First off, thanks to Bert for providing me the set of pachi cards. You can view the whole set here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fiendsaint ... 759997804/ I'm curious though, which of these monsters have been made into vinyl toys. The ones I recognize are: These three are part of Ilanena's Dai Kaiju Card Monsters Set. Here's the upcoming Ilanena x Kaiju Korner version. Emupaiya also has vinyl versions of these: Anyone have a good pic of these three from Emupaiya together? Is this a Zagora(n)? And it'd be great if someone can help translate all their names.
Ziradon? I was going through the same list in my head but never got around to marking them off. There used to be a website that listed these cards along with another couple sets but the link seems dead now (404).
Zag guy is Jiradon and Micky Mouse Corncob is Beshyura. I was translating them all but I accidentally hit refresh when I was almost done on my post and don't feel like doing it again
Bert- I think this is the website that you are thinking of: http://maruwo.hp.infoseek.co.jp/pachi_1.htm
Love these cards. I posted a comment on Joe's flickr, but if someone could translate the name of the one in my avatar, I would be very appreciative. I absolutely love the character design and it's silly that I don't know the name of it.
It's a really weird name to write in English, phonetically Oh-Ah-Pee-Aaah. Romanji: Oapiaa Toy is Ultraman's Jamilla and the card monster is Morisu Seijin though I can only imagine it is inspired by the Ultra kaiju what with the pig nose and cracks in the body. I don't know about that perm though...
I don't think so. I was told that the cards were originally included in packages of Kewpie mayonnaise. I believe Ilanena pays some sort of license fee to Kewpie.
Seems to me that there was another, earlier set of cards - similar, but not the same. If I can track them down, I will try to post them here. Maybe from pulog1.exblog.jp/? I can't remember.
I was remembering something else. They appear to be trading cards, rather than playing cards. I think these have shown up around here before. You can see them by clicking the next arrows, starting here: http://jumbow.main.jp/5en/tobozu.html Here are a couple of them (the monsters seem to not like cars or boats):
Way nice & cool. A complet Ilanena set of those would slay ! - even more with mini tiny lil' cars . .
And the top card looks very similar to Gebora by Target Earth, at least as far as the body shape and eyes (mouth parts different).
Thanks for the info guys. I wonder how the cost of licensing characters from forgotten mayonnaise premiums compares to Toho or Tsubaraya characters.
I just got my first Ilanena set the other day, so I've been looking for good resources on the cards. It seems like no one has posted a picture of the backs of the playing cards. Were they printed on the back? This link shows the cards and the box, as well as some other card sets. http://maruwoo.web.fc2.com/pachi_1.htm