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[Kritch]

I got these figures in a little shop in the Peruvian Andes in 2003. They each came in a packet of chocolate covered biscuit balls that cost about 10p / 15 cents each. The packets said they should have a bird figure inside but none did, they all had spaceships. After opening the first one and getting the space shuttle type model I immediately went back and bought more. Over the next week I bought his whole stock.and although I was in that village for 3 months he never got more. The tallest figure (the silver humanoid robot) is 38mm tall.

 

It's clear that some of the figures are stollen from other IPs, the most obvious is the squat green guy who has R2D2's body but with rockets from one of the ships grafted on (the 2 silver and one gold ship). I think the the silver robot is a copy of a cheap Japanese line, and the one with the curved, pointed nose looks like it could be from Star Trek, but I'm not sure about the others. It looks like some are just parts of larger models, the underside of the silver triangular one has a peg for attaching to something, and a few look like they could originally be backpacks for figures. Can anybody help out?

 

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[DaHumorist]

The more humanoid-shaped robot definitely looks like it was inspired by ARCO Rogun Robots. It's not exact, but definitely similar.

[Kritch]

The more humanoid-shaped robot definitely looks like it was inspired by ARCO Rogun Robots. It's not exact, but definitely similar.

Thanks, that's the one I was thinking of, it's this figure but with its hands and top half of its head missing

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Picture from https://thingsofplas...s-set-7018.html via image search

 

[Flashbax]

I know companies like ARCO and Soma released stuff like this

[Rubberhammer]

Arco Rogun Robots.

Looks like they just cut off the hands and the top of the head and went for it.

[Kritch]

Looks like lots of the spaceships were taken from this set

 

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[benkobiman]

That orbital R2-D2 is funny.  Also the two green two legged things are also definitely a rogun robot hackjob, minus the head,  arms and part of the feet.  

 

Edited by benkobiman, 29 March 2021 - 04:54 PM.

[Kritch]

Also the two green two legged things are also definitely a rogun robot hackjob, minus the head,  arms and part of the feet. 

Thanks, I knew they looked familiar