Science Ninja Team Gatchaman is a 5-member superhero team which comprises the main characters in several Japanese anime created by Tatsuo Yoshida and originally produced in Japan by Tatsunoko Productions and later adapted into several English-language versions. It is also known by the abbreviated name Gatchaman . The original series, produced in 1972, was eponymously named Kagaku ninja tai Gatchaman and is most well-known to the English-speaking world as the adaptation titled Battle of the Planets (or alternately G-Force , not to be confused with the subsequent 1980's English adaptation of Gatchaman , known as G-Force: Guardians of Space ).

Most of the team were in their late-teens, apart from Jinpei who was about eleven. They included: Ken Washio , the team leader; Joe Asakura , his second-in-command;Jun , the team's electronics and demolitions expert; Jinpei , the youngest and reconnaissance expert; and Ryu Nakanishi , the ship's pilot.

They also used various signature weapons and mecha style vehicles which each had a more mundane looking disguised form. To change modes, each member is equipped with a special wrist device that, aside from being a communicator and tracking device, enabled the change when the proper gesture and voice command, "Bird Go!", is given. Their vehicles are docked in the team's main vehicle, the GodPhoenix, a supersonic plane capable of underwater travel and minor space flight as necessary.

This boxset comes with a giant 305mm Classic God Phoenix