MR MERCURY, VERSION 2 - MARX/LINEMAR - JAPAN

Battery op remote control robot. Walking action. Lifts objects. The original design for 1961 was altered slightly: the plastic lower arms have been replaced with more substantial and simpler metal ones and the light has been removed from the head. On some versions (not the one pictured here) the complex lighted chest logo has been replaced with a simpler litho logo. The color scheme is still the original grey body with blue arms.

The box art is the same as Version 1 with just the removal of the reference to a light. It still depicts the original plastic tubular arms. One can surmise that the changed arms are a simplification or a response to design problems with he original. The removal of the light might be either another simplification or a power saving measure. Reference to the Yonezawa manufacturer has been removed. This second, transitional version generated a number of variations as old parts were used up.