As promised, the world's worst Combattler...

I have sunk as low as I can go.

I can't say that I have any particular love for the character of Combattler V, but even if I hated it, I would never wish this sort of rendition on him. This is almost a slap in the face to the poor guy. Galba's Robo Kress toy was bad, but at least it stole the overall design from the Takemi Big Robo toy and just dumbed it down a bit. This....this is atrocious...

But for as bad as it is, in a way, I love it. Because it reminds me of the sort of cheap, generic toy you might see drawn into animated Christmas special. Yes, I'm pretty sure this thing was made by elves. A human mind would just never conceive of something like this, much less create it with the belief that you could sell it for money. Nope, no human would make this and no right thinking human would buy this.

I said "right thinking".

It almost looks like it's laughing at me, doesn't it?

Combattler V stands 14" tall, is made entirely of cheap polyethylene and was sold in a bag with a generic header card. It features SEVEN dots (4 yellow, 2 black and one red!) among it's very elegant stickers. One sticker even says "Star Boom".

Star Boom, indeed.

Header Card

Another cheap, ugly knockoff that me and like 3 other people care about...

Unfortunately, no official full sized Jumbo Machinders were made of the Machine Blaster robots (Robo Kress, Blue Caesar, Sandaio and Boss Palder). Mattel Italy released their "Astro Robot" Jumbos that were based on the characters, but those toys used primarily parts from existing Jumbos with new heads and weapons. Takemi did make a line of 16" toys called "Big Robo", though. These were repeatedly copied and released in Italy and both the originals and the subsequent knockoffs have become commonly known as "Junior Machinders". All sorts of robots combinations were made, many of which used the body of the Takemi Robo Kress. The arms in particular are often used on various Junior Machinders, such as Dangard Ace and Pegas, to name just two. There is at least one toy that is nearly identical to the Takemi version and then there is this.

This toy uses the same mold as the Takemi toy, but is greatly simplified. As you can see, it's cast entirely in cheap, squishy blue polyethylene with just some stickers slapped onto it for "detail", if you can call it that. All firing fists and missiles have been removed.

Robo Kress stands 14" tall and is articulated at only the shoulders. It came packaged in a clear plastic bag, but with no header card. It was just tied off with a twisty tie. There are no manufacturer markings on it, but it does share some stickers (the "UFO" and black dots) with a very cheap and VERY ugly Combattler toy that I have. That toy did come with a header card and appears to have been made by a company called "Galba", so I think it's a good bet that this one was, too.

Ok. You may be thinking that this toy, and by extension this review, is not worthy of attention. But just be glad I didn't show you the Combattler! UGH....