Anybody collect Vinyl Kaiju/Japanese Sofubi?

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Originally Posted by B-Lister

I like Bandai vinyl, but the vintage stuff has a charm to it in its simplistic, often inaccurate sculpting. I picked up a Bullmark reissue of the original Marusan Godzilla, just for its vintage charm.

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I really like this, very nice vintage pick-up.

One of my favorites too. I have a mini version of this.

Nice paints on your Hedorah, B-Lister. I got my Y-MSF Glowie version painted by the KaijuZoo in '06.

https://i.imgur.com/UELPry3.jpg

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Originally Posted by Mikey

Back in the day I bought a new (at the time) 1991 Bandai Mecha-Kong from my local comic guy.

Was totally in love with it for years afterward but eventually had to sell it to pay some bills.

Man, I loved that thing :)

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Bandai did a really nice job on Mechani-Kong. I just wish they would have included his Bomb Belt.

https://i.imgur.com/VZlRGsa.jpg

Raymundo came to the rescue years later. :smile:

https://i.imgur.com/lUxpG9b.jpg

Hedorah still gives me the creeps.

That Bullmark Godzilla reissue hits all the right buttons for me.

Blis, at the gamestop at trinity point in washington pa they had a large vinyl figure of a Kamen Rider. not sure if it's still there but i saw it saw for a long while.

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Originally Posted by powersthatbe

Blis, at the gamestop at trinity point in washington pa they had a large vinyl figure of a Kamen Rider. not sure if it's still there but i saw it saw for a long while.

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Yeah, Saw thise. They're nice, but not for me.

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Originally Posted by PNGwynne

Hedorah still gives me the creeps.

That Bullmark Godzilla reissue hits all the right buttons for me.

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"Reissue" isn't quite appropriate...it uses the same tooling and vinyl as the original Marusan, because Marusan went under, and Bullmark acquired the tooling. The figure is still vintage, just a year or two later than the Marusan. There have been many reuses of the tooling since (by both Bullmark, and later a new iteration of Marusan), but this is still a vintage piece from the early days of Godzilla vinyl.

My friend in Japan just sold me these three Marugacha (small vinyl sofubi sold in gacha capsules).

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Thanks for the clarification. I don't collect these and know nothing about the collecting niche except the term "sofubi". And the only ones I have are The Penguin and some Henshin Cyborg reissues.

Sofubi by the way is a japanization of 'sofvi' or soft vinyl.