I believe these were late 70's right around the time Star Wars was released, but they resembled Voltron so much I'd say it's close enough. I'm pretty sure I have some of the 'mini' versions of these in storage. They were about the size of the typical action figure and their bodies were made of die cast metal while the arms, legs and head were plastic. Only the arms and head moved however and as I recall the arms did not move independantly either. I never could convince my folks how desperately I *needed* one of the big ones, LOL.

These toys were awesome. They predated Voltron by a few years. They also had an americanized japanese cartoon. It was called Force Five. It featured a bunch of the robots and everyday had a different one on it. My favorite was The Starvengers which featured Star Dragon, the last one on the right in the picture. I also remember they had a Godzilla shogun warrior and Rodan as well. God I loved these!!!

I remember that I was visiting my cousin in Hartford and they were rich. His dad bought us both one. I had Raydeen and I forgot which one he had. Anyway, we were playing with them and they're fists shot off so we started shooting them at each other. Long story short, Raydeen's fist connected with my cousins right eye and he fell over a chair. He gets up crying. "we were like 6 years old." Half hour later he has a huge black eye. His dad seeing this, breaks open one of the fists to see what the hell is inside these things. Ends up, they are weighted with big F@*&IN sand bags. The moral of this story is, actually there is no moral to this story.