1976 Shogun Warriors - Retro Showcase #8

This week Dan showcases some of the most weaponizable toys ever to hit the market. Mattels Shogun Warriors from 1976.
This was a line of barely poseable gigantic robots brought over from Japan to entertain and maim children across the country.
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[@MarkHarris01]

My nephew and I were playing with our Shogun Warriors Godzillas at the playground when this kid came up and asked my nephew if he could see his Godzilla. My nephew greedily said, "no," so I told the kid he could play with mine. The kid promptly shot my nephew in the face with Godzilla's fist, sending him home crying (those late 70s toys were no joke.) And that's how I met my best friend.

[@yellowgut]

Mark Harris that hand was deadly!! Lmao, removed from the market before my folks could snag one for me. That's communism for ya. Lol

[@thekaijumaster200x3]

Mark Harris mattel was out to harm kids with those damn machinders

[@briankey7419]

I still have my Godzilla

[@supremeasiaticallah2303]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@supremeasiaticallah2303]

I got in trouble as a kid 4 shooting the fist @ my mom's roommate's son

[@deathmetalrob5563]

I vaguely remember seeing these as a kid but today I'm 52 years old and I went to my local Goodwill and Greenville Pennsylvania and a vintage toy collector must have died and his family gave up his collection because there was an array of vintage toys Minton box and one of them was mazinga Minton box 24-in with all the accessories and instructions and insert cardboard insert mint box. Then I got a big traks and transporter. Plus there was a 1969 Minton box Barbie lively living dollhouse and a few other vintage toys. I've never seen anything like this at a goodwill and I snatched up the mazinga and big tracks. I got the mozinga for a $150 and I plan on taking it to a toy store and using it for trade so I can get some vintage Star wars mint on card Kenner. I loved your review and explanation on the toy. Thanks and great content.

[@volttherobot]

LOVED this episode - Shogun Warriors were such great fun!

[@wahyudil7911]

luckily I have them in my country with real names and animes ... Mazinger is a legend here

[@drewrosecrans9728]

Man those were the days i used to be into Ultraman and still to this day ❤ i was a happy nine year old back in 76 cheers from Pasadena CA

[@deezhole]

My friends and I always said "Mazinga" ma-zing-guh. Thanks

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

Yes exactly

[@The-King-Is-Coming]

Same!

[@allegedkurd]

That's how they pronounce it in the Japanese anyway, so that's totally understandable.

[@Optimalillusion]

Mazinga for the American toy. Mazinger for the original Japanese property.

[@TheUnFairAdvantageCrypto]

same here- 53 now...not stopping LOL

[@georgesmith5849]

I got those for Christmas in 76 .Im 46 now and my 22 yr old has them still.

[@SecretGalaxyTV]

Excellent. Legacy Shoguns!

[@billy1673]

Such great memories of these toys! My brother and I had them!

[@drewrosecrans9728]

Had those back in 76 i was 9 years old love it!

[@SecretGalaxyTV]

+Mark Harris That is a fantastic story. I'm sure his pride was wounded more than his face but still... never underestimate the power of Godzilla to bring people together.

[@legogodzillaguy7773]

Toy Galaxy they made a new godzilla toy

[@RCfromtheNYC]

Shogun Warriors was the first cartoon I loved as a kid (I saw the syndicated version on a local channel). I got every comic book from the series, and had the small metal Raideen the Brave.

[@jonathanrayne]

Love these things. I ALWAYS wanted a Great Mazinga! And I loved their comic book.

[@jaysunpuke]

One of my fav's as a kid, played shogun warriors with my cousin , read the comic's & loved the cartoon. So thanks for another great trip down that wormhole

[@aVerveQuest]

I had all these as a kid, plus the Godzilla who had "stick out your tongue" action. They were one of the first toys I remember lusting after

[@dracoreptox4380]

I had Great Mazinger ( Gureto Majinga)and Raideen. Back in 1978? I believe. Thanks Dan. Great upload.

[@franzyland]

I got many a fat lip getting punched with that flying fist. Those springs were no joke back then. I still have Gazinga Z and Gaiking around here somewhere.

[@mechagojira6951]

Gaiking was my favorite...my poor cat. had Godzilla with the incredible flame tongue !!!!!

[@rjc7289]

Shogun Warriors were a big part of my 70's youth. I had the 2-foot-tall ones and the smaller ones made of die-cast metal. They also made a Godzilla figure that could launch one of its claws. My favorite figure was Gaiking. He could launch one of his fists and missiles from his chest. His torso also looked like a screaming skull with fangs. It should be noted that there currently is a Japanese toy company called Toynami (hope I spelled that right) which resurrected the Shogun Warrior line.

[@DarthPhelps]

Shogun Warriors...wow. I had these. LOL Good times.

[@coreygillom]

OMG!!! You guys are my childhood soulmate!! Because everything you said kids did with this toy I did. I had so much fun with that toy! I still have models of them but I wish I had one. Once again happy childhood feelings thanks to you guys. You guys don’t understand.... I was such a toy kid when I was a kid. Coming books and toys. 😍🤪🤣

[@mccallosone4903]

My best friend had the Giant Mazinger (we just called him shogun) and the Godzilla. we used to make epic battles alongside his star wars and universal monsters figures

[@shable1436]

Me and my brother too, we used to have the at at walker vs raydeen , and raydeen could fly because, I said so. Hahaha

[@jyesucevitz]

I dont recall their names, but the 2 i got as a boy had the missile fingers and the flying fist. I remember selecting from the sears roebuck catalog that gramma gave us each year to pick out toys. vivid memories. thank you.

[@pcaz23]

i had one of these. was one of my favorite toys all time

[@shannonfrye6449]

It was Ma-ZING-a. I still have mine. All the missiles too, and that escape pod head. The rockets launcher still works (good springs), but the sword have been lost to time. I remember the handles breaking off, and being a kid, I had no way to reattach them back them.

[@michaelhallen2808]

My first intro to Japanimation. The 24" figures were actually not very good,but visually amazing. Force Five and Starblazers cartoons made me a fan for life. King Arts does an incredible job with their figures for fans of Mazinger,Grendizer and Gaiking.

[@cboehm24]

It's funny. My cousins had these things and used them to attack everyone. I never knew what they were, and haven't seen them anywhere since. Thanks for posting!

[@Goldenbane]

Never heard of these guys or saw their show, but my brother had them both. Man, I LOVED playing with them against my super hero figures. They could be sentinels for the X-men (or Marvel Super Heroes), long lost civilization guardians unleashed by Skeletor to go up against He-man, or the latest inventions by Lex Luthor to fight the Justice League.

[@gradybrowning3976]

I’m 50 years old and remember having a couple when I was a kid, I loved them.

[@shable1436]

I still miss my raydeen, I had him for several years, even slept with him, then a random friend of my mom's brings her kid over and I guess he slipped it into his mom's car without her knowing it, and I never seen it again, it traumatized me when someone comes and steals your favorite toy as a kid

[@hunterlangley8287]

Shogun Godzilla lives rent free in my heart.

[@superrobotscompany8366]

Ok finally saw an episode on Jumbo Machinder or I should say Shogun Warriors. Great and fast review 👍🏻 amazing work 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@Mike-ky9jz]

First time I saw these on the shelves it was like heaven..😳😳😳😂😂😂

[@TheJohnny928]

SOO many good memories ❤

[@mogunloye]

Love these retro showcases salute Fam!!!

[@nomangreybeard535]

I loved this comic.

[@BlackburnBigdragon]

I had those giant Raydeen, and Great Mazinga toys back in the 70's. When I got older, My parents gave this family that we knew, that had these two, very destructive boys, a load of old toys that I had outgrown. Two of these toys were my giant Raydeen, and Great Mazinga. I literally watched as the poor toys were demolished before my eyes. Raydeen literally got thrown down a flight of stairs, smashing into the floor, right in front of me. By the time we left, half the stickers were pulled off, Great Mazinga was missing his head, the missiles were long gone. And the "rocket fists" were both broken. It was literally minutes for them to be destroyed before my eyes. And my parents didn't allow me to say a word about it. I just had to sit, and watch, in horror. And now, given the prices that they fetch, compared with the care that I showed them when I was a kid (I literally displayed them as decorations because they were among my favorites. My parents assumed that, "Oh. He's not playing with them any more. They're just sitting around. Lets just get rid of them. No concept of.. "These are decorations because I love sci-fi and robots, and I want my room to have sci-fi and robots in it!").

[@grillagabe1]

I still have my Mazinger and Godzilla. The only things I kept from my childhood. I got them for Christmas from my aunt when I was 4. Lost all the accessories. Never shot my eye out though.

[@coreyharris6360]

I remember my brother & i getting these giant robots. I got the one with the yellow hooks hanging out of his head. He had a power in which a bird shot out of his chest. They were the toys for that christmas. They were cool. It wasn't until i started buying the comics that i actually took more interest in them. In the comic they had pilots control them in the head . The comics made these toys more than what they were. This was one of the best toys too have!

[@richardthehutt4407]

I had Mazinger & Godzilla. Played with them until they fell apart.

[@deshunsmith2580]

I had one back in the day . Got it one Christmas day in the late 70s.

[@BigBass-xf5yi]

Damn I miss these awesome toys. I had mazingo, Ray seen and Godzilla. Then I had a few of the smaller metallic ones when they came out. Great memories.

[@drewrosecrans9728]

Tge cartoons were awesome too back in 76 i used to watch on channel 52 LA CA

[@arakuss1]

I have both the original jumbo Mazinger and Raden with his axe hand and still have Mazinger missle launcher hand but its cracked. Been looking to restore them to new. Got them back in the 70s for christmas

[@dex7721]

Mazinger was actually Great Mazinger in Japan, the uprated version of Mazinger Z.

[@lauragarcia8634]

Tranzor z

[@6672rock]

The Shogun Warriors were a big part of my childhood. I had Mazinga and Godzilla. The Mazinga I had didn't have the detachable spaceship that mounts in the head. It was permanently fixed in there. It did come with 2 red plastic swords and a rocket-launcher hand that could shoot up to 3 rockets at a time with additional rockets mounted on the shoulders and legs. I've since gotten back into collecting them, many of which are in their original boxes, and some with the packing material still intact. 70's toys may have been unsafe, but hey, they only posed a hazard if you were naive and impulsive. Otherwise, they were way cool!

[@TJ52359]

we scored the 'Mazinger' (the V/wing on it's chest) at a garage sale in the late 80s... he was missing the 'pod' that inserted into his head, and the 'Gun hand' was cracked, but it still worked and oddly had 4 'bullets' which even then I knew was rare for a 2nd/3rd hand toy BTW as far as articulation the wrists/forearms (however you want to define that part, (as you can see in the pics) did rotate as well

[@RikoJAmado]

The pod was called the “ Hover Pilder”.

[@adanolmeda4413]

I call him Tranzor Z!

[@SecretGalaxyTV]

Would a giant robot by any other name still look as badass?

[@maze1914]

Adan Olmeda lol i was thinking the same

[@giantsean]

Tranzor ZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! But yeah, Tranzor Z was the re-dubbed Mazinger Z anime. I'm sure it's more complex than all that but long story short, same dude.

[@bigmember5908]

one of the best shows ever, and Ill Rocket-Punch anyone who says otherwise

[@phoule76]

It was so cool seeing a Japanese cartoon for the 1st time, and Tranzor Z was on after school in my state instead of on Saturday mornings. Circa 1985? About 20 years later, in Spain, I learned they called it Mazinger Z, but the cartoon reruns looked the same... Bobo Bot was the idiot, Aphrodite A was Tommy's girlfriend's robot... and Tranzor Z often got his ass kicked but managed to win at the end. And he got wings at some point in the series!

[@charvolth]

Wow, surpised to discover the video. I have the version of 'Great Mazinga' (or Great Mazinger) where the chest boomerang was just a sticker. Not complete, its missing some missiles and the Scrandor wings. But I have the box, banged up as it is. Still one of my favorites. If I had the money I would collect the whole line.

[@raydeen2k]

My favorite line of toys from my childhood (Raydeen being my main man). I had 'em in all shapes and sizes and played hard with all of them. Surprisingly, only a few ever had any real broken bits. The big guys though have lost most of their stickers over the years, and some of their armaments. It's not easy keeping track of where all those God Bird chest missiles may have flown.

[@shable1436]

He is my favorite too, I slept with mine as a child, and then one day he went missing, turned out a kid came over and stole him out of my room. I couldn't believe it,but it was traumatizing and I still remember it well. I never found him or recovered him

[@texasbeast239]

I had Gaiking with rotating head, viking horns, and shoulders, firing fist and boob rockets, and roller skate feet. He had a cool monster face image for a torso. My little brothers lost 2 of the rockets as soon as I moved on to Transformers, and broke both of the feet off. But my dad kept repairing the thing over the years, and Gaiking actually seemed somehow cooler for having come through all his battles still in 1 piece. He eventually was transported with all my other toys in cardboard boxes to some other planet, never to be seen again.

[@jamesdio4977]

I got Raydean 4 Christmas. Beat Christmas ever.

[@MantisNineNines]

Woo hoo these guys are so awesome! I love these huge stupidbutamazing toys!

[@eddieg6436]

My friend had these (so did I). A few years later his mom sold them for 50 cents each in a garage sale. I kept mine in their boxes in pristine condition (I was an OCD kid). Fast forward 42 years and they’re worth about a thousand dollars for all four.

[@shawnawesome7770]

Holy crap, so thats the toy I had!

[@themayne6303]

Man I had one of these guys. It’s was my first ill game changing toy. I thing middles shot out & it’s was maybe 2-3 ft tall. I could be vaguely wrong

[@SchardtCinematic]

I still have my Great Mazinga my Godzilla and my Rodan. Those were aweso.e huge toys to play with

[@vryusvin3905]

I owned three of these! The two that were in the video and a third that was all yellow/gold. I played with them with my Godzilla toy that was almost the same size. Even put them all in a big trash bag one day and took them to school for show and tell- THAT was a mistake :) Good times.

[@lionelwhiskerknot]

These toys rocked. Shooting saw blades, flinged axes, and shooting fists. Those things had range too. Sigh. Then the Battlestar Galactica incident happened as kids started firing toy weapons into their eyes and stupid stuff like that. All toys after that got nerfed hard and you'd be lucky if your toy weapons shot farther than 3 inches. Yeah.... Kids like that the Darwin award needed to be applied.

[@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248]

I had all 3 as a kid.

[@HappyFam991]

I still have my Raydeen figure from the late 70's. Now how...that I don't know....

[@BBBILLY86]

one of my friends in the 70s had these. Always thought they were really cool. Of course he wouldn't let anyone touch them. Don't blame him. Just sucked being the kid with no Atari, Shogun Warriers, Star Wars or GI Joe toys.

[@fatmancomics]

Now you owe us a history of Mazinger Z for not doing the research on the prononounciation.

[@scottandrewhutchins]

I have all the comics, but I never had the toys. They look like they should be able to transform, but can't. My older brother won a box of toys in a contest at the local drug store that included the Godzilla. Being a big fan of the cartoon, I wanted it, but when my parents saw how far the fist could fly, they deemed it too dangerous, and it was back in the box. It and anything my brother didn't want got sold to Children's Palace, which had a weird policy of buying toys from the public if they were in new condition. They also handled their stock in a weird way. You could buy toys years out of production from them, as I did with Starriors. Blogs abut when they went out of business in the early 1990s talk about buying Clash of the Titans toys mint in box at liquidation prices.

[@seanfoltz7645]

I had Mazinga - later known as Transor Z - while my brother had the Godzilla that shot his fist with enough power to break a window or give you a bloody nose/fat lip.

[@the9-2-5outlawdoestech9]

Back when they did not put warning labels on these toys for choking hazard due to spring-loaded missiles.

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

Ma-zing-ga. I had him when I was a kid.

[@zacetto]

If there were ever toys I wanted, it was the giant Shogun Warriors range and as a five year old U.K. kid, watched the ads, agog. The closest I got were two Marvel comics and two Monogram model kits. 6025 Grandizer and 6023 Raider. It took four months to save my pocket money to afford Grandizer and my abusive father insisted on assembling it, even going as far as to swear and get angry at me when he discovered the parts were on a sprue! He ended up ruining the whole model and it went from eight action features, down to two, one of which broke later that morning. I had to stop crying as by the way he was shouting/swearing at me, I knew I was gonna get a beating. Grandizer died when my older brother dropped a bunk bed guard on it. Raider smashed when he threw Luke Skywalker in Bespin Fatigues from the garden and million to one, it knocked it off the shelf. Both events ended in a beating, courtesy of dad. To add insult to injury, he turned one of Grandizer’s epaulette axes into a grappling hook and we fought before church. I got a horrid beating off Ma in the car for that.... The good news was, my Ma got me Micronauts Microtron instead that Xmas, with a Time Traveller and Biotron the next Christmas. Bad news they were both faulty and broke the same day.

[@minnesotajones261]

I had the Godzilla figure (still do) - finally found a guy on eBay to fix the broken lever on his head, now he's "complete" again. AND... finally pony''d up and got Rodan on eBay. He wasn't cheap, but FINALLY have him - awesome figure. Wanted him for X-mas in 1980, and Santa didn't deliver.... grrrr......

[@ChicagoDeepHouseHead]

Man. I had them all even godzilla

[@talesfromislandz4844]

had the gaiking and later the godzilla. many adventures were had. id like to see a live action movie thats not called pacific rim and updated the classic designs. thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@nathanieljackson5554]

I had Mazinger as a kid and ended up removing the missle launcher hand. I lost the sword and the end only had the removable spaceship that was stored in his head.

[@spacemanmattscifi]

A shame that you couldn't show the whole line that was released in the United States along with the die-cast metal ones including Combatra.

[@TheUnFairAdvantageCrypto]

the 10 inch Raydeen was beautiful unit. that thing was SOLID

[@mccallosone4903]

I was always super jealous of my friend pauls giant godzilla and raden. We just called him "shogun" tho

[@SchardtCinematic]

I still have my Great Mazinga and my Godzilla from this line up.

[@iakazul]

Yes I threw my Raideen and Godzilla at a variety of childhood adversaries in grade school lol

[@manko8852]

Had the jumbo Raydeen he was great. Sadly don't know what happened to him.

[@eddie10191]

I miss my childhood. Today’s kids won’t survive 30 minutes.

[@buffsheeri]

These toys in good shape fetch big prices

[@bxpress6507]

I had mazinga😎 the missiles shot pretty far! But unfortunately they got cheap plastic wheels they roll on and mine broke😔 i did have the smaller, metal version that just shot his arms😆 memory lane revisited😎

[@KingOfHalla]

Any special reason you completed Superion over the other combiners in the line?

[@SecretGalaxyTV]

I love airplanes. Superion has always been my favorite of the combiners.

[@mr.martinez2333]

I have the red one you didn't show with the axe and shooting stars

[@alanrlinn]

OMG, (Imagine younger me running around in circles shooting my eye out with glorious pre-regulated toys with missles) I LOVED THESE!!!!! That was kid me screaming. My favorite was, of course, Mazinga and I had the one where the space ship in his head was removable. AWESOME!!!!!!!!! Kid me again. Anyway, everyone I talk to about these have no idea what I'm talking about. Maybe I'm too old. Kid me can't STOP SCREAMING!!!!! I'm exhausted now. I think my mom threw them away when I was 8 or something. Thanks mom.

[@SecretGalaxyTV]

I can see it. "Alan Linn: scourge of the playground." Your mom got rid of it to protect the neighborhood.

[@modelmanjohn]

The comic book series was actually really good.

[@indiglo1971]

Company?

[@pbr-streetgang]

Hell yea!

[@SchardtCinematic]

I also have alot of the die cast metal o es too

[@dredgewalker]

The japanese jumbo machinders go for insane prices these days. I've seen 4 mint jumbo voltes v getting sold for 20k dollars and other robots for 10k. Collecting these are not fun anymore these days considering how expensive they are today. The shogun are also increasing in prices and boxed ones in great condition can fetch up to 600 dollars above especially the grendizer/goldorak figure.

[@davidbinkley4575]

Full video please?

[@markkroberger739]

I want to see the Shogun Warriors added to the Godzillaverse by bringing them to the big screen, along with a updated version of Jet Jaguar and MechaGodzilla. After all, Godzilla was added to the Shogun Warriors toyline back in the 70's, so Legendary Pictures/Warner Bros can return the favor for Mattel (now owned by Toynami). Many might say that Pacific Rim is the closest we will get to a giant robots series, but it's just not the same. This can be done- MAKE A LIVE ACTION SHOGUN WARRIORS MOVIE SERIES please. Thank ye.

[@hahmed343]

I have a Mazinger does any one know how much it cost to restore it

[@user-hc9qv9yb9m]

I had the small ones

[@Blaqsnake]

I had one I also had Godzilla with fire breath, the battles were epic. I always thought it was tranzor z, and I had these in I think the mid 80s..?

[@DoomKickTV]

Yessssssss

[@JMarzella]

I still have Mazinga and Raydeen. And one other

[@super-robot-punch]

I always thought it was Mazinguuuurrrrrrrr

[@greato80]

Anyone know of a toy in 80s. 10 inch robot , black and yellow with long blue wings on back. Big feet eagle like. 2 claws on each hand and eagle head in chest that flipped over head?? I found once but forgot name. Very articulated.

[@ersturdevant2831]

Had the Raydeen warrior. His spring launched fist could crack a neighbor s pane window...so I've heard...

[@plasmaticnoises3523]

You should do an episode on Mazinger

[@greenlanternhg5141]

I didn’t realize toys were an elimination system 😂

[@andrewtaylor940]

Oh yeah. Until those two little twits ruined it for all of us by killing themselves with Battlestar Galactica toys. 90’s kids can’t imagine how much power the spring fire missile toys from the 70’s had. “You”ll shoot your eye out” was considered a desirable feature. If it didn’t leave dents in the drywall it wasn’t a proper boys toy and belonged in Barbies Dreamhouse. A proper Action Toy had Recoil.

[@POLLOTROM]

Great Mazinger

[@Neitenth]

Scratches on the unpainted parts of these don't matter at all. They can be sanded and buffed off no problem.

[@bigmember5908]

I thought this was Tranzor Z sounds like they were self defense toys