ROBOTapedia EXTRA - '85 Horikawa Toy Catalog

ABOVE: Colorful cover of the '85 Horikawa Toy Catalogue shows a sampling of Horikawa products available for 1985 including A: Super Space Scout; B: Gold Wind Up Gear Robot; C: Chrome Mechanical Radar Robot; D: Cosmic Fighter Robot; E: Acrobat Robot

ABOVE: Horikawa Super TV Robot Lambda I and Monster Robot both inspired an amazing array of Hong Kong and Taiwan copies.

ABOVE: Solid "Black" Super Giant Robot and the colorfully lithographed version.

ABOVE: Throughout the catalog, Robots share space with other Horikawa Toys such as the Mechanical Skipping Panda, shown here with the Mechanical Chrome Radar Robot and Gold Mechanical New Gear Robot .

ABOVE: Sounding Robot shares a page with three robots that bear a strong resemblance to the Sky and New Sky Robot: Space Attacker, Engine Robot, and Sharpshooter Robot.

ABOVE: Super Machine Lambda II

ABOVE: Super Astronaut (Lithograph Version), New Astronaut (Visor Version), and Missile Robot (Visor Version).

ABOVE: Smoking Engine Robot, Shooting Spacewalker, and New Sky Robot.

ABOVE: Shown here the Super Space Commander and Fighting Robot (in their rarely seen noseless configurations which used a completely different molding as well as mouth assembly) alongside both the original version of Excavator (rear on/off switch) and the New Excavator (front on/off switch).

ABOVE: Super Explorer Wide-Screen TV Robot and Space Scout shown with a very rare lithography variation of the Piston Robot.

ABOVE: Colorful Lithographed version of Super Robot and the dazzling all-chrome New Astronaut.

ABOVE: By 1985 the Acrobat Range had expanded to include a new Yellow version while the Chrome Version still remained available. Ranger Robot and Space Fighter shared many parts which is well-concealed by the dramatically different color treatments.