herbiehancock

Well, damn. My New Years resolutions have totally fallen by the wayside. I guess that's how it usually goes. I didn't realize it had been almost 4 months since my last post! I even have a lot more apes/monkeys to write about! ------------------ Anyway, thought I would at least attempt to start this back up (yet again) with a little update on my latest stuff. I've been really into these Marusan original sculpts lately. Crude, relatively inexpensive patchi kaiju that are just fun. They remind me the most of those random drug store toys you'd get as a kid and make up the story for. Marusan made many of these in the late 90s, I guess before the "boom" that kaiju/Japanese vinyl toys re-experienced a few years later. I won a great lot for cheap on Yahoo Japan recently, so eventually I'll be writing about them I'm sure. I haven't bought much at all lately, and these could probably be the last again for awhile. (Don't worry... I still have a lot to wr...

MechaGonira (メカゴニラ) by Amapro (アマプロ) is just a little different than the other gorilla toys I have written about so far. What we have here is essentially a mashup of King Kong and a lesser known monster named Garuban. This toy is actually based on a diecast toy from the 1970s. You can see the toy here to the right. I'm not entirely sure what company produced this toy... or what the toy is even called, but it shares a body with the diecast Garuban figure made by the same company. Since the head is attached only via magnet, I guess it was very easy to somply sculpt a new plastic head for the existing metallic bodies. Fast forward to today, and you have Amapro creating a vinyl toy paying homage to this obscure little toy here. Header //2 out of 5//: I like the fact that this header is bigger than would normally be on this size figure. I also like the artwork found on the front... the style is immediately recognizable. But the header is a generic header for Amapro apparently, and the n...