Tom New Yearznable (@tomaznable.bsky.social)

The 70s Super Robot That Didn’t Have an Anime: Gattai Robot Atlanger Introduction When talking about the mecha genre, omitting the merchandise component often tells an incomplete story. Most shows are historically also toy commercials, and sometimes decisions can be traced to bottom lines more than creative choices by a director or writer. But what about a giant robot that, for the most part, was only ever a toy? That’s the story of Gattai Robot Atlanger, a robot from the 1970s that didn’t have a cool and dramatic TV series to excite the imagination and endear itself to an audience, yet still managed to find success by looking cool, being affordable on a kid’s allowance, and having lots of playability. http://ogiuemaniax.com/2025/12/21/the-70s-super-robot-that-didnt-have-an-anime-gattai-robot-atlanger/