CGGC - Rampax Robot - a photo on Flickriver

            Rampax is from a series of six 5" plastic robots made by CGGC in Italy.  They were sold in kit form and had to be assembled.  I don’t know when they were first produced, but I was given the individually boxed Rampax in 1985.

The six robots were not completely different, but shared components such as arms, legs and feet.  These pieces were all interchangeable and it seems that some were randomly packed out, so the makeup of specific robots was inconsistent.  Each robot had two distinct, spring launched weapons.  The long weapon for the bent right arm protruded from the elbow and hooked in place; pushing up on the hook launched the weapon.  The left arm had a mechanism in the shoulder that held the weapon in place while the arm was down, but launched the devise when the arm was raised.

The robots were also distributed in France by a company named Remus, which sold them in two sets of three.  The French packaging was quite different from the Italian boxes that I’ve seen, but the plastic parts were still molded in Italy.  Again, I have no idea of the original time line for these, but I obtained an incomplete set in 1991.

Five of the robots - Drakis, Torang, Fergus, Argon and Rampax - kept their names for both Italian and French issues.  The sixth one, originally Satan in Italy, was renamed Mirox in France.  I guess that the French didn’t want kids playing with the devil.

I did custom work on my Rampax robot.  I added leg gears, hinge covers and insect pin antennas, and did a complete paint job.

Taken on: March 21, 2021

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