Mecha and Monsters from Mechander Robo

The following is a list of the many mecha and monsters that appeared in the 1977 anime series *Combining Squadron Mechander Robo*.

## Combining Squadron

### King Diamond

* **King Diamond**: Length: 1,200 meters. Weight: 53,000 tons. At the beginning of the series it disguises itself as a baseball stadium. It was used to house Mechander Robo and various Combining Squadron vehicles. Thanks to being run on oil it was not detectable by Omega Missiles. Powers include levitation, hidden cannons, machine gun turrets, and missile launchers. It was heavily damaged during a Konguistar assault in episode 14 and had to be reconstructed.
* **New King Diamond**: A new design for the King Diamond that first appeared in episode 15 with better radar and same basic weapons and now with four red lasers and a torpedo launcher on the bridge. It was also capable of swimming.

### Mechander Planes

* **Mechander Plane 1**: Length: 20 meters. Weight: 2.8 tons. Flight Speed: Mach 5. Weapons include twin nose guns and a missile at the base of each wing.
* **Mechander Plane 2**: Length: 9 meters. Weight: 1.8 tons. Flight Speed: Mach 3. Weapons include twin nose guns and twin missiles from the underside compartment.
* **Mechander Plane 3**: Length: 10 meters. Weight: 1.5 tons. Flight Speed: Mach 3. Weapons include twin nose guns and a missile from each side of the cockpit.
* **Mechander Max**: Length: 30 meters. Weight: 6.1 tons. Flight Speed: Mach 5. Weapons include the Bull Thunder (a bull missile composed of three components and formed a large explosion), it could use the nose guns of plane 1, it was capable of swimming, and it used the Mechander Cross to control Mechander Robo.

### Trycars

* **Trycar F1**: Could move up to 350 kilometers per hour.
* **Trycar GT2**: Could move up to 300 kilometers per hour.
* **Trycar B3**: Could move up to 300 kilometers per hour.
* **Trycar Max**: Length: 30 meters. Weight: 6.1 tons. It was armed with dog shaped torpedoes from the sides called Shepherds, could jump high into the air, and like Mechander Max could Mechander Cross to control Mechander Robo.

### Mechander Robo

* **Height**: 120 meters
* **Weight**: 32 tons
* **Power Source**: Nuclear
* **Abilities**:
	+ Flight
	+ Swimming
	+ Ankle Blades: A pair of sharp yellow blades on each ankle.
	+ Ear Energy Bolts: A green energy bolts from each antenna-like ear.
	+ Ear Nunchucks: Can detach the ears and connect them via electricity to use as a set on nunchucks.
	+ Mechander Rocket Guns: A 5-tube rapid fire rocket pod in each hand that is activated by flipping it's hands.
	+ Shark Missiles: Mechander Robo can launch a homing shark-like missile from each foot. Can be enhanced by remora-like torpedoes from the knees.
	+ Spiked Shields: A pair of spiked round shields on its arms that be used as melee weapons or combine to be used as a throwing weapon.
	+ Sword: A sword stored in the right wrist.
	+ Mechander Flame: Four very powerful flamethrowers on the chest.

### Other Vehicles

* **Orange Hovercraft**: Used in episode 6 and was armed with three cannons on each side.
* **Recon VTOL**: Used by Mika in episodes 9 and 20 and was armed with a machine gun on each side of the cockpit.
* **Red Submarine**: Used by Yuta in episode 14 to locate Mukadeck.

## Konguistar Army

### Main Forces

* **Emperor Hedron**: A being composed of pollution from the Ganymede Star in the Orion Galaxy. While usually portrayed as a blob with tentacles and a single eye in the center in the final episode his real form resembles a purple brain with snail-like eyes and a dog tongue. He died from the Ganymede Star restoring itself from pollution after converting the inhabitants into the Konguistar Army and sending them to the Milky Way Galaxy. Powers include hypnosis, telepathy, electric bolts from the eyes, and flight.
* **Aerial Fortress City:** The main base of the Konguistar Army and it had a hundred years worth of supplies. It flight capabilities were extraordinary as it could reach Earth from the Orion Galaxy in only fifteen years. It could make complex calculations by an AI computer called Computer Gamma and for combat it was armed with underside orange laser guns,
* **Kongistar Soldier**: Ganymede denizens that were converted by Hedron via hypnosis and cyborg conversion. Powers include a human disguise, a green laser pistol, and a flying bike with red laser gun on the cockpit.
* **Kogata Saucer**: The primary invasion forces of the Knguistar Army and were piloted by the Hedrobots. They were armed with a green laser under the cockpit and one underside homing bomb held by twin claws.
* **Shesei Satellite**: Seven satellites in Earth's orbit used to fire Omega Missiles. Four of these can merge to form Kuragera.
* **Omega Missile**: Giant missiles fired from various Konguistar locations that home in on nuclear weaponry.
* **Hedrobot**: Appeared in episodes 4, 7, 21, 24, 27, and 34. They were armed with dual arm missile launchers and a trunk flamethrower.
* **Flagship**: Appeared in episodes 21, 23, and 24. Powers include flight, three yellow laser guns in each wing, and underside homing bombs.

### Lesser Machines

* **Radar Buoy**: Appeared in episodes 4 and 13 to detect military activity across the Pacific Ocean.
* **Homing Shuriken Turret**: Appeared in episode 5.
* **Dome Base**: Appeared in episode 5 armed with missile launchers along top, lsaer turrets along center, and internal cannons.
* **Whirlpool Machine**: Appeared in episode 5 and was composed of two underwater turbines.
* **Recon Saucer**: Appeared in episode 7 and were armed with an underside orange laser.
* **Manta Ray Plane**: Appeared in episode 8 and was used by Medusa for reconnaissance. It was armed with missiles under the cockpit.
* **Carrier Saucer**: Appeared in episodes 8 and 12 and could fire orange lasers from the hull.
* **Whirlpool Mines**: Appeared in episode 11.
* **Magma Train**: Appeared in episode 14. They were heat resistant drill missiles designed to destroy a planet's crust by disrupting tectonic activity.

### Battle Mechbeast

* **Kumander**: Appear in episodes 1 and 13. Powers include swimming, flight, sharp claws on the hands and feet, a rainbow mouth tractor beam, emitting hurricane winds from the wings, and a sharp beak
* **Shinkiller**: Appears in episode 2. Powers include flight, pink lasers from the mouth grill, and spawning holograms from the back. Reappears in Super Robot Wars Compact 3.
* **Hoden Lenza**: Appears in episodes 3 and 16. Powers include flight, summoning lightning, an energy beam from the torso, green magnetic waves from the hands, red electric bolts from the eyes, and a detachable head. In its second appearance the torso laser is electric and fire yellow lasers from the eyes instead of electric bolts.
* **King Conger**: Appears in episodes 4 and 13. Powers include a rainbow tractor beam from the mouth, six rapid fire missile launchers hidden in each pectoral, and yellow eye lasers.
* **Terrano Donger**: Appears in episode 4. Its only known power is flight.
* **Gijudder**: Appears in episodes 5 and 13. Powers include a machine gun in each shoulder wheel, in the neck, each hand, and each sole, abdomen missiles, flight, yellow eye lasers, hand flamethrowers, and rolling into a fire ball.
* **Newdom**: Appears in episodes 6, 13, and 16. Powers include flight and six head tentacles each armed with six flamethrowers and a rocket for each tip. In its third appearance the flamethrowers are replaced with missile launchers, could release chains from the scalp, and emitted mouth flames.
* **Tokasuda**: Appears in episodes 7 and 16. Powers include swimming, flight, green mouth acid, and a clubbed tail. In its second appearance it could emit flames from the eyes.
* **Mukadera**: Appear in episode 8. Powers include a pair of extendable scythe arms, spiked wheels, a pair of scythe blades on the tail, and white eye lasers.
* **Oneuda**: Appears in episodes 9 and 20. Powers include flight, swimming, seven extendable head tentacles with a machine gun hidden in the tip, mouth rectangular missiles, and a retractable mace tail with a spiked missile.
* **Handley Robot**: Appears in episodes 10 and 20. Powers include flight, reformation, and clawed launchable tentacles designed for restriction and electric shocks.
* **Gear Robot**: Appears in episode 11 and 20. Powers include a recon plane disguise, a saucer mode for flight, a pair of clamps, and crushing gears for hands and the back. Reappears in Super Robot Wars Compact 3.
	+ **New Gear Robot**: Appears in episode 14. Powers include flight, a sharp gear on each wrist, and rolling into a wheel form.
* **Big Hurricane**: Appears in episode 12. Powers include spawning a hurricane, flight, constricting back tentacles, mouth flames, and blades legs.
* **Mukadeck**: Appears in episode 14. Powers include heat resistance, spewing Magma Trains, swimming, and using its body to constrict enemies.
* **Kaen Snake**: Appears in episode 15. Powers include flight, a pair of large fangs, mouth flames, turning into a base armed with two orange laser turrets on the inside, constricting, and increasing its body temperature.
* **Kuragera**: Appears in episode 17. Powers include space flight, tentacles with spear tips, and lava spewing. Reappears in Super Robot Wars Compact 3.
* **Yakula**: Appears in episode 18. Powers include a truck form, flight, a circular saw along the front, and five hidden machine guns in the front.
* **Mecha Onihitode**: Appear in episodes 19 and 34. Powers include swimming, emitting acidic gas while underwater, eight drill legs, and stacking to form long tentacles.
* **The Rigger**: Appears in episode 21. Powers include flight, swimming, a turtle shell, six spear-like legs, yellow eye lasers, and regeneration.
* **Renketsura**: Appears in episode 22. Powers include swimming, a spinning spiked cone shell for the nose, spawning crab robots armed with torpedoes fired from the claws and can combine together to form a centipedel, flight, a torpedo launcher on each side of the hull, and emitting an EMP wave.
* **Mecha Tiger Shark**: Appear in episode 23. Powers include swimming, a drill for a head, high jumping, a pair of missile launchers on the top at the base of the dorsal fin, and combining to become Dragon Driller.
	+ **Dragon Driller**: Appears in episode 23. Powers include swimming, a whip tail, spawning drills from the body, and three drill fingers on each hand and both fangs. Reappears in Super Robot Wars Compact 3.
* **Mecha Kaen Ryu**: Appears in episodes 24 and 28. Powers include flight, mouth flames, four claws for each hand, and sharp teeth.
* **Kurageraiza**: Appears in episode 25. Powers include ten tentacles for constriction and flight.
* **Kamaittachi**: Appears in episode 26. Powers include flight even in space and a pair of orange bladed arms.
* **Great Robo**: Appears in episodes 27 and 34. Powers include flight, a forehead laser, a missile launcher in each arm behind the hands, and swimming. Reappears in Super Robot Wars Compact 3.
* **Mecha Gigi**: Appears in episode 34. Powers include flight, hurricane winds from the wings, sharp talons, mouth flames, and a torso heat ray.
* **Chameleon Robo**: Appear in episode 34. Powers include flight
* **Scorpion Robot**: Appears in episode 34. Powers include scorpion claws for hands and on the tail and white eye lasers.

## Earth Defense Force Vehicles

* **White Jet Fighter**: Armed with two missiles under each wing and a machine gun on each side of the cockpit.
* **Black Submarine**: Used for storage of assault boats.
* **Gray Battleship**: Armed with four missile launchers on the deck and six double barreled cannons.
* **Green Bomber Plane**: Armed with carpet bombs.
* **Long Helicopter**: Used by paramedics and cargo transporters, they were usually gray or orange.
* **Brown Tank**: Armed with a single cannon.
* **Green Rocket Propelled Cargo Plane**: Used for super sonic flight.
* **Brown Jeep**: Used for transporting rescued hostages.