Vintage Japanese Big Dai-X from X-Bomber (Star Fleet) repairs

Vintage Japanese Big Dai-X from X-Bomber (Star Fleet) repairs - Toy Polloi

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Every time I go to Japan I keep an eye out for any vintage toys from X-Bomber (Star Fleet to the rest of the world) and each time I come home with nothing as what I did see was way out of my budget. That was until this last trip when I came across a rather battered Big Dai-X toy from Takatoku (possibly).
This guy was well played with, missing the 'X' on his face and one of the missile fists, but I had to have him, and I knew I would be able to fix him up. Join me today as I get this rare vintage toy ready to go on display.
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@LaserLivestream Ай бұрын

Starfleet… Starfleet… Starfleet… Love seeing you create the parts missing on figures. Well done 👍

@toypolloi Ай бұрын

Thanks. This was a fun project as I'd never seen this before.

@LaserLivestream Ай бұрын

@@toypolloi Neither have I. Now that I know it exists, I’ll have to keep my eyes open!

@gieselats Ай бұрын

Building such a replacement part from scratch. Awesome. Such a small part. Not easy. Filming and creating at the same time, so impressive. Keep up the good work.

@toypolloi Ай бұрын

Thanks. This was a fun one. The camera always adds a certain extra issue to any project, but I have a system that mostly works. Sometimes I do things off camera just because it's so much easier and quicker.

@gieselats Ай бұрын

@@toypolloi always a pleasure to watch.

@simonrhodes84 Ай бұрын

Love the Marvel movie style ending🤣

@toypolloi Ай бұрын

That's an error on my part. Well spotted. I'll fix that before it goes out to everyone! Cheers

@toypolloi Ай бұрын

All sorted now 🖖🤩

@ooneybird27 Ай бұрын

Thanks for providing enjoyable videos that allow me to have a few minutes of pure escapism every day. It's a welcome relief to being out in this crazy world all day while trying to avoid the mostly depressing, but sometimes infuriating news. Great job on that repair.

@toypolloi Ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

@Ohmygodiamonfire Ай бұрын

Takutoku would have been the manufacturer of the toy, and Dynamic Planning would be the copyright owners, as that is the company the creator of the series, Go Nagai, owns. Hope that helps!

@chrisburns2309 Ай бұрын

I watched this series as a little kid in the early 80’s. Was terrified but i loved it. Remembered it all my life but couldnt find anything about it untill youtube, and aftera while it was released on dvd, including a cd of the music. Now as an adult i bought them both. No toys of StarFleet though, so thanks for this😊

@toypolloi Ай бұрын

It's still a fun watch. I don't think any toys were ever released for it outside of Japan at the time. I've certainly never seen any.

@edfletcher2404 Ай бұрын

Cool! I've never heard of this show or the toys. Awesome job!

@Simon-xc5oy Ай бұрын

Well in the Uk it used to be shown on Saturday mornings in the early 80s. And at the time it was truly stunning. We in the UK had not seen much in the way of Japanese tv or cartoons at that time. The only other thing was Battle of the Planets. So Starfleet as it was called here is about these evil space aliens in huge ships, attacking earth. They have bionic augmentation on limbs and faces etc and insect looking ships and soldiers. Then the flagship of earth is called the X Bomber, a huge ship that can fire x ray style death beams and is a heavily armoured and armed cruiser. One of its extra weapons is a giant robo mech that he is repairing in this video. Its stored on the ship and each of the crew pilot a different section on away missions as fighters etc. Then it can all form up together into the giant robot to kick the crap out of the bad guys. Its utterly bonkers Japanese anime standard stuff for them. But for us in the Uk, we had never seen anything like it. Think Captain Scarlet on steroids. Its also really grim, dark and gritty, with characters going through hell, getting killed and other weird stuff going on, like Ghost ships and mysterious alien women, interwoven with bits of Japanese legends and made using highly detailed models, hand puppets etc. Its story is gripping, the characters are interesting and the action and violence etc is non stop. Its one of the coolest shows for kids I have ever seen. And it pulls no punches. Its worth seeing even now....

@Cef21 Ай бұрын

Thanks for introducing me to Starfleet. I started watching the episodes on KZbin and they are incredible. The ship and character designs are awesome and the "puppets" look great for 19080's [practical effects. Oh, and great toy videos too!

@toypolloi Ай бұрын

It's a great show. Not well remembered by many. I love it.

@Simon-xc5oy Ай бұрын

You are not kidding. Its amazing to look at even today. At the time it had a huge cult following in England, as we had not seen anything like it before. It was shown before videos were mainstream and the internet etc, so no one in the UK had seen much Anime or how weird their tv and cartoons can be. In Japan it would have been lost in the background as this sort of thing was common place to them and their shops and tv were full of stuff like it. But in England it was unique, the only thing close to it had been the Gerry Anderson Captain Scarlet / Thunderbirds stuff etc....

@jackteacher1853 Ай бұрын

Awesome. I was on holiday once with my parents in Italy and these toys were pretty common. I was lucky enough to get an X-Bomber toy (in red for some reason) and a much larger Dia-X. The Dia-X was terrible, it didn't split into three parts but instead transformed into a space-ship thing that looked like nothing from the show whatsoever. All my toys are long gone now, and I never had this one, but it was great to see this blast from the past.

@user-ji1ln3ru6v Ай бұрын

This was from a great show!

@raccabird8889 Ай бұрын

Awesome a new video on my birthday

@toypolloi Ай бұрын

Happy birthday!

@raccabird8889 Ай бұрын

@@toypolloi thank you

@DanteSolablood Ай бұрын

Loved Starfleet as a kid, interesting fact is that a second season was ordered in the UK.. but a warehouse fire destroyed all the original props so it fell through.

@toypolloi Ай бұрын

I didn't know that. I'm just re-watching them now.

@necatron73 18 күн бұрын

I read that in Manga Max years ago. Just recently in Japan there was a museum event that showed off all of the surviving props from the show as well as spot of recreations used from the fiber glass resin casts they made the puppets from

@theincrediblemisternobody8724 Ай бұрын

Thank you for posting this awesome video on my birthday! Maximum respect and cheers from the U.S.!

@toypolloi Ай бұрын

Happy birthday!

@nolove175 Ай бұрын

I was a fan of starfleet in the late 80s I think it was. My brother and I would rent the VHS tapes.

@muttrogers6586 Ай бұрын

Great work on the Dai-X, Dave! Thanks for giving me a new robot to learn about!

@lostonwallace1396 Ай бұрын

Wowy-wow! I think that turned out nicely! I sent you something via Instagram, as I think I recognize that fist you used. Big Dai-X looks great!

@mx472000 Ай бұрын

Super cool!

@mlight6275 Ай бұрын

love star fleet, got the 7 and 12 inch records, and dvd box set.

@AlanVByrnes 5 күн бұрын

Awesomeness Robot hopefully I’ll find one when I’m in Japan perfect for a typical robot figure and excellent job with the fix up!! 👏👏👏

@ToySurprisevintage Ай бұрын

Great fix job Dave. Always amazing. I cannot wait to get to Japan in early 2025 and see what we can find. - Mysterion

@markshellard5894 Ай бұрын

Very Interesting repair

@Tim-57 Ай бұрын

Hey Dave Another show/toy I had never seen before, great fix. Take care😊

@toypolloi Ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

@yunoyuluvit Ай бұрын

The fist looks like it came from a vintage Xabungle toy, based on the character from 'Blue Gale Xabungle', or one of it's knock-offs. I'm not sure who manufactured it, but if you search "xabungle 1041", you'll see what I mean.

@BrynSmith76 Ай бұрын

I was coming to the comments to say the same thing. I had the toy as a kid. Now I only have the head. 😂

@yunoyuluvit Ай бұрын

@@BrynSmith76 It's crazy the things that stick in your head! I haven't seen one, in person, for nearly 40 years and the minute I saw it, that was all I could think about.

@alvarobarandiaran8848 Ай бұрын

I didn't even know about this show/toyline but regardless this was a really good restoration. Kudos on improving upon this little pile of potential to borrow that old saying from the tabletop miniatures side of things lol. Keep up the good work, Dave!

@toypolloi Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@ralphcooling7583 Ай бұрын

Hi Dave just watch your video and it turned out very good 👌. I remember that show it was good 👍 Keep up the great work Ralph

@daverage4729 Ай бұрын

Love these Star Fleet/X Bomber videos as it was one of the biggest highlights of my childhood. A great job Dave! Nice to see everyone's favourite big red Welsh named robot looking good. Did they ever make any toys of X-Bomber itself?

@LeutyMatt77 Ай бұрын

Dave, been a very very long time viewer of yours, living in Grantham Linc's. Just wanted to make it clear that your content and dedication to your channel really is an amazing and therapeutic viewing for me as I am severely permanently deaf since birth. I go by the subtitles and really relish in watching you mend and fix toy's that I cherished as a kid. Good luck on your Mile of Mayhem my friend.

@toypolloi Ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you! I hope the subtitles make sense. They are auto-generated so can be a bit hit and miss. Next week's main video has no speaking, just visuals. I'm trying something new.

@LeutyMatt77 Ай бұрын

@@toypolloi ha ha, I know. As a prolific user of subtitles it can be quite funny sometimes Dave because I know what you're doing or describing and I see the subtitles kind of glitch and come out with all sorts lol. Just know my friend that some of your viewers like me get more out of your videos than you can imagine. Thank you.

@toypolloi Ай бұрын

@LeutyMatt77 it's my pleasure!

@Glassy1979 Ай бұрын

Great vid and love the new intro!!

@toypolloi Ай бұрын

I'm glad you like it

@cimmerian100 Ай бұрын

send a message out across the sky ! ..sky ... sky... toi polloi has just fixed his big dai! .. dai.. dai..

@toypolloi Ай бұрын

😂

@necatron73 18 күн бұрын

Dynamic where the company that made the show aka Jin Dynamic. This company is or was owned by Go Nagi the creator of X-bomber, Mazinger, Devilman, Getter Robo. I owned a UK Star Fleet website in the 00's and did loads of pages about the series's

@toypolloi 18 күн бұрын

Thanks for the info

@Cyril29a Ай бұрын

I think it would be wonderful for viewers and for you if you started building and selling "repaire kits" You can have difefrent sized kits for different prices and also for different uses. They should include some paints, various colours, brushes, glue, file, pin tool, small saw, plastic weld, and of course stireen sheets. You can sell them optimized for certain toy lines so say have a star wars figure kit that includes lego pieces used for head repairs etc. I think you could sell them for quite a lot. Many of us would pay a large premium to take the guess work out of what to buy. I know that I don't repair most of my toys because I don't have the stuff I need not because I don't think I could do it. Going to the multiple stores and tracking down what I need to get started is the intimidating part. Please consider this Dave. You can make money and you can help many of us improve our collections. If you don't think it will be worth the trouble, then figure out what you would need to charge to make it worthwhile and charge that. For most people the price won't be the obstacle and really for starter kits we will only need very small amounts of everything so you can save money that way. This will be win win for you and for us.

@toypolloi Ай бұрын

It's a nice idea and something I have thought about. But the logistics and time to do something like that are just not possible for me to take on. Toy Polloi is a one person outfit, and I only just have enough time to do what I do now with regards content and the day to day running of the channels. Cheers Dave

@Cyril29a Ай бұрын

@@toypolloi Would you be able to create a shipping list for everything needed on amazon? If not is there another online shop where I can get what I need to get started? Maybe two or three shops... They would of course need to do international shipping.

@toypolloi Ай бұрын

Check out the tool shop section of toypolloi.com

@CarloFavarato Ай бұрын

I have informed my self and the tog should be a takatoku, the company held the licence

@UnicronHound Ай бұрын

I know I'm probably asking a dumb question, but for parts you only have reference photos for, like the face's X. Wouldn't it be easier blowing the picture up to the same size as the toy. As in, you hold the toy against the computer screen, adjusting the picture to be the same size as the toy, and then measure the dimensions of the item needs?

@toypolloi Ай бұрын

There are many ways to do it. I just go by eye as it never needs to be that precise. As long as the end result works, that's good enough for me.