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Mutonismyfriend
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Joined: Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:21 pm Posts: 8387 Location: At home
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Underated Toy of the Week: 4th Anniv Phantom 8 Man
I'm listing this guy as a companion to last weeks SharkMan. This is a medicom produced Retro action hero, with the clear RAH300 base body, that came out last year to celebrate SecretBase's 4th Anniversarry. Its a total collab, as it uses the SB Phantom 8 Man suit mould (in a rather spiffy silver and copper spray paint colorway), and adds a belt and orange flight suit in tribute..of course...to the vintage Henshin Cyborg suits. The suit is an excellent addition, and really adds to the figure. I was thrilled to find a clear inner head under the rubber-ish bee head (yep, the bee head is a nice malleable material as opposed to hard vinyl). The suit is stamped as MADE in JAPAN, and the quality is excellent - so I'm guessing that the regular SB factory was used to produce most of the components. There is also an all clear vinyl version available. Both come in the standard retro action heroes packaging, with the curved front piece. This box features some great text, describing the story of Phantom 8 Man in English, and some pics basically ripped off from a vintage Uk Muto and Cyborg box (not the first time, by the way).
Totally underrated and so very yummy.
Inner Head Shot
Outer Bee Head shot
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Fri May 19, 2006 8:07 pm |
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Frsh.nss
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Joined: Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:06 pm Posts: 859 Location: OLY, WA (like the rancid song)
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man that is cool! did it come with the body? I have seen that available countless times and just passed right over it.
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Fri May 19, 2006 10:58 pm |
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Mutonismyfriend
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Joined: Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:21 pm Posts: 8387 Location: At home
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The whole guy comes complete with the RAH300 base body. I haven't seen many of these come up lately though. Mne came from Secretbase's store in Tokyo last July, where it retailed for a bargain 8,000 yen.
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Fri May 19, 2006 11:14 pm |
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jltohru
S7 Royalty
Joined: Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:05 pm Posts: 3599 Location: sitting on skwisgaar's lap
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WOW, i know zero, no, negative about these figures, but that is an extremely awesome toy!
those bee heads rock so hard, they are quite simply BADASS
btw, great idea for an ongoing forum topic
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Sat May 20, 2006 2:13 am |
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JHOTTROD
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Joined: Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:14 am Posts: 2902 Location: Nowhere NY
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Thats fucking killer Carl!!!!!Man i gotta snag one of these..
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Sat May 20, 2006 4:16 am |
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the_z
Side Dealer
Joined: Wed Jan 25, 2006 12:05 am Posts: 2148 Location: a Ukranian village
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Yeah, love this feature! Great figure too...I never got too much into Phantom 8 man but there was a pretty cool Neo Geo game back in the day if I recall...
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Sat May 20, 2006 9:18 am |
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Nostromo
Toy Prince
Joined: Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:00 am Posts: 328 Location: Houston, Texas
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Hope some of these show up somewhere...
this figure is amazingly awesome! Love the paintjob and the design features.
...and I love the fact that it comes with the proper body. Surely I'm not the only one that would buy some of those cool suits if only we had bodies to put them on... >_<
Love this series... hyper cool Sharkman and now this... let's see some more "underrated" treasures!
And Z, you're pretty close. The Neo Geo game was very cool, and based on the manga and anime, 8-Man. Perhaps the easiest resource is over here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_Man
And there was an anime revival a little while back called "8 Man After". Take a little look -- it was a cool series, and the original anime was, if I'm not mistaken, part of the Tetsujin 28 / Gigantor generation...
Hope that helps!
I figure the 8 Man reference in this fig's name is another old school homage / tribute, like the Walder Brains, etc.
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Sat May 20, 2006 10:24 am |
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cometdebris
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Joined: Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:59 am Posts: 551 Location: Tokyo
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Nostromo wrote: I figure the 8 Man reference in this fig's name is another old school homage / tribute, like the Walder Brains, etc.
Actually 8 is "hachi" in Japanese, which also means bee.
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Sat May 20, 2006 9:00 pm |
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Mutonismyfriend
Illuminati
Joined: Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:21 pm Posts: 8387 Location: At home
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cometdebris wrote: Nostromo wrote: I figure the 8 Man reference in this fig's name is another old school homage / tribute, like the Walder Brains, etc. Actually 8 is "hachi" in Japanese, which also means bee.
So it's the Phantom Bee Man, which makes sense. I often call these guys Bee men anyway. Thanks for the info Koji!
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Sat May 20, 2006 11:11 pm |
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LamourSupreme
Mini Boss
Joined: Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:19 pm Posts: 4010 Location: now
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that figure is insane. definitely got to do a series of these.
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Sun May 21, 2006 12:27 am |
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daughtersfan18
Toy Prince
Joined: Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:36 pm Posts: 346 Location: Sin City
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fucking awsome bee. keep up the good work
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