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  1. vintagevinyl

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    wow . those look great ! you dont know how many times i just about started collecting those guys . i even put bids on the mummy and lion man but lost . there are a few people on this board who i know have tiger mask vinyls . any idea how many got made into giant size ? quite a few were made into the 6 in. versions . love the fact that they made a ring for these guys to fight in .
     
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    according to the info page that onibaba posted, there are 6 giant size vinyls: 2 versions of tigermask, golden maks, the lion mask, the red death mask and rulers of the tiger's cave

    i have two of the regular 12" vinyls... i got them back in 03-04, when i started collecting vintage vinyls (yeah i'm still a newbie)

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  3. brianflynn

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    Subt, are you sure those are the giants? they look like the normal 12" versions. The ginats I saw were 15"+. I was lucky enough once to see the entire set of six, still in bags with sashes!
     
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    brian,
    yes, the ones i have are the regular versions... (man i wish i have any gof the giant ones)
    i didn't mean to say that those were the giant size vinyls. i guess i should've specified that in my previous post. :oops:

    sorry if my post was confusing!
    (i edited my previous post btw)
     
  5. vintagevinyl

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    this may be my bad . i think i may have called this a giant size . i remember a friend a long time ago descibing a giant size version of the red wrestler you have . he told me that it had vinyl caps that went over the horns . should have thought maybe that the standard size would be made the same way .
     
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    Instead of collecting all the figures, I opted for this Nakajima catalog/poster. Now I at least have a photo of them all and it does not take up much space. Sorry, I do not have access to my camera so I had to scan it in sections. The best listing of all the Tiger Mask vinyls I have seen is in the Sofubi Figure Whole Catalog 2000 (ISBN4-415-09321-3).

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  7. Frank Kozik

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    I have the skeleton guy. bought it in Tokyo years ago. one of my fav old figures.
     
  8. pickleloaf

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    yea i just bought a pretty dirty one on yahoo - so hopefully it will clean up some.

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  9. pickleloaf

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    Just got these in!


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  10. vintagevinyl

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    thats a great haul ! the first vinyl ( fish guy ) is another one im going to have to get one day .
     
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    Do you think that Skeleton guy inspired the RxH RyusieNinja? They both have stars on their head.
     
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    Yea, he's from Kinnikuman.
     
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    oh yeah ! thanks for the reminder . kept trying to think where i had seen this guy before . was this show an early 80s cartoon ? there was an updated version of it in the U.S not that long ago i think .
     
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    his name is sunshine and he is one of the biggest a-holes in the kinnikuman story

    he has this one move where his chest opens up to reveal rollers where he grabs opponents and crushes them through to the back
     
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    [​IMG] just had to find the right book . sure noticed a couple of them look very similar to tiger mask wrestlers .
     
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    great collection pickle....and like vintage said....all i got is envy too.....
     
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    Wow -- Never seen those Kinnikuman vinyls. I guess I never really looked, but I figured they had to be out there. Very, very cool.
     
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    What sort of date are we talking for those Kinikuman vinyls? They new, vintage, a few years old?
     
  20. vintagevinyl

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    depends on what you think of vintage . the year in the book shows 1982 .
     
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    i just won a purty one

    it's gonna be a little ouchy on the wallet, but i've been looking for this for awhile

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    nice pick up, thats a great figure!

    its interesting that they made a few slightly different versions of this figure. the one i have has the right hand open, and the left is a fist, opposite of yours. ive also seen photos of a version with both hands making fists.

    weird!
     
  23. pickleloaf

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    any idea where this one comes from? i dont think it is nakajima made, but i could definitely be wrong

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    skull star my only tiger mask bad guy :lol:
     
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    That kanji and hiragana is Tiger Mask's creators names. Anything on the other foot?
     

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