Last night/morning before going to bed (Hubby made me ), I noticed that one of my Butanohana dinos was glowing when I turned out the lights. So I ran around with a flash-light this evening to see which of my other dinos glowed, and it turns out that only the Grumble Toy exclusive versions are GID. Akum6n, can I please ask if any of your early version dinos glow?

...I would post a pic of my herd, but my camera just decided to go wonky

I think only the Grumble Toy set glows. Yes, please post some collection shots!

akum6n, where do you score these Howatons? These are hard to track. Love them.

Hey why not.

Some of the first- and most difficult to find- Max Toy Co. items.



The packaging is quite excellent and ahead of its time, if you ask me. Check out the early version of Drazoran on the header.

Another neat find. Back before anyone knew about Elegab, he was releasing vinyl figures of Dokuro Taro under the radar at various toy shows. I believe most of these early figures were done in collaboration with a hobby company called Kojikado (see link here: http://www2.ocn.ne.jp/~kojikado/sakuhin/nari/dokuro.html). There were actually several versions of the solid color and clear green Dokuro Taro sold over the years.



Although I can't find the link now, I remember seeing the announcement for this one after the show ended. It was so different from the other stuff, and I really wanted one- unfortunately, it was limited to only a few pieces. Somehow or other, I managed to find one a few years later...

The character info from Kojikado's website says that this is a version of Dokuro Taro that has been poisoned by a monster... creating Crazy Dokuro Taro! No idea about the jumprope.

black and gid maxx are awesome.
never really dug the figure, but seeing it unpainted totally works for me.

Holy crap, those are three awesome hero vinyls. I am constantly bummed that I did not discover vinyl enough to have access to cool finds like the early Captain Maxx stuff or the fantastic small-scale Elegab stuff. That custom Taro is incredible. I'd love to see more of those early works, because the versions on that link are great. I am sooo glad I managed to snag one of the clear green ones that were in the webstore a few months back, even if it's a much simpler version.