This was my second, actual Horikawa Robot. Although I wasn’t a kid when I got it, I was a kid at heart, partly because I only paid $75. If you could find a mint version with the box today, you’d spend 10x what it cost me. I sold a few years later, along with my other robots, on eBay after we’d moved to the Bay Area during the dot-com bubble. Sometimes you gotta sell the things you love to pay the bills for the ones you love — that’s called life. I think I got $125 — which was amazing to me at that time.
I still love toys and memories like these; it’s just now that they’re 6 feet tall. =-)
This was my second, actual Horikawa Robot. Although I wasn’t a kid when I got it, I was a kid at heart, partly because I only paid $75. If you could find a mint version with the box today, you’d spend 10x what it cost me. I sold a few years later, along with my other robots, on eBay after we’d moved to the Bay Area during the dot-com bubble. Sometimes you gotta sell the things you love to pay the bills for the ones you love — that’s called life. I think I got $125 — which was amazing to me at that time.
I still love toys and memories like these; it’s just now that they’re 6 feet tall. =-)
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