Rare/Bizarre Merchandise

[Little Brown Fox]

Well, to be fair, I think some people do interpret him as flying with his feet still visible, with the jets coming out of the bottoms of his feet. In fact, it's now canon in both LAB and the Reboot.

Now, that toy... holy christ that toy...

And the box is probably like that to avoid copyright crap, or something. It is terrible, though; bless bootleg toys...

[Earthshine]

A ginger Atom!

Indeed, bless bootleg toys.

[Shiyonasan]

The Japanese site Hi-Fi Record Store is re-releasing an LP with the sound effects from the 1960s Astro Boy series done by Matsuo Ohno. The theme song is also included. [url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/872704-Matsuo-Ono]You can read a little about Matsuo Ohno by clicking this link.[/url]

[url=http://www.hi-fi.gr.jp/index.html?utm_source=Hi-Fi&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=20151001&rec_id=18210]Original link[/url]

[url=https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hi-fi.gr.jp%2Findex.html%3Futm_source%3DHi-Fi%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter%26utm_campaign%3D20151001%26rec_id%3D18210&edit-text=]Google Translation[/url]

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[Tetsuwan Penguin]

The third sound byte link has the sound effects for Astro's footsteps!

[Dragonrider1227]

Kinda want XD

[Little Brown Fox]

oooh, his footsteps? hahahaha. I like the weird sounds his feet make.

[Shiyonasan]

Atom isn't just a rugby mascot anymore. He's now in collaboration with the Japan Gymnastics Association!

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[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Uran too!
Do you have the link to this?

[Little Brown Fox]

That weird tiny Atom really puts me off...

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

That weird tiny Atom really puts me off...

Yeah, his head to body ratio is even smaller there then it was in the 1980 anime.