SPACE FIGHTER - HORIKAWA - JAPAN

Small 9 inch tin and plastic battery operated robot with guns behind doors in chest. A reworking of the Engine robot. Plastic legs that taper at the top. Fly eyes. Unusually, the robot's body can move up and down on the legs. This gives the robot a distinctive bouncy walking action.

Produced in a brown version and in grey with red eyes. The litho on each version differs slightly. The box art is the same. The first sighting of the brown version is 1971. The grey version appears in the Amico Inc. 1972 Catalog