The Rise And Fall Of The SHOGUN WARRIORS | Vintage Henshin EXTRA

I'm 52yrs old ,and you had me mouth open in awe for the entire video. Thank you for turning me into an 8yr old full of wonder again.

I spoke to Marty Abrams from Mego a couple of weeks back, he told me that when he was getting Microman from Takara, he visited Bandai and was also offered what would become Shogun Warriors but he turned it down. When he saw the Mattel line on the shelves, he told me he really regretted it.

I just realized that by dying when they did, the shogun warriors dodged a major bullet, the toy line discontinued about the time the empire strikes back toyline came out, along with the infamous boba fett figure controversy, considering how many small projectiles those figure launched, if the changing of toy fads hadn’t killed them, the parent groups and controversy of that frenzy certainly would have

This video brought a tear to this 46 year old fans eye. Great video!

I was born in 73. I can remember the craze in the late 70s. I was so happy anime caught on in America. In Chinatown at NYC I would always see model kits of various mech robots and knew that world still existed. Great video.

RAIDEEN was my favorite. I'm 49 years old and this really brings back some very fond memories. I had the five inch chogokin figure of RAIDEEN. Thank you for the nostalgia.

There was one major detail you left out of your retrospective of this toyline, one that was also a major factor in its downfall. Kids were hurting eachother with the toy's projectiles, and it stirred the ire of parents all across America. This was during the hight of the child safety scare that saw old toylines like this one get heavily nudderd to meet the new safety regulations. So not only was it facing stiff competition from other toylines, but it also became a pariah among parents because of previous incidents with kids shooting at eachother with the toy's missiles.

I remember having a Godzilla figure as a child and after I saw Godzilla vs. The cosmic monster I covered my Godzilla figure in aluminum foil to make my own Mechagodzilla.

These images were truly everything to my seventh grade heart and mind. I really believe this was my first taste of what it's like to have your soul crushed. Seeing the TV guide listing on our local station for the afternoon Shogun cartoon at 5pm in Sept 1980 and it never aired. They continued showing Battle of the Planets reruns and I went ahead and just grew up. Thanks for showing me the reality of the situation. It was wonderful playing with those fantastical toys.

I had Great Mazinga and Godzilla...and some of the Shogun Warriors Marvel Comics.

The Marvel Micronauts comic was one of the better efforts of its era, went far beyond just being a toy commercial. It was admittedly rather obvious about borrowing from Star Wars in spots, but it executed it well and a young Michael Golden's artwork gave it a distinctive look. The similarly toy-inspired Rom: Spaceknight book lasted longer and was (at times) a better read, but the original arc in Micronauts was top notch.

"Invincible Guardians of World Freedom" is such an incredible tagline.

This is the best Shogun Warriors historical video on YouTube. All the other ones fall short of this one. Even the video produced by Toy Galaxy was lackluster. I loved how you tied in the history and aftermath of Japanese toys as a whole surrounding the legacy of Shogun Warriors. This is the quintessential video to show others who don't know what Shogun Warriors was about. Thank you for your time and effort in producing this video!!

What makes me sick to my stomach is knowing that as a kid I owned those classic Shogun Warrior characters I had mazinger Z and the great mazinger I remember casually losing the rocket punch fist and breaking off one of the diecast legs on my mazinger Z you see as an adult one of my past times is collecting soul of chogokin figures both modern and classic so it hurts me deep down in my gut to know that as a stupid little kid I was so reckless and careless with a figure that as an adult I would pay a small fortune for sometimes I think about wanting to build a time machine and going back in time and kicking my younger self right in the ass.

I also didn't realize how much a moving force Kiku Honolulu was in the tokusatsu/toy/ licensing development. I was born a little too late in 1981, but I remember watching a little bit of diamond eye on it when I was really small and they re-aired kikaida in 1993 for a short bit. But to me kiku was just the channel my Grandparents watched Abarembo Shogun and other Japanese mystery and samurai dramas on. My dad still watches their new samurai shows even now. Amazing to think that they contributed so much. Wow.

excellent video dude --- really brought back some memories!

As a child of this era, I can say that the lack of any TV series for the Shogun Warriors or Godaikin had no serious impact on whether or not I wanted them. It was the price point. I had a number of the smaller vehicles from the Shogun Warriors line. The Shigcon Jet was one of my favorite toys, despite it not fitting in with my Star Wars toys. The giant robots were simply not in my price range. I was practically drooling the first time I saw Godaikin mecha at Toys R Us, but they were outrageously expensive. It would have taken me half a years worth of allowance to buy Golion. That doesn't seem so long as an adult, but it's an eternity when you're a kid.

Good stuff! The early/mid 80s TRU “robot aisle” was magical; Dougram, Votoms, Xabungle, Dunbine, Prares Sanshiro, etc. Gold, Jerry, gold!

Great video! I was born in 74 and have distinct memories of finding Shogun toys at rummage sales. I was also strangely given a brand new Bandai Godaikin Godsigma at Rahway Penitentiary in the mid 80's, I'm still not sure that wasn't a fever dream.

I was so envious of the neighborhood kids who had these toys...