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==Space Explorer release date==
Hey there, do you have any links to the Yonezawa catalogue that shows Space Explorer was definitely released in 1968? I've read a lot of different dates for his release on the internet, so it would be good to have that on a citation in the pages that mention him (he's also brought up in [[Pre-Transformers]] and [[Eletrix]]). Thanks! ([[User:FortressMaxxing|FortressMaxxing]] ([[User talk:FortressMaxxing|talk]]) 17:15, 11 April 2026 (EDT))
:Okay, sure. [https://www.alphadrome.net/forums/topic/18830-yonezawa-catalog-1968 Here you go.] If you want to double check them, the “AcroBot” robot on the opposite page appears in the 1968 Montgomery Ward Christmas wish book (page 278).

:Outside of that, ‘68 makes more sense when you look at Yonezawa’s other robots from around the same period. It’s far more advanced than what they were releasing even through most of the early ‘60s. Smoking Robot in 1960, Modern Robot in 1962, these are all very basic walking robots with features like a flashing light. 1959 is closer to when [https://vintagespacetoys.com/products/yonezawa-space-explorer-2/  this Space Explorer] robot came out though, which is properly simple for its time. 

:I think that might be why you ran into trying to find the date, “space explorer” is the name of [https://www.theoldrobots.com/Space_Explorer.html  three or four] different walking tin robots, all designed by Marumiya (now [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_House_Robots  Metal House]), then released by Yonezawa. Marumiya was the designer and manufacturer of tin robots across all of the major toy distributors, it’s why so many releases from the period look similar and share parts. It’s much like how Takara started as the vinyl manufacturer for Tsukudaya. 

:Space Explorer was also in an advertisement from December 1967, for an Australian department store called “David Jones”, but I don’t think I have a copy of that one. Either way, it wasn’t in Yonezawa’s 1967 catalog, and it was no longer listed “new” in the 1969 catalog. Hope that helps. [[User:Alpha Trihard|Alpha Trihard]] ([[User talk:Alpha Trihard|talk]]) 11:51, 12 April 2026 (EDT)