Before watching the AstroBoy Animated Movie in the theatres, I had mixed feelings, is it gonna be another retold story with ideas from another producer or will it stay true to the original Astroboy from the past. 
To my astonishment, It wasn't half as bad as I expected it to be, kinda like a Disneyised Japanese Animation. Though still quite true to the original minus certain details, the movie is really not too bad, well, enough of my review, if you love astroboy, you just have to have this...Bandai's 2004 Osamu Tezuka Interactive Astroboy
The box art is kinda crappy and though it maybe a Bandai mold, there's a Maxifun at the corner of the box. My guess it's marketed by another company here.
Standing roughly 12 inches tall, this is one cool Astroboy boy with a fair amount of playabilty, the chest has 2 buttons, one opens the chest, the other creates some sound effects. The eyes light-up when turned to one side.
The feet has panels that opens to reveal the mechanics in Astroboys feet, there's button on the back of each boot which ejects the jetfire when Astroboy goes airborne.
The right hand ejects a reader which reads the biocards that came with the toy, the right hand has articulated figures. 
The left arm has a button which fires the left fist from the spring loaded arm and also opens to reveal the blaster arm.
The left blaster is molded in transperent blue plastic.
This is not a bad Astroboy toy much similar to the chogokin one but in a larger scale, the only bad point is the articulation on this figure is not the best and not that good in poses. Lack of elbow joints and the leg joints ain't the best around but overall impressive mold and size.
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