This is something I have been working on for a while, and I am still trying to finish it off, but after Grace's post I thought I would post what I have now, to help people out. Please contribute whatever you can and I will add it to the list. I am by no means an expert on these releases, so all info is welcome For lines as a whole, there is nothing that does it for me like the CCP reissues of the vintage Masudaya Spectreman figures. Sure, there might be a few individual figures I like more, but for overall appeal, I think this line takes it. And judging from the other threads on this board, I am not alone. So, here is what I can piece together of the figures that have been re-released by CCP so far. Once I get the info I can re-organise by release date. Unlike the vintage figures, which seem to extremely variant in colour applications, the CCP versions generally have one or two schemes, and I have tried to list the ones I know of here. Thunder-gei [サンダーゲイ]: appearance, ep. 17-18 blue pink GID animated GIF courtesy of cae (Corey at http://www.coreyshead.com/) Kurumaniclas/Kuruma-Nikuras [クルマニクラス]: appearance, ep. 23 yellow brown/red limited clear version unpainted clear version - I am not sure this was an official release, might be one of those low number promo/test versions Dustman [ダストマン]: appearance, ep. 11-12 green red poor pic and seen here having a heated debate with his counterpart above image courtesy of plover blue/gray blue/black image courtesy of geozilla a similar version was later reissued by Medicom Toy, but I am unable to clarify the exact differences between the two figures, or whether this is the same as the above. The former seems more overall blue sprays, whereas the Medicom version has broken up metallic blue and black paint. If packaged, the header is noticeable different (see thumbs below). standard Medicom forest green I think this is a separate release from the one above dark green, with red eyes I don't have any additional information about this release unfortunately Midoron [ミドロン]: appearance, ep. 3 blue I don't if this is the 'normal' version, but the paint accents and sparkle on top of what I think is flesh vinyl, seem to me that it could be a special release dark blue image courtesy of bonemask dark green (pic to come) Mitsuzu-ryu/Mitsukubi Ryu [三つ首竜]: appearance, ep. 32-33 purple image courtesy of bonemask red w/green red w/blue seen here on the far right GID image courtesy of kurumonz black unpainted (pic to come) Bakula [バクラー] (w/ parasite): appearance, ep. 19-20 dark blue image courtesy of plasticXO light brown dark grey/brown seen in this pic image courtesy of Booschwobe Awesome Toy neon green/purple version Bakula (no parasite) GID image courtesy of Beautification Syndrome not sure if this version is slightly different, but gives a better colour view of him Nezubirdon [ネズバードン]: appearance, ep. 9-10 white/cream black/grey image courtesy of bonemask blue image courtesy of booschwoobe Dr. Gori: appearance, ep. 1 The re-issue version (seen on the right below) has molded hair, unlike the original image courtesy of kurumonz Zunou: appearance, ep. 21-22 transparent yellow Magnetudon [モグネチュードン]: appearance, ep. 15-16 brown-red rainbow purple Gokinosaurus [ゴキノザウルス]: appearance, ep. 7-8 black green Another one I am not sure comes from a full release or not Zeron [ゼノン]: appearance, ep. 3-4 dark brown maroon green and bronze orange/light brown another shot of the brown Baronsaurus [ バロンザウルス]: appearance, ep. 24 green (pic to come) purple - I initially though this was an unpainted figure (due to the angle) but you can see silver highlights on close inspection, and the second photo shows that the eyes are definitely painted black seen on the left here Giant Size Mitsukubi Ryû red black (or maybe dark blue) possibly similar to unpainted, but seen on right here does seem to have sprayed tones Here is another pic where it clearly looks blue As I said, this just covers specfically the re-issued Masudaya figures, I have not listed the 'realistic' CCP Spectreman line. There are, of course, also the Bearmodel releases, but I will save that for another time.
WOW! I never saw that glow Bakular with green highlights before. Damn, that's gonna haunt me! There are a few variants I may be able to add, Steve. Sending pics soon...
Glow Bakura with silver eye ? interesting ! you can always discover something in this hobby ! You'll need to add : Baron Saurius - Green Baron Saurius - Black Baron Saurius - Purple Mitsukubi Ryû - Red Mitsukubi Ryû - Black Unpainted Midoron - Dark Green (the picture you've put is the dark green one) Nezubaadon - White Nezubaadon - Blue Dr Gori - Molded hair Giant size Mitsukubi Ryû - Dark Blue Mitsukubi Ryû - Red I can provide some pics if you'd like.
Technically, this is not a CCP reissue, but it could be added to the list as Masudaya repro. As for Medicom's Kuruma, the paint job seems difficult to distinguish from CCP's.
Dig it - Medicom is taking orders on these....worldwide! Shipping is cheap, pre-orders begin today thru end of September and shipping is super-cheap! I can post the order link if people are interested....
Thanks for all the added information guys. I will keep updating the thread as stuff comes in. It is surprisingly difficult to find images for these guys online, even though I have seen some of them in person. As for the Medicom versions, I am a bit unclear. From what I can tell these are CCP reissues as well. The sculpts are definitely also taken from the original molds. The Kurumanikurasu looks almost identical in fact, with the addition of the Zollmen sash.
This Nezubirdon is either GID or white: Years back (this would be 200 we called him "rat bird" here for a little bit: search.php?keywords=%22rat+bird%22&terms=all&author=&sc=1&sf=all&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search Choon has a pic of this one in particular so he could tell us if it is GID or not. It's probably just wishful thinking on my part.
I'm pretty sure there's never been a GID Nezu. The white/cream looks GID, but it's not. I can provide pics of this one if needed.
Ordered one of the Dustman, got the confirmation email saying wait for follow up. But I haven't received a follow up email yet. Anyone else? Anyone know, do you just send payment using the shipping chart? Or will they email you payment amount? Thanks.
I haven't heard anything yet either, last time on the zollmen release i had a follow up email telling me i missed out so they should let us know regardless.
Hope so, I imagine they got a ton of orders, so hopefully it's just taking a little while to get back. But the international page with the shipping chart and directions to email payment did throw me a little bit.
Thanks for the addition. I just added those guys a few days ago based on the pics I saw, and it seems a bluish purple, so it may be just the lighting and is likely the same one. I can't see them having two releases that similar to one another, but when you look at some of their other stuff, it is fully possible. I will look into this some more and do a more complete update.
Great find Kurumonz. It seems each of the monster has a version with pop colour vinyl and minimal paint. It looks like they're shipping this week
