Gargamel has released a rival sculpt to its vinyl version of the classic microman; Acroyear. This ball-handed nemesis of Microman will be released at Wonderfest 2008 along side a new smoke-grey version of the Microman.
Gamera is Toygraph’s latest racer and drives a number 99 pink racer. Wonder Festival Winter 2008 release Toygraph
When the proto’s showed up in March’s Hyperhobby, it was to be sure that they would be pretty amazing. To see them in their full-color glory is even better. When the first set of Walders and Invaders started coming in, they were certainly something people sought, but who could have imagined that Charactics would have taken the mini concept a step further with the walder subforms with guts. Then who you have predicted guts AND inner heads on these ones?!?! This set is apparently a Wonderfest 2008 exclusive; hopefully the line-bums won’t get all of them and leave a few for us poor souls.
Also noteworthy is another set of the Walder subforms in an untraditional colorscheme.
Secret Base took us all by surprise with this new release of the “Night Shadow” Mad Mantis. It has been well over a year since the last release of the Mad Mantis sculpt, so a lot of the die-hard Secret Base collectors (myself included) are very excited to finally add another wacky two-headed creature to their collections. From the looks of this figure the body is made of clear vinyl and painted from the inside out, a similar paint technique used on the 13th Skull Bees. And the best part is… it glows!! I’m hopeful that the success of this release will bring many more Mad Mantises to us in the near future.
Dream Rocket has produced a clear unpainted Marnon as a Kaiju-Taro exclusive.
Priced at 4800 yen plus shipping.
7.6 inches in height.
KT Marnon
With silver and pink, this Dokuro-Taro rumbles onto the scene with Lulubell’s signature colors. Rumble Monsters production with only 30 pieces released. Height 4 inches. $35.00: LuLubell
Sneak pics of the new figure by Longneck, and goes by the name ‘Ikapotsu-kun’ . Appears to be a modified version of Death-menargo, although theres no clue to the scale. Could possibly be smaller as the company says ‘When this grows up, it becomes Menago.’
It is scheduled to be sold at [hobikon], daybreak of 4/6 .”
On February 1, the Japanese toy company Real x Head opened their new shop in the Tokyo suburb of Aoto. To mark this occasion, a new sculpt was introduced: mohikan hone borg. Drawing from the style of traditional Noh theatre masks, this figure comes with an interchangeable hand attachment and this first release is a silver vinyl with gold spray. Hone Borg is a great new addition to the Real x Head lineup of figures and is sure to be the first of many new exciting releases we see from RxH this year.
Exohead and Japanese E-tailer A.dore will be releasing a Galtan + t-shirt set on February 14. Exohead has posted a teaser or two on their site but there’s no real details about the sale as of yet.
Artist and friend of kaiju, Coop, has posted a huge amount of photos of his kaiju collection. In his post on Positive Ape, he talks about how collecting this stuff pre-internet was so tricky. Not only did he have to scour stores to find them, but without the internet, there was no real resource to identify what he was missing. It’s indeed really hard to think about doing this as most collecting is 100% internet-based now.
Positive Ape:
http://positiveapeindex.blogspot.com/
Coop’s toys on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/coop666…