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I just wrote about Cyclomanion ( サイクロマニヨン ) by Real Head ( リアルヘッド ) just yesterday , but I had to show off the other one in the family, right? This particular one is similar in color to many other colorways released by Real Head that people have dubbed Gold Mist. I'm not sure if Gold Mist is an official name or not. You can all (I think) of the RxH Gold Mist releases here: (photo stolen from meczilla on skullbrain. click on the link for meczilla's flickr) I even spy Cyclomanion in there! Header //3 out of 5//: Sculpt //4.25 out of 5//: Paint //4.5 out of 5//: I feel the same about pretty much everything on these two different Cyclomanions except for the paint. While I really like the Gold Mist color scheme, I think with this particular sculpt, the rubbed paint application of the gold one comes off a little better in showing off the strengths. This figure appears to be made of a flesh colored vinyl with the bronzey paint applied. It is a nice, subtle hue and a slight metal...

There are some lines of toys I have just never acquired the taste for despite their high demand. But sometimes these companies release that one toy that finds a way into my niche little collection. Cyclomanion ( サイクロマニヨン ) by Real Head ( リアルヘッド ) is that toy. Ever since I was a kid, I have been a fan of gorilla themed toys. I hadn't had many apes in recent years outside random figures like a talking Optimus Primal from the Beast Wars cartoon. Lately I have been replenishing my ape collection with Japanese vinyl. They are mostly older toys, but Real Head released this figure, and it just fit in with the other apes living in my house. I'm not sure exactly, but it was speculated on skullbrain that Cyclomanion was Real Head's take on the patchi kaiju image pictured to the right here. Patchi kaiju, or fake kaiju essentially, were cheap little trading cards that were drawn, painted, etc. in Japan in the 70s that often borrowed elements of certain popular monsters at the time a...

My first real custom paint job! I am by no means a Real Head (リアルヘッド) fan... in fact the set I bought of unpainted figures was my first figures from the line outside of one figure what was part of this year's Super7 Halloween set. (and my Super7 Halloween set has since been sold off) Here is the set: Mutant Chaos on the left, Jinja-R next (which I did not get as it was a random drawing), Akrokaiser with the big head, and Mutant Evil on the right with the antennae. They honestly still don't do anything for me outside of perhaps the Chaos. Perhaps. Anyway, I busted out the hairdryer and my concentration face and mixed them all up because ultimately I wanted a Chaosman to customize. Here's what I came up with: The Chaosman: (Mutant Chaos head on Mutant Evil body) Caveman Akro: (Akrokaiser head on Mutant Chaos body and Mutant Evil right arm) Cell Evil: (Mutant Evil head on Akrokaiser body and "damaged" Chaos right arm) I hope to actually paint this one to look like C...