TOBOR! Squatter-Bot. [not all air brush]

used my extra paint from a project for this, did it for fun mostly. im really stoked on how it came out...lemme know what you think,








gid head, chest, and scraped knee,

-Grizlli Atom

 

He looks like a Mexican emo kid trying to be punk.

 

Quote of the year?

 

+1

It could also be garubans low budget mexican cousin.

 

Wasn't someone trying to sell these things on KR?

 

you have my vote!

 

i dunno i got him at the comicon across from toytokyo, i had extra acrylic and thought hed be fun to paint...he was.

 

LOL... I think the guy selling them was originally hyping them up that he was gonna sell out of these things like over 18 months ago...

 

they were an insanely hi run i know that much, thousands + or something of the sort. i was actually suprised to find out these guys are solid gid vinyl theres so muc paint youd never know head to toe gid lurks underneath, once i started stripping this guy i was almost tempted to keep it just gid, but the emo chollo poser bunk robo called out to me

 

Yeah, I bought one of these too at NYCC, he was selling them for like 25 bucks there. I think he told me, he had like 500 or around that produced, then he lost like one hundred of them on the shipping back. Instead of painting them all up in the same color way, he should have released a bunch of different smaller color runs... oh well. Anyway, it is glow vinyl, why you would paint completely over glow vinyl baffles me, but I've thought about stripping mine too.

 

there are supposed to be more editions, i think only the og colorway will be so many pieces thou

 

That's vinyl? Wow...looked like somebody's home-cast resin to me.

 

yeah i know he carved it out of baked clay so it has a real chipped away look to the sculpt, its sorta cool actually. the idea of these in resin sounds a lil better then the vinyl even, BUT im a whore for resin casts so im byass

 

Whoa, I always thought it was resin too.
That would have made it a bit cooler.

 

nothing could make that thing look cool

 

Lol.
I'd think he'd be cool if his left hand can hold a joint and the right one can shoot flames.

 

What did it look like before you painted it? Was it just green?

I've been really confused by this tobor thing.

 

I think it should have been called PARC!

 

http://www.bcbcbtoys.com/index.php

there are pics on his site

 

Is it evil that I find it amusing that he still has some of his "edition of 50" pieces left after like a year and a half?

 

Didja know that there was actually a Tobor toy in the 70s?

http://www.plaidstallions.com/true78/electronics.html

I feel like I've also seen a toy or robot design that looks very, very similar to this Tobor toy, in particular, the arms. Can anyone remember what this is?

 

It's a rip off of an old wind up toy robot...

 

Oh man....I HAD that TOBOR when I was a kid. This guys design looks like a little wind up robot with a clear domed head I had back in the day.

 

You mean this one?