SPACE FIGHTER - HORIKAWA - JAPAN

Plastic and tin battery operated robot with guns in chest and smoke action. Plastic body with two guns set into a tinplate chest panel. This is the same toy as the Fighting Robot but with the added smoke function. The robot was also produced by SJN of Taiwan in a virtually identical form. Wedge shaped feet. Sliding leg action. No lights in the chest.

Two styles of waist litho panels are used by Horikawa, it’s the same for the Fighting Robot; the silver litho panel was probably the first, then the red and yellow panel. The SJM Taiwan copy only uses the red and yellow panel

The Horikawa Space Fighter have "Made in Japan" on the battery cover. The Space Fighter is new in the 1977 SH catalog, art 5029


The US version appears as new in 1977 Horikawa catalog, art. 5029; it is there in 1980. Versions of it can still be found in 1985.