Rather then actually getting this catalog with a Jumbo, someone I bought a jumbo from found it laying around and threw it into the the deal, so I can't tell you for sure what jumbo this came with, but my guess is either the Getta Robo Gs, Mach Barron, or Raydeen. Why, look at the pictures and figure that out for yourself!

You might think that the reason we dig these catalogs so much is that they allow us to figure out just which toys were included in the series. Not so, in this case -- there's not much debate as to what Popy made as a Machnder-style toy. The great thing is that these are chock full of shots of PROTOTYPE Machinders that look almost nothing like the finished products. Check out the clunky proportions, the obvious brush-strokes, the lack of any shooting mechanisms. They're probably not even polyethylene -- several appear to be carved from wood or clay. These babies re-define the term "primitive," and it's safe to say than any Jumbo collector worth their salt would happily sell their own mothers into slavery for the chance to own one of them. It's still unknown, and highly doubtful, as to if any of them actually survived the 1970s.

FRONT COVER (right)
Jumbo Machinder!

JUMBO ARM CASTLE (left,top)
Here's an amazing picture of the Jumbo Arm Castle. Those red things sticking out of it are jumbo arm sized and allow you to pop on your 5 favorite attachment arms. Very scary. Also there's a close up of the Wing for Great Mazinger.

JUMBO LINE UP (left, second from top)
Mach Barron, Getta Poseidon, Getta Dragon, Getta Liger, Raydeen
This is another great shot, like I was talking about in the "catalog 2" section. The photos that Popy used for publicity and box art were not always of the actual toy, sometimes time restraints caused them to take pictures of the prototypes, and hope that not much changed before they were actually released. Here's a great example of one that changed quite a bit. Check out Raydeen. Yep. No firing mechanism on his stomach like the real character, and get a load of that left arm? It looks like it might even be carved out of something, wood or clay perhaps. Wow! For some reason or another Popy decided that this version of the bow fist was no good and resculped the entire thing in a much more streamlined variation. What I wouldn't do to get my hands on one of these prototype versions.

XX ARM ATTACHMENTS (left, third from top)
Close up of the XX-Series

ZZ ARM ATTACHMENTS (left, fourth from top)
Close up of ZZ-1, ZZ-2, & ZZ-3

More ZZ ARM ATTACHMENTS (left, third from bottom)
Close up of ZZ-4, ZZ-5, ZZ-6 & ZZ-7

TWO MAJOR ACCESSORIES (left second from bottom)
A Close up of the ZZ-8, Jumbo Arm Castle as well as the Cofin-like box accessory for Great Mazinger. Both of these were used to store assorted arm attachments. Something like a Machinder stockpile. The Coffin box thing was a mail away special. Popy sent out surveys

(check out catalog 2 for one of these) and drew from the entries each month. The lucky winner would receive 5 free arm attachments and this storage box. If only I would have found out about this contest 23 years ago...

GREAT MAZINGER'S COFFIN BOX (left bottom)
Here's the descriptions of how to win one of these accessory boxes.

BACK COVER (right)
Yes my friends that is what you think it is. It's a membership card to the Jumbo Machinder Fighting League. You can cut this out, put your picture in the little box in the upper right corner and *presto!* you are now a member committed to protecting the earth. Damn cool! Check out "Captain Alt"