Contest: Win My Fighting Cock-Bot

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

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.

1. [seanjjordan]

   I want in on this action too… August 7th is the deadline, right?

2. [J McArthur]

   Here’s my entry. Space Cock rocks!

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

3. [Brandon West]

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

4. [dculberson]

   I wish I had walkable feet for advancing.

5. [greenglyph]

   What’s the deadline?

6. [Steven Leckart]

   @Brandon:

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

7. [john]

   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…

8. [Mark Setser]

   Is it as deadly as asian bird flu?

9. [Enochrewt]

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

10. [misterfricative]

    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…..

11. [misterfricative]

    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.

12. [Joel Johnson]

    OMG I WANT THIS

13. [Steven Leckart]

    @Cantley: Great find.

14. [Steven Leckart]

    @Lovemoose: Joel is now eligible to enter.

15. [JHop]

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

16. [igpajo]

    “Never let a child swallow the bullet.”
    Now that’s sound advice.

17. [lovemoose]

    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.

18. [Anonymous]

    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

19. [Charles]

    I got to say… that is one impressive cock

20. [Cantley]

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

21. [GreyTheory]

    “We can rebuild him. We have the McNuggets.”

22. [Steven Leckart]

    Yes. August 7th.

23. [Steven Leckart]

    @ogvor: AWESOME!

    @corrine: you have one more week!

24. [Steven Leckart]

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/steveevets/3716934965/in/pool-boingboinggadgets

    keep ‘em coming, folks…

25. [ogvor]

    I’m stupid. I made this.

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

26. [corrine]

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

27. [Kelly & Colleen]

    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