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Ambassador Magma (マグマ大使 - Maguma Taishi) is the title superhero of a manga and tokusatsu TV series created by famous mangaka Osamu Tezuka. The TV series, produced by P Productions, aired on Fuji TV from July 4 1966 (The Beatles had performed in Tokyo that exact same night) to September 25, 1967, with a total of 52 episodes. It is the first color tokusatsu TV series in Japan, beating Ultraman
to the airwaves by 6 days.

Basic plot

The alien invader Goa plots to conquer the Earth. He first warns the Murakami family (father Atsushi, mother Tomoko and son Mamoru) of their invasion, and demonstrates his powers by transporting them to a prehistoric jungle and destroying a Giant Dinosaur (in reality, Agon, the title monster of a serialized Godzilla-like TV movie.) before their very eyes. But they will not agree to surrender to Goa, so hope comes in the form of Magma, an armored, golden giant with long hair and antennas. He and his human-sized wife Mol, both created by the wizard Earth (who sure enough lives deep beneath the Earth), are sent to defend our world against Goa. They befriend Atsushi and Mamoru, the latter has Magma emotionally touched, as he wanted to have a child with his wife Mol, so Earth creates a duplicate of Mamoru, named Gam (who wears a helmet with antennas). Earth gives Mamoru a whistle, with which he can call Gam (when blown once), Mol (when blown twice) and Magma (when blown thrice) in times of crisis. So when Goa unleashes his various daikaiju, chances are, Magma, Mol and Gam will fly to the rescue.

Ambassador Magma

Ambassador Magma, despite his robot-like appearance, is not a robot, but actually, a living giant forged from gold. In fact, true to his original manga appearance, in the series pilot opening, the actor playing Magma (Tetsuya Uozumi) wore gold make-up on his face. There were difficulties, though, like the actor's face turning beet-red, drowning out the gold makeup. The easy solution: Uozumi wore a golden human-like mask.

Magma, just like his human-sized wife and son Mol and Gam, transforms into a giant rocketship. In fact, he is one of the earliest transforming robots, even before the anime super robot, Brave Raideen, who set the standard for the genre.

He also shoots rockets out of a panel located in his chest, and shoots laser beams from his antennas.

More about the US version (The Space Giants)

Space Giants is the English title of this series. The show is most notable for its humanoid robot heroes who responded to crises by transforming into rockets to combat a wide variety of dinosaur-like space monsters and ninja-like villains called lugomen who melted into green slime when struck by energy rays.

The main conflict of the story involved a space villain named Rodak who continually tried to dominate Earth by sending a new dinosaur-like monster from deep space to wreak havok on the greater Tokyo area. The stories were generally resolved in four episodes, much like Doctor Who, and a new monster would be found by Rodak to begin another four part struggle. Rodak's efforts were opposed by the an ancient white-bearded wizard named Methusan (sometimes called Methuselah), aided by a trio of humanoid robots that were capable of changing from humanoid form into rocket form. The human interest in the story was a family of three: a boy named Miko, his mother Tomoko, and his journalist father Ito Mura. The family became involved in the story due to the villain Rodak's desire to publish news of his presence to world media. The Mura family found themselves continually caught in the crossfire of monster attacks and harried by lugomen. A major sub-plot in the series developed when Miko's mother was kidnapped by lugomen and held in uncertain conditions for a number of episodes.

In the first episodes, the robot team were a duo consisting of a 50-foot gold robot aptly named Goldar and his companion, a silver-clad humanoid female named Silvar. It's implied they were created by the wizard Methusan. Early in the series, the wizard Methusan completed the team to mirror the Mura family by creating a humanoid rocket-boy named Gam in the image of Miko Mura, complete with his trademark red-and-white sweater vest. All members of the robot team were capable of transforming rockets identified respectively by gold, silver, and red-and-white color schemes. Each had bulb-tipped antennae protruding from their heads, capable of discharging directed blasts of gamma rays. Goldar alone is capable of firing missiles from his chest cavity. A regularly featured plot device was Miko's ability to summon the robots by blowing a special high-frequency whistle - one blast to summon Gam, two blasts to summon Silvar, and three blasts to summon Goldar.

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Ambassador Magma

More about the US version (The Space Giants)

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