Betakong by Sunguts
Another gorilla! Yay!! This little guy's name is Betakong (ベタコング) from the Beta Kaiju Series (ベタ怪獣シリーズ). This one brought to you by the good folks at Sunguts (サンガッツ). Actually, Sunguts is one person from what I understand, who sculpts a wide variety of characters from Gamera and Godzilla to his beta series like this or manga characters created by Shigeru Mizuki . All in all, they are solid, quirky little sculpts that are pretty distinguishable from other toylines out there. I'll have another Sunguts figure that is sort of gorilla related that I will write about soon... a caveman! Although I believe the caveman is from a Mizuki character. This toy is what appears to be another take on the classic King Kong bootleg, but I suppose it could be a random gorilla too. On an aside, I've decided to ditch the number scoring, as it was beginning to feel sort of arbitrary to me. I still want to keep the categories, however. Header Not a bad header, but not a fantastic one by any me...