wow . those look great ! you dont know how many times i just about started collecting those guys . i even put bids on the mummy and lion man but lost . there are a few people on this board who i know have tiger mask vinyls . any idea how many got made into giant size ? quite a few were made into the 6 in. versions . love the fact that they made a ring for these guys to fight in .

according to the info page that onibaba posted, there are 6 giant size vinyls: 2 versions of tigermask, golden maks, the lion mask, the red death mask and rulers of the tiger's cave

i have two of the regular 12" vinyls... i got them back in 03-04, when i started collecting vintage vinyls (yeah i'm still a newbie)



*edit* since my previous post was confusing.

Subt, are you sure those are the giants? they look like the normal 12" versions. The ginats I saw were 15"+. I was lucky enough once to see the entire set of six, still in bags with sashes!

brian,
yes, the ones i have are the regular versions... (man i wish i have any gof the giant ones)
i didn't mean to say that those were the giant size vinyls. i guess i should've specified that in my previous post.

sorry if my post was confusing!
(i edited my previous post btw)

this may be my bad . i think i may have called this a giant size . i remember a friend a long time ago descibing a giant size version of the red wrestler you have . he told me that it had vinyl caps that went over the horns . should have thought maybe that the standard size would be made the same way .

Instead of collecting all the figures, I opted for this Nakajima catalog/poster. Now I at least have a photo of them all and it does not take up much space. Sorry, I do not have access to my camera so I had to scan it in sections. The best listing of all the Tiger Mask vinyls I have seen is in the Sofubi Figure Whole Catalog 2000 (ISBN4-415-09321-3).

I have the skeleton guy. bought it in Tokyo years ago. one of my fav old figures.

yea i just bought a pretty dirty one on yahoo - so hopefully it will clean up some.

Just got these in!

thats a great haul ! the first vinyl ( fish guy ) is another one im going to have to get one day .

Do you think that Skeleton guy inspired the RxH RyusieNinja? They both have stars on their head.

http://img229.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/user ... 000660.jpg i think this guy is also a wrestler . reminds me a lot of gold lightan though .

Yea, he's from Kinnikuman.

oh yeah ! thanks for the reminder . kept trying to think where i had seen this guy before . was this show an early 80s cartoon ? there was an updated version of it in the U.S not that long ago i think .

his name is sunshine and he is one of the biggest a-holes in the kinnikuman story

he has this one move where his chest opens up to reveal rollers where he grabs opponents and crushes them through to the back

just had to find the right book . sure noticed a couple of them look very similar to tiger mask wrestlers .

great collection pickle....and like vintage said....all i got is envy too.....

Wow -- Never seen those Kinnikuman vinyls. I guess I never really looked, but I figured they had to be out there. Very, very cool.

What sort of date are we talking for those Kinikuman vinyls? They new, vintage, a few years old?

depends on what you think of vintage . the year in the book shows 1982 .

i just won a purty one

it's gonna be a little ouchy on the wallet, but i've been looking for this for awhile

nice pick up, thats a great figure!

its interesting that they made a few slightly different versions of this figure. the one i have has the right hand open, and the left is a fist, opposite of yours. ive also seen photos of a version with both hands making fists.

weird!

any idea where this one comes from? i dont think it is nakajima made, but i could definitely be wrong

skull star my only tiger mask bad guy

That kanji and hiragana is Tiger Mask's creators names. Anything on the other foot?