So many great dino's ! Thanks for sharing the photos !

Andy posted a report on a display of vintage dino and patchi-kaiju vinyls at Mandarake. Amazing!

http://kaijukorner.blogspot.com/2013/12/vintage-pachi-bootleg-kaiju-display.html

I wonder if some of these are on loan from Cosmo Knight Alpha- I've seen the bagged yellow Diatryma (red and green paint variant) in his shop, and how many of those can there be out there?

Oh wow that's a pretty cool display of patchi dinos! I really love whatever that colorful beast is on all fours with the nice dorsal fin after the Ceratosaurus pic.

What a nice display, would love to be able to check it out in person. The dinos are fantastic as always, but those sparkers really have my attention. It would definitely be interesting to know if CKA and Mandarake collab on these shelves. Thanks for the coverage Andy!

Dug these guys out of my treasure box. They are unmarked, but I think they might be from Tsukuda. Could be just pachi dinos too though; if anyone knows for sure, just hit me up with the answer. Fun toys anyhow, and a lot of detail for such small figures (each is only about 6cm long).

Wow... What an amazingly inspiring thread. I just waded through page after page of pics of thing I never new existed... And now I want them ALL.

I recently acquired these clear vinyl dinos. They do not have a manufacturers mark only their name in Japanese on a foot. Left to right they are: Iguanadon, Ceratosaurus, and Kentrosaurus.


As I was placing them in my display, I noticed that they are smaller (9cm) versions of others I have. The larger versions (10cm) are also only marked with the dinosaur name but consensus is that they are by Tsukuda. I also had an even smaller (8cm) Kentrosaurus in silver vinyl with no markings at all. I wonder if the smaller versions are also made by Tsukuda or are boots? Anyway, I like them just fine.

Congratulations Mark! Those are stunning! I love the translucent vinyl, makes them look like hard candy figures. Will you use them as candy containers?

P.S. If you have ones you don't like, you can send them to me

This is a rather unusual Marushin. Its neither a mini or a standard size, but more of a mid size. Has anyone else seen this one before?

Yes, but only in a small, grainy photo. Very nice find!

With a couple of exceptions, most of the mid-size Marushin dinos seem to be very rare.

Jim, that Dino is amazing. I love the head and the colors. Nice pickup!

Really nice pick-up, Jim. He still eludes me.
Here's a couple of pics from an old auction.

Mark & Jim,

Is it common for these to have different sprays or are there just the two?

how many other Dinos are in this Marushin series?

Some more Marushin dinos in different sizes. 22 Marushin dinos shown. The others are from other companies.

http://dinosaur-fan.net/naruhodo/tamura/37/

Wow, that's a great marushin link! Thanks Mark for those pics, but it makes me wonder what it sold for. The patchi link was also very cool, and brought back a lot of memories of endless searching for those vinyls.

Some of the Marushin dinos do have different sprays, but I think Jim's pachycephalosaurus just has the red faded mostly away.
That Marushin link shows the most examples I have seen in one place and I do not think it is complete. If you page back and forth from that page there are other vintage dino lines shown like Sun & Brownie, Marusan, Daikyo and even the blow-molded Sinclair dinos.
Jim, it must have sold for more than I was willing to pay so I'm guessing over $200.

A couple of recent dino pick-ups:


These mini guys stand about 8-8.5 cm tall. They are unmarked and only articulated at the waist. I like the paint and the oddly contorted sculpt.


These guys are blow-molded and marked "Kenko". The T rex stands 9 cm tall and the stegosaurus is 12.5 cm long. Hoping there are others in this series out there.

Here are some more detailed pics of the dino/prehistoric animal quoits set I got from CKA on our recent visit to Japan.


There are six figures: mammoth, Diatryma, T-rex, Stegosaurus, Iguanodon and Brontosaurus. They average about 10cm tall and come in a plastic drawstring bag with a printed cardboard base and 5 rings (quoits).


The figures are definitely on the cute side but are great sculpts with nice paint.


They are made by a company called Daiwa. I am not sure about their other output but have never noticed any other toys made by them. The cardboard says, to the best of my translation abilities, “I friend of good child” and “Time free (or possibly Kaiju) quoits” This may be a play on words.


Not sure how well they would work in an actual game of quoits because they are small and hollow, like finger dolls.
Only discovered this set sometime last year and was very lucky to pick up such a nice, complete set in person.

^ Easily my favorite toys to hit the boards recently. Thanks for the report, Mark.

Ooh! Woolie Mammoth is adorable! Love the variety and colors of the dinos and all those pieces. I am assumming those round disc things are the base for the dinos, or are they game chips? I would think it would have to be a careful and delicate game of tossing, to prevent the dinos getting knocked over. It makes me wonder if this is an outdoor ring toss game, where you drive stakes into the grass and slip the hollow dinos over the top of a stake, to play? Very nice adoption. Looking forward to seeing how you will dislpay them in your collection. Nifty circular toy label graphics!

p.s. please explain what is that interesting looking game board the dinos are sitting on.

p.p.s everytime I see those clear dinos, i have to drool over them

The rings, I believe are the ones you toss over the figures. They do seem a little fragile for that but I have never seen any posts to put them on. Right now I just display the figures amongst my other dinosaurs:



It is a Japanese carom board. See my post at the bottom of this page for a picture and description: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=36494&p=868641&hilit=carom#p868641

holy crap Mark! that rules

Thank you for the explanation! The poor little ring toss dinos look somewhat scared, clustered together on their little island

Ha, they really do. That's post traumatic ring toss syndrome for ya.

Great set, by the way.

Oooh...Japanese carrom?? Very cool. I always thought carrom was an Indian thing because our family has a board, as do lots of our Indian friends!