herbiehancock

I previously wrote about the Matango ( マタンゴ) by M1Go (Ｍ１号) here about a year ago. I just wanted to show off a new member of the fungal family I received from a boardmember on skullbrain ! I pulled my old category scores from the previous Matango entry and applied them here... then elaborated on the Hawaii paint. I've also added a bit about the headers for these toys, since I did not do so the first time around. And, just for shits and giggles, pictured here is a poster from the movie! Header //4.5 out of 5//: No complaints here. I really like the hand drawn monsters and typeface on here. It advertises for the relatively new company (to the older companies like Bullmark or Marusan for instance) and other products while still feeling vintagey. I would have liked it if it were slightly larger, and if it didn't seem as generic as it does. For someone like me (a non-Japanese reader!), this header would be a little better if it highlighted the fact it was for Matango. As it is now,...

I have only done my little reviews in the past on action figures... with articulation and weapons and such... so I have not been exactly sure how to do reviews of kaiju figures since they are so different. It is all subjective, of course, but I think kaiju is collected for different reasons. Maybe not... Either way, here we have the M1 sculpt of the Matango monster from the Toho film Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People . I have stated before that this movie was underwhelming to me, but it honestly was not terrible. It was one of those situations where you go into something with certain expectations, and when that something is totally different it feels like a let down. This was an intelligent horror film, honestly (I'll admit when I am wrong!) but I had gone in expecting a campy monster flick, which it is not. Well, it is like the crew of Gilligan's island arguing and killing one another over food and sex.... Regardless, the mushroom monsters in the film are very cool despit...