Metal House Robots

After enjoying a long run of non-stop growth from the late 1950s through the mid-1970s, the Japanese tin toy industry found the 1980s a difficult environment in which to survive.

The majority of the companies who just a few years earlier were staple items found in the toy departments of nearly every popular price retailer across the globe were out of business by the end of the decade.

Many of Horikawas designs were carried over by Metal House including the Super Space Giant and Star Strider, both of which are in still in production today.

Additional products such as Space Evil* (packaged for but never actually sold under the brand name Bliking) share many things in common with their Horikawa ancestors from the 1960s/early 1970s.

Metal House remains as the only traditional Japanese manufacturer of battery operated tin toy robots still in business today.