Goldorak Page
The Grendizer distributed in the Europe market was called Goldorak and was a popular France anime show.
Believe there are 3 versions of the jumbo by looking on the back side of the torso:
Like most Mattel type versions, Goldorak was cheapened up compared to the Popy Grendizer and added missile shooting hand
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Customization of Goldorak
Modifying Goldorak was one of my first custom projects to provide it with a Left arm that looked like the right side. The Popy Grendizer has smaller fists and a slightly different cuff and red blade piece. To make a Left fist, I started by molding and copying the "laser ports" of the right fist and applying them onto a standard left fist. The Right cuff was copied along with the red blade.
The fist color is very close to the original, but with different lighting, they do give off a slight different hue from the vinyl and the 2 part urethane plastic resin. The reproduction fist is hollow, but is a little heavier than the original, but is quite durable and has some flexibility (not hard as a rock). The red triangle outer sleeve is made with a pliable plastic resin and has close to the same feel as the original. The piece can flex a good deal, but one should not attempt to try and remove it as the circular part will not stretch and it will end up cracked. |
The next customization to Goldorak was to give it a larger protruding chest appearance as Grendizer. The chest piece is over sized by about an 1/8" all around. This does make it larger than the Grendizer chest, but looks nice at an angle versus a straight on view.
Some final fit photos and a few in-progress photos as I built up the initial front view of the item. Then made a mold of the front part to then pour resin into it and hold up against the Goldorak torso. After cleaning the piece shown in the last photo, I then put it back into the front mold and could pour the back mold piece. Yeah, a bit of a hassle and steps, but worked out :-) |