POSTED BY

Steven Leckart

AT 7:45 AM
Friday July 10, 2009

Junk • Retro • Robots • Science Fiction • Toys

1980s • chicken • contest

Contest: Win My Fighting Cock-Bot

cockbot3000.jpg I stumbled on this Fighting Cock-bot at a junk shop in San Francisco that was having an everything-must-go sale. The box is dated 1986 and indicates the robo-chicken was manufactured by the Chi Land Plastic Manufacturing, Co in Taiwan.

Aside from stumbling on a .gov that lists the manufacturer, I haven't had much luck tracking any more of these down online. (Feel free to Google "fighting cock" and let me know if you find one.)

Battery-operated, the 12-inch toy is supposed to fire little plastic discs ("bullets") that you store in little plastic "eggs." To be honest, I don't really care what the thing does.

The packaging is what sold me on it [sic for everything below...]:

• Head with colorful lamp

• Chest with colorful lamp

• Attached with 2 eggs. There are 12 bullets in each egg.

• Walkable feet for advancing

• Wings can wave and shoot the bullet.

• The cock can turn it body for 360°

• Never let a child swallow the bullet

cockcollage.jpg

For those not keeping score: the Fighting Cock has a cockpit emblazoned with the phrase "Space Cock."
You really can't make this stuff up.

Enter To Win:

Get creative. PhotoShop the art (here's a larger version). Create an original painting, drawing, watercolor of or inspired by the Fighting Chicken. Write a song. Shoot a video of yourself singing said song. Create a claymation music video for said song.

Post a link to your stuff in the comments below or email me: steven AT boingboing DOT net ; The winner will be chosen based on the merit, effort, and originality of his/her creation. Go nuts.

...And remember: never, ever swallow the bullet. Unless, of course, you are an adult.

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27 Comments

Brandon West

#1 – 8:01 AM July 10, 2009

Holy shit that's AWESOME! I wish I had time to put something together... maybe I can bang something out tonight.

dculberson

#2 – 8:09 AM July 10, 2009

I wish I had walkable feet for advancing.

greenglyph

#3 – 8:14 AM July 10, 2009

What's the deadline?

Steven Leckart

#4 – 8:14 AM July 10, 2009

@Brandon:

Take your time. I'm not going to hand this sucker away to just anything that comes in quickly.

john

#5 – 8:18 AM July 10, 2009

Heh heh, someone else has found one of these too! I'll have to go and dig up the picture of myself with a "Space Cock" I took way back in the early 90s, what a hoot!

Can't for the life of me remember what I ended up doing with it. I think I gave it away to a friend as a present. Maybe they still have it somewhere.

I never had the original box though, just the SC itself.

Now I can't stop giggling about it still...

Joel Johnson

#6 – 9:14 AM July 10, 2009

OMG I WANT THIS

JHop

#7 – 9:39 AM July 10, 2009

My kickball team, The Fighting Cocks, will be putting our heads together for this one. We need a new mascot.

Cantley

#8 – 10:55 AM July 10, 2009

Here's another one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/toyranch/439352710/

GreyTheory

#9 – 11:01 AM July 10, 2009

"We can rebuild him. We have the McNuggets."

Steven Leckart

#10 – 2:06 PM July 10, 2009

@Cantley: Great find.

lovemoose

#11 – 3:54 AM July 11, 2009

Surely this should have been Joel's leaving gift? It pretty much says everything one could want to say on parting with a valued work colleague.

J McArthur

#12 – 10:04 AM July 11, 2009

Here's my entry. Space Cock rocks!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40330222@N06/3707928051/

Charles

#13 – 5:16 PM July 11, 2009

I got to say... that is one impressive cock :-D

Enochrewt

#14 – 8:19 AM July 13, 2009

IF you do google "Fighting Cock", make sure you do it at a work computer in a very public area for best results.

Steven Leckart

#15 – 9:10 AM July 13, 2009

@Lovemoose: Joel is now eligible to enter.

ogvor

#17 – 4:09 PM July 15, 2009

I'm stupid. I made this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXPQ4V7sNYg

corrine

#18 – 8:46 AM July 21, 2009

I'm still working, please don't give this away yet!

Steven Leckart

#19 – 8:29 AM July 28, 2009

@ogvor: AWESOME!

@corrine: you have one more week!

seanjjordan

#20 – 9:45 AM July 28, 2009

I want in on this action too... August 7th is the deadline, right? :-)

Steven Leckart

#21 – 12:29 PM July 28, 2009

Yes. August 7th.

igpajo

#22 – 8:31 AM August 10, 2009

"Never let a child swallow the bullet."
Now that's sound advice.

Mark Setser

#23 – 3:29 PM August 10, 2009

Is it as deadly as asian bird flu?

Anonymous Anonymous

#24 – 5:59 PM August 10, 2009

so who won? or can i still fight for this glorious thing. obvs i'm going to give it to my 5 year old niece and let her eat all the bullets

Kelly & Colleen

#25 – 7:39 PM August 11, 2009

Entry: This is a music video with song lyrics rewritten to Sinatra's Come Fly with Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM9GIX-JBis

misterfricative

#26 – 9:59 PM August 11, 2009

I'm uploading to youtube *now* -- just wanted to let you know before the deadline. I'll send the link as soon as the thing has finished processing.....

misterfricative

#27 – 10:13 PM August 11, 2009

Right. Here you go then. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb2EOK_s9yU

Be gentle with me -- I only heard about this a few hours ago. I had to get up specially early to do the video and everything. I mean, I really suffer for my art -- and now you can too. Ho ho.

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