨツワゲーム

but no relevant search results yet.

I took it this morning, I own this game (ordered off Ebay a few years ago).
Here's a shot of the instructions on the box, I can't read them but the illustrations are pretty straightforward:


Here's another blue eyed Atom toy, I kinda like Astro with baby blues:
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So, as it does not appear that Atom has a light bulb for a nose, what happens when the tweezers touch the sides?

[Little Brown Fox]

Probably just that awful buzzing sound that just wrecks your nerves and concentration. :T

Omg, somebody actually owns one of those refuel statues. It's bizarre, alright; it's also completely canon-compliant, at least for the 50's and 60's. (We did not get to see much of that in the anime over here; I believe that a lot of editing is to blame. )

[Shiyonasan]

This just may be the most bizarre thing I've come across so far. Google Translate says that this is a "dance doll". I'm assuming it's a cheapo hand puppet of some sort. It's a bit creepy to be honest. The height is 23 centimeters tall (just over 9 inches).

View more images of it here:

[url]http://page13.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/r131239270[/url]

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I also found more images of the tin figure from my first post in this thread:

[url]http://actnj.net/d/d?id=u81501476[/url]

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Lastly, this is a card that the guy selling it on Yahoo Japan auctions thinks came with one of the sonorama sonosheets. If you look by Atom's shorts, you can see a circular hole on it.

View more images of it here:

[url]http://page7.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g149754378[/url]

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[Tetsuwan Penguin]

That tin toy was from an early era, nine eye lashes!

[Shiyonasan]

That tin toy was from an early era, nine eye lashes!

And brown eyes too! Something that's pretty rare to see on Atom.

Just found another rare toy. I believe you can shoot little toy missiles from Atom's chest (you can see those toy missiles in the second image in the link below). The box's measurements are 13 cm x 11 cm x 3.5 cm.

View more images of it here:

[url]http://page8.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h205035248[/url]

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[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Check out all the Astro figures for sale on the site:

http://www.postrex.com/Astro-Boy-ebay/?mode=search&oldCat=1&cat_id=70955&per_page=100&catName=Astro%2BBoy

Some are 16" tall!