Hello,
I hope this is an ok topic, as it has vintage and modern. I thought it might be a nice reference to start, to post a vintage figure beside its counterpart reissue OR repro (thanks for the correction Steve!
). A big thanks to Mark K as always 
, for his vast toy knowledge and his generosity to share. He's helped me immensely from avoiding BIG boo boos along the way in my toy adoptions, and all of the factoids are vastly fascinating to me. AND thank you to everyone for sharing your knowledge and questions along the way too! Ok... so here is the Popy Kanegon. The repro is smaller and stands to the left, while the vintage brother stands to the right and is taller.
also...
The differences:
-Height of vintage is about 5 mm taller (not that much!)
-The length of the collar scale (just under the head) is slightly longer in the vintage creature (see 1st photo)
-Chin of repro is sunken in/concave, but in the vintage it's a convex transition, where the head fits onto the neck--you can see this in the second photo
Other than that, the logo is identical, and the color and spray placement is also nearly identical. It's really hard to tell them apart! So unless the adoption descriptions are specific or you happen to really know the difference, it's easy to confuse the older brother with his younger counterpart
I'm adding the header card, encyclopedia, and Baltan photos that Steve posted (see his original post in the Vintage Mail Day thread). Thanks again Steve, for finding and sharing these photos!
HEADER CARDS
Reissue
Vintage
Front
Back
Vintage advertisement from back of Ultraman Encyclopedia of Keibunsha
Baltan: Reissue on left, vintage on right
>. So the carpenter took the photos. He really thinks these toys are weird (but in a good way).
