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I'm trying to figure out the name an old anime movie I watched as a child, most likely late 80s - early 90s. It featured a giant robot, which consisted of separate parts with a pilot in each, and they combined to form the complete robot. It sounds kinda like Voltron but I'm pretty sure it wasn't, maybe a knock-off or something. The head had horns, which seemed to go out horizontally from the base and then turned upwards, or there was a wide base and the horns went up on either side of the head.

I seem to remember the parts being launched from a base and I think the plot involved the head crashing or otherwise being separated from the body. I haven't even thought about this movie for a very long time so I may be remembering some details wrong, but if anything else comes to me I'll edit it in.

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  • This sounds a lot like the conceit of the "Metal Hourlant" of the Heavy Metal live action series on SyFy -- except that was after 2010s, live action, and the head was from a metal planet, not a robot...
    – Zeiss Ikon
    Commented Jan 29, 2021 at 14:42
  • sounds like you are describing the head of Galactus but I doubt there was ever an iteration where what you are remembering happened with that character.
    – NKCampbell
    Commented Jan 29, 2021 at 14:49

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The anime I was looking for seems to be Force Five: Gaiking (although it seems to have other names).

From wiki:

A mecha defender robot consisting of three separate components: the Great Space Dragon's head, an arm unit, and a leg unit (the arm and leg units are stored inside the Great Space Dragon and exit from a gateway located below the Dragon's head). These three launch from the Great Space Dragon and combine, while in flight, to form Gaiking. The Great Space Dragon's head forms Gaiking's core (i.e., chest and back) and contains Gaiking's own head. Gaiking is operated by baseball star Sanshiro Tsuwabuki ("Aries Astonopolous" in English and "Brando Drummond" in Spanish).

Now that I read that description I remember the baseball star being featured prominently, with one scene in particular showing him pitching balls that disappear.

Gaiking

In the picture above you can see the distinctive horns.

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