I love discovering the little tidbits of background information from old toys I used to have.

For example my brother and I used to love playing with a toy which consisted of two planes merging to form a robot. We never knew the background of the toy, but a few years ago I was randomly reading about the history of Power Rangers and how it was dubbed from the Super Sentai series. Lo and behold, I discovered the 8th Super Sentai series called Choudenshi Bioman (from 1984) and that the mecha which featured in this series was the very toy we played with!

Just last night, I was reading about the “Unseen” Mechwarrior designs and came across a design which looked very similar to a small diecast robot toy I used to play with. After further digging around I found out I was playing with a figure from the Fang of the Sun Dougram anime (from 1981).

Sadly I don’t have any of these toys anymore but it’s cool to finally discover the story behind them and that they were actually licensed merchandise, not just some random cheap generic toy.