HIMITSU SENTAI GORANGERS and DENJIN ZABOGA dolls

[amphiboid]

Okay, I need to talk to the experts, and you people are the experts. I have some vinyl dolls from the 70's I'm trying to get sold. I sold a vinyl Kikaida doll from 1975 a long time back for like $85 or something like that. It was in decent shape. A week later I saw someone else sell a really beaten up version of the same doll, with one arm missing and the other arm cracked in half, and it sold for nearly 3 times what mine sold for! I thought to myself, "I really have no idea what I'm doing here! I don't know my own merchandise!" I don't want to underestimate, or overestimate, the possible value of my little dolls, and I thought, well, I gotta ask the serious people.

Question 1: I have these little Himitsu Sentai Gorenja (Go Rangers) dolls--they're small, about 5 inches tall. But I have all five of them, including the pinkie girl ranger with the heart face I used to love love love so much. Yep, they're all there--a little scuffed, somewhat damaged in the paint department, but otherwise intact. Are these sought after at all? Are there websites with people I could bug about my upcoming Ebay sale?

Question 2: Does anyone care about DENJIN ZABOGA? I have a 12" doll of him, but I notice no Zaboga listings on Ebay. Have people forgotten about him or is he just rare or is he lame or something?

Question 3: Are there verifiable historical facts pertaining to these two TV shows that I can include in my ad to illustrate how special and significant these characters are? Like "The GoRangers were the first non-metallic sentai group ever created" or "Zaboga was technically the first heroic robot who traveled to Earth from another galaxy and he is therefore basically a robot equivalent of Superman" or some such stuffy nonsense? (I just made those up as examples; as you can see I know basically nothing about the history of these shows.)

These toys are all at least 30 years old. 30 years old!

Thanking everyone in advance for any help you may be able to give me here.

[Zone Fighter]

Goranger first and longest running sentai series, at 84 episodes. (And in my opinion the best sentai). First of only two created by Ishinomori, Shotaro (creator of the Kamen Riders and many other heroes). First of only two not to have giant monsters fought by giant robots. Features Makoto, Naoya (Misaki, Daisuke in Tsuburaya Productions Fireman) as the Red Ranger; Miyauchi, Hiroshi (star of Kamen Rider V3 & Kaiketsu Zubat) as the Blue Ranger. He would also be Big One in the second sentai, J.A.K.Q. Dengeki Tai and the mentor in Choriki Sentai Ohrenjâ. Itô, Yukio who played the Green Ranger would go on to play Battle Cossack in Battle Fever J, first sentai with a giant robot.

Denjin Zaboga was a robot that could transform into a motorcycle. As far as I know Denjin Zaboga was the last live action hero series by P-Productions. It featured the late Yamaguchi, Akira (Yuki, Joji/Riderman in Kamen Rider V3) as Daimon, Yutaka the man who controled Zaboga. He gave the show its heart and spirit as Zaboga has absolutly no personality.

"Denjin Zaboga, go!"

[amphiboid]

Thanks! That is awesome, just the sort of material I was hoping folks here would know. Anyone have more? It is totally welcomed.

I never saw Zaboga, however as a matter of fact I did watch "Go Rangers" when I was a kid, it was in Japanese without subtitles so I was pretty lost, but the same was true when I watched Kikaida and that never seemed a problem. Monsters attack people, robot person appears and shouts something. They fight. Somehow the finer details of the stories were not too important!

In some ways I even think that watching the shows without understanding the dialogue enhanced the experience. It made you watch the visuals more attentively or something. The cool monster/ranger/robot suits had a special crispy sparkly shiny quality to them.

[Zone Fighter]

More about Denjin Zaboga:

It was divided into two parts. The first 39 episodes feature the evil group SIGMA (named after a letter in the Greek alphabet) which used cyborgs and robots to commit crimes. SIGMA was lead by the evil Dr. Akunomiya a wheelchair bound scientist. These episodes were shown in Hawaii. Episodes 40-52 featured Kyouryuu Gundan, the Dragon Army or the Dinosaur Army. Kyouryuu Gundan had lizard men and robots which looked like dragons or dinosaurs. It was lead by the 3-Faced Dragon. These episodes were not shown in Hawaii.

There was a long break between the two parts. Episode 39 aired in Japan on December 27th 1974. Episode 40 wasn't aired until April 6th 1975. Episodes 40-52 had the subtitle: Denjin Zaboga tai Kyouryuu Gundan (Electroid Zaboga vs the Dragon [Dinosaur] Army".


Sorry I don't know anything about the value of the toys you have.

[amphiboid]

Thanks again! There's an Ebay ad now, a link to a link to it was posted in the "Visit This Place" section.