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Saturday, 27 August 2011

SWORD Robot Update

As promised here's the super cool Estrela robot as seen on the equally cool Brinquedos Raros. We've seen this bot before but the side-view of the box is new to the blog, which you can see a little clearer below.
Besides the MEV2 there's a Booster Rocket top left and also a red LEM. As we've discussed before back in April last year, the Booster appeared on the box top and together with the MEV2 on the robot chest TV scroll as well. It's likely that these images were copies of Ed Valigursky's original artwork, a tradition which, as we know, also included Century 21 Toys and their own Booster Rocket box art.

Has anybody got one of these Estrela robots?

2 comments:

ive said...

The box is a repro. I emailed with the seller some time ago and he told me.

WOODSY said...

Really? How interesting. It looks old. Have you got the robot by any chance ive?

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