The Star Strider belongs to a generation that imagined the future through toys.
Its bold colors, mechanical shapes, gauges, gears, and oversized features reflect a time when space travel and futuristic technology captured the imagination of children everywhere. A toy robot didn’t need to be realistic. It only needed to suggest what tomorrow might look like.
That’s what makes these objects so powerful today. They preserve not only memories of childhood, but memories of what the future once looked like through a child’s eyes.
From the Artist:
I was ECD of Hakuhodo Advertising America in Los Angeles, and I'd picked it up at the airport in Tokyo.
I sold it 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 $95, which was amazing to me at that time.
I still love toys and memories like these; it’s just now, this one is 6 feet tall. =-)
The Star Strider belongs to a generation that imagined the future through toys.
Its bold colors, mechanical shapes, gauges, gears, and oversized features reflect a time when space travel and futuristic technology captured the imagination of children everywhere. A toy robot didn’t need to be realistic. It only needed to suggest what tomorrow might look like.
That’s what makes these objects so powerful today. They preserve not only memories of childhood, but memories of what the future once looked like through a child’s eyes.
From the Artist:
I was ECD of Hakuhodo Advertising America in Los Angeles, and I'd picked it up at the airport in Tokyo.
I sold it 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 $95, which was amazing to me at that time.
I still love toys and memories like these; it’s just now, this one is 6 feet tall. =-)
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