| MildRobo Sensor Robots Apogee & Perigee Bandai Popy 1984 Japan - MildRobo Sensor Robots, Apogee & Perigee, a pair of plastic, battery operated robots made in Japan in 1984 by Bandai. Product of Popy. Part no. 0305639. Apogee and Perigee are also known as MildBoy and MildGirl. They supposedly communicate by some sort of cosmic tele-sensory connection. Mildboy (and Mildgirl): Originally, Apogee and Perigee were characters in a Suntory Whiskey commercial in 1984. The popularity of the commercials spawned the toys Mildboy and Mildgirl, which were sold in Japan. Bandai brought the series to the US in 1985 as the Love Bo-Gi-Bots. Mild Girl became GI Bot and Mild Boy became BO Bot.
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Lov Search by Bandai ®
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Lov Search by Bandai ®
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Lov Search by Bandai ®
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| Bandai's parent company Popy is famous for their highly collectible mid 1970s line of Chogokin die-cast metal robot figures. By the early 1980s metal gave way to plastic in the business of toy making, so Popy marketed new lines of collectible Chogokin robot figures under the Bandai brand.
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Source: Private Hobbist Collector, Internet, www.toyriffics.com, My Collection - Updated 04-14-2011
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