When I first got into collecting these damn things, there were several figures that I felt were so ridiculous, I just knew I would never own one. I found solace in that fact, as I knew my wallet would be spared me ever going after them. I now own several of each.

A few that come to mind:
I thought zags were ugly when I first saw them. I now think they're cute.
I thought Matango was so ridiculous. "Let's just put any damn thing on top of a body." (I didn't know the character then.) I'm now fighting the urge to collect them all.
I used to hate the scooped out face of the walking Gargamel hedoran. Now I could never own too many.

Currently dorogamis are still 'never evers' for me, but I think I might hear one calling now....

oh I like this thread

For me, I never thought I would like kanegon and my army of those is coming together.

Also, bemons were never interesting to me and now I find them hard to resist

Well, I will probably never ever own a Bemon, but it won't be for lack of trying.

Pushead stuff. Have never felt the urge and can't see it in the future, either.

Edit: Whoops, missed the point of this thread....errrrr...never thought I'd buy a Zag, either, but the SDCC one changed my mind. Still my only only one, along with the matching mini.

Hey L...you guys make it to SakuraCon?

Nice post. These are my 3. All of these I thought were a little to goofy but now I'm totally into.

For me
1) the walking hedoran. I used to hate the flat face. Now I really like them.

2) Any RxH figure. I thought the torn jeans shorts were too goofy. (I only have
a few mini rxh but i really like these figures and the paint applications)

3) Gargamel Fight figures. When the lucky bags this year came out..someone wanted the gammepa. I thought it was so lame. Then I ended up buying a gargadeath and I was instantly hooked. I really like the fight figures now.

We're heading out tonight to pick up our passes. You?

years ago, when I first started collecting Japanese toys, I could not understand the appeal of vinyl toys. i regarded them as crude bath-tub toys. Why would anyone want something so ridiculous when they could have awesome diecast robots?



Well......

all Cronic

those dragamel things

and I'll be the first to throw in the obvious put down on anything Western/d.unny/KR looking

I'm sure there are others

oh this is all stuff I would still never collect, by the way

there really isn't a lot of stuff I had to "come around" on. I like most of what I did when I started collecting.

Oh yeah, I really didn't like dragamels when they first came out. Now, seven later....

oh wait, I thought of one

I thought these new SB sharkman figures looked pretty lame, but now that I saw on in person, my interest is totally peaked. much cooler up close when you get to hold one.

Hah! Apparently not, since I thought it was last weekend. Let me know what days you're going...I may try and make it one day.

Ha! And ridiculously expensive, I might add... You could buy pristine vintage stuff for the prices of some of these toys. I still like awesome robots, though...

I never thought I would collect Cronic figures as the designs were a little too otherworldly for me at the time. ("$90 for the Illusion E Maverasu?? Who would ever pay that much?") Yeah, still don't have that one...

For me, it's more a matter of drawing the line in the sand and collecting certain lines/sculpts in lieu of others. I don't think there's any kaiju, fight or neo-kaiju toy that I hate to the point of complete avoidance.

i hate to admit it, but mine was skull brains. i think it was the whole boxing glove angle. i don't know. but the funny thing is, that is all i pretty much have been buying up lately!

it was never really any specific toy or line, more a budgetary constraint, i wouldn't pay over $50 dollars at first......i thought "$100 for a plastic toy??" .....now it's way too easy to break the hundy mark......

i hear ya. those were my thoughts exactly. i'm still iffy about going past the $200 milestone, but the hundred mark gets hit a lot these days...

i thought when i use to collect (explicit) that how could i spend this much money on a toy then SB came same thing but more money then RxH havnt had the oppertunity to buy any anraku or bemon yet but i fear the day i decide to start collecting vintage
i really havnt found anything that i really want to stay away from though the dogrami
nougaki
and the other fish head looking dont really do it for me
as of yet

my attempt at vintage collecting was short lived. trying to juggle the finances of keeping up with the new stuff i wanted and tracking down vintage stuff wasn't in me.

Bemon. Over time though I came to appreciate it and now I finally own one.

I'm in that walking hedoran club. Now as far as I'm concerned, The uglier..the better.

I wasn't into Gargamel in general but when I got a good look at the sculpts at Comicon last year I totally fell for Zagoran and Smogun.

Flying Hedorah.

Bemons for me, not that I hated them off the bat but Frank just didn't take very nice pictures of his, I remember seeing his picture of a bunch of them just sitting in the bottom of a Detolf and thinking, those are $175?! or whatever they used to sell for.

Those were handpaints, now I live with regret.

ahem. I dont think you can be living with too much regret.

i'm still not crazy about the crawling hedolan. takes up too much shelf space for a mini...

RxH mini's,,I thought -Oh great another RxH line to collect then I got one in trade and now I found myself posting about how many are made so far.
Another are Vinyl Junkies figures (too pricey),,Till I caved in and bought one in the BST cause it was such a great price. Now I got 12 and hunting.