Features
These toys featured spring-loaded launcher weapons such as missiles, shuriken and battle axes. Some were able to launch their fists while the later diecast versions also had the ability to transform into different shapes. Raydeen, for example, could become a birdlike spaceship. These "convertible" editions were the precursors to the Transformers line of toy robots, but unlike the later products, it was not unusual for minor dissasembly to be required to achieve the secondary form. There was even a robot named Megatron in issue #18 of the comic, a name subsequently used multiple times for the leader of the evil Decepticons from Transformers. The second form of the toy was not always functional, one example being Gaiking's "giant skull," which was actually the head for Daiku Maryu, a space dragon toy not actually released in the U.S.
Several of the anime-based toys from this line were seen in the 1980s as part of Jim Terry's Force Five series.
The Shogun Warriors name was revived by Toynami in 2010 as an all-new toy line.
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