zone fighter was kind of a breakthrough for me, as up to that point i had only collected kaiju. the dot com companies were almost dead, and prices on vintage toys were going back to normal. my friend john jackson had this on e bay, and i thought it would look good next to all the zone monsters. when i finally held it in my hands, i had an almost instant transformation into having to get more japanese heros. some of the zone kaiju were the earliest vintage i bought, mostly because i thought they were cool, and even better, they were cheap.

cant seem to get yellow backgrounds to look right.

Each one better than the next! Jim, was there a vintage Zikiro ("Jikiro"?)? I have the recent (I assume) glowie made by Yutari, but I'm wondering if there were any toys made of him previously.

I still need the drill head, dammit!

I also have a vintage bandai mini. plus various header cards.

I didn't know the zandora was not an original sculpt

These are fantastic especially the orange base guy on the pink backdrop,
great photography definitely helps also

As far as I can recall Charactics only does licensed characters - unless I am forgetting something.
Would love to see more classic kaiju by him in that "nice middle" size.

hey chad, could you take a pic of the vintage bandai mini ?

Off the top of my head, no. These were all made by Orange.

Gods, Jim. All of your toys are so clean. Disgusting. ;P

Jim, I will try to take a photo of the mini for you...

The vintage Bandai mini is somewhere in my sale thread.

It is NOT for sale. I am just lazy with my shitty photos...

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Felt like I needed to take a pic of this guy:


Popy Zone Fighter by Beautification Syndrome, on Flickr

One day I'll own a full sizer!

That is awesome mini pickup. I am always hunting around for these guys, but their relative unpopularity (and hence current scarcity) drives the price quite a bit. I thought I posted this elsewhere somewhere, but here is my Bandai full size.

Removable mask I presume? Yeah that's the one I want eventually. I've had this Popy guy for a bit just got around to snapping a solo shot. He has standing issues so every once awhile I have to apply the heat.

Ultra sometimes I think you're the only guy interested in my vintage posts.

He's not.

I just don't have much to add...and "+1" and other useless posts add nothing and are a waste of bandwidth.

Keep doing your thing. I fucking love it.

yeah i like seeing these posts as well- im not too much into the "heroes" but they are still nice to look at.

i choose the vintage forum over any other here on skullbrain any day

Yep, it is indeed the removeable mask version, though I am in need of one of the standard Bandai heads if anyone has a junk figure or comes across one in their travels. I really like this guy, it was a hard buy at the time, but his helmet spike really makes him quite tall, and he looks great among other dudes.

Here's some Zone Fighter original art. The smaller two, I believe, are from some Cisco candy packaging. I have no idea what the larger one comes from. Colors are much brighter. My flash kind of wiped them out a little.

Wow!
Those are great, Mark.
Very nice artwork.

Here's a TakaToku mini. 9cm of goodness!

Lixx, did you win that on eBay?