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New year, new Brog. I start my 2011-Brog-year with my darling No.1.
Rockbat. The freaky cat.

This time I want show you some detailed views of the Aoshima Rockbat
plastic model kit. I think I’ll never glue this kit together, because I ended
my modelbuilding career with 14.  Better keep it MIB ;-)

There are a few Rockbat & Blazer model kits, to be precise 4.
Two big ones from Aoshima and 2 smaller ones from another brand.

The box is really nice. Rockbat is posing like superman.
OK, the scarf around Rockbat’s neck looks a bit strange. Parlez-vous français?

Inside the box: Construction manual, catalog, “guarantee” note & the plasitc kit packed in 3 bags.

This is the catalog, showing two  other cool kits. Blazer and Curricular Machine.

Here is the construction manual. Looks simple…maybe I try to build the kit.
Or keep it MIB?

A big and a smaller bag for the plastic parts.
In a separate bag you find a few stickers and 2 springs for Rockbat’s rocket-punch.

Now a few action features of this unusual Rockbat.
Adjustable legs, secret chest-cover, special skateboard, axe, firing right fist…

…and instead of left fist. A spring loaded spaceship.

A spring loaded spaceship instead of a left fist!
WTF…I keep it MIB ;-)

Some more box details of the other kits.

More fotos etc in the BBS as usual.

cheers

This toy certainly deserves a higher quality photo, but I took it minutes before I had to leave for my flight overseas. Like some belated meeting with a long lost relative, I wanted to capture the moment. Savor it like an after school special. I wanted to spend some quality time with the end of the hunt, the man-child giddiness we know all too well. Sadly I had no such luxury. The terrible iphone photo had to suffice for two weeks. So I share my humble (sub par) bittersweet snapshot with you.

But why open ended? I suppose it has more to do with my known condition of needing minty boxes. One many of you will roll your collective eyes at. A reaction I (and my loved ones) certainly empathize with

I completed a circle of sorts when I finally got a Bullmark battery op Ultraman Leo. But it is sans box… *waits for collective gasp*

My standards for buying are one of those things that keeps me grounded, and sort of not in financial ruin, simply because the purchases are few and far between. Patience I have found to be my best friend in the insanity that we find ourselves in during the heights of bidding season.

Leo however, has a hold on me like no other, combining a visual presence with a extreme sense of personal nostalgia. The standard zenmai walker was and is certainly harder to find, and more of a personal grail, but something about the proportions of the Battery op, make it my favorite Japanese toy I own. Period.

The obsessive desire to find the perfect toy in the perfect box, is both a blessing and a pain in the ass. So I struggled when I saw this toy for sale by private owner… simply because it represented some sort of defeat , a lack of purity of focus on my part. But in the end, I could not pass it up, simply because the price was right and the toy, well the toy is magnificent.

This is in fact the first loose toy I have bought in the past 15 years, but at the end of the day, I have no regrets, and my zenmai has a big brother to keep him company… that is until I find that MIMB version.

That circle is still, yet to be closed. When that happens, you can bet your ass I am going to use HD def video to document it.

“Rubber encased tin” Blazer or “super cheap toy” how Mr.Alt said.
How unsexy. Isn’t there an “official” name for these kind of toys…like chogokin, sofubi, etc?

Well, to be honest…this little Bullmark Blazer IS really cheap.
But for a Rockbat & Blazer nerd like me…he’s a must-have.

Own one of these Blazer is enough…NO…better you have 12 of him ;-)

When this Bullmark cardboard with Blazers popped up on Yahoo I had
a mission: Win this auction!

Now I have to find one of these with Rockbats…  ;-)

More fotos in the BBS.

BTW…I think these Blazers are perfect to decorate the Christmas tree.