Yamanaya has a four part series about Bullmark minis on their site: http://yamanaya.sakura.ne.jp/miniworld/index.html http://yamanaya.sakura.ne.jp/miniworld/02.html http://yamanaya.sakura.ne.jp/miniworld/03.html http://yamanaya.sakura.ne.jp/miniworld/04.html
Whole bunch of articles on Bullmark minis on the Robot Robot blog: http://www.robotrobot2.com/?cat=23
Came across this mini Saigo on Mandarake: https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order...ispAdult=0&soldOut=1&keyword=ブルマァク ミニ&lang=en I was recently watching Eiji Kaminaga's interview of Saburo Ishizuki and Ishizuki-san mentioned how some Bullmark minis had high defect rates when they were pulled from the molds. I wonder if Saigo was one of these. Also, out of stock, but so expensive: https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order...ref=list&dispAdult=0&keyword=ブルマァク ミニ&lang=en
Beautiful group Dave. I really like the Taro with the gold paint, really cool look. Ill have to track one down.
Not that i know of, Gigas is shown on the Yamanaya packaging but as far as i know it hasn't been issued in any of the sets so far or as a single.
This is the only original/reissue pair I have right now, but there is a pretty drastic size difference with Skydon.
I have Hyper Hobby Dash 6, which was published in 2001. It shows Yamanaya Bullmark mini sets A through F. Did they ever do a set G or beyond?
Answering my own question, sets G and H: https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1135147142&ref=alist&lang=en https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1142458303&ref=alist&lang=en Wonder if I'll ever be able to find all of these sets.
Yeah I think those ones stopped at H, not seen an I set. Also when they released the reprint Leo Kaiju sets they started at A again.
Yeah I'm not too sure if they did come from the same mould. I read somewhere that the mini Dorako mould was lost but they made a new mould from an existing figure. Though I have no idea how this is possible it's hard to believe they resculpted as it is almost identical but larger. They even have the same small tool marks etc.