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Killer gokin case:

Ok, not really. It doesn’t move or anything. Still, very impressive looking. This life size Gundam is being assembled in Odaiba for the 30th Anniversary of Gundam, and apparently to garner support for the Olympics in Tokyo in 2016.

(photos from this site http://punynari.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/assembled-rx78-gundam-part-2/ – good photos of the Gundam, but beware of TEH MOE1111)

From a 1977 print add.

Seriously heavy die-cast beauty. A person could kill somebody with this thing.

These are my first Orguss toys… there’s something in the curvaceous Orguss designs that really lend themselves to vinyl that other harder-edged robots don’t necessarily have. The box is pure love as well, with some awesome art.

Per Erik’s request. Check out that ZEL Robot…!

Check out the strategically placed mole.

Messing around on a lazy Saturday morning before work… I’ve had a number of vinyl kaiju show up lately, along with more of my YHJ from last week and started messing around. The kaiju is Junker V from Wombat Toys.

Getter 3 and the Scopedog try to hold off Junker V while the civilians flee!

But it’s no use!

Can no one stand up to this terrible monster?!?

Look! The Goggle team has arrived to help with evacuation and stop the monster!

POW! Goggle Jet takes down Junker V after Goggle Dump gets trapped while saving civvies.

But no! The monster is back up!

We need Goggle V! Form up!

Goggle V online! Prepare for battle!

“Have at you!”

The day is saved!

I love this show. I love this show on LSD.. Bullmark mini sofubi goodness:

Kure Kure Takora (クレクレタコラ?, unofficial translation: “Gimme Gimme Octopus”) is a tokusatsu children’s comedy show from Japan. Produced by Toho Company Ltd., the show aired on Fuji TV and its subsidiaries from October 1, 1973 to September 27, 1974 with a total of 260 episodes. Kure Kure Takora—the main character of the show—wants everything he sees and says “Kure! Kure! (I want it! I want it!)” all the time. Each episode was absurd, strange, violent, surreal, indescribable, and ran exactly 2 minutes and 41 seconds.

So after a while of waiting I received the latest additions to my shrine of Blue Arcadia obsession. I got home from the post office and sat down to unwrap and expose my newest acquisitions with shaking hands. And as soon as my eyes fell upon them I had one of those “ummm…okay then” sort of moments. If you were to set these next to an Eidai Grip piece, it would be like standing a GA-01 next to a Jumbo Machinder Mazinger Z. Yeah, they’re tiny as hell, as these pics demonstrate (that’s a dime put in for scale)

That having been said they’re sweet as hell, I just love the funky, soft, off scale sculpts on them. A happy reminder of a time when these were sold as toys, not collectors statues or any such thing. Another neat detail I notice is how for each ship they have a different distinct card printed up, not like they just used the same background image for both ships (I’m assuming that the center section under where the bubble wold mount lists info on each ship)

Looking at the cards they were attached to I’d say these were sold stapled in rows on larger display boards (and yes I now have a burning desire to get a complete display of these). Until I stumbled on the auction for these I’ve never heard of these before. My hope is that they made other ships from the Harlock series in this set, maybe even some Mazone enemy vessels to fight with. One final note, I don’t recognize any makers marks, or notice any kind of logos anywhere on these, hopefully someone here recognizes something and can shed more light on these things.