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Author:  kichigai [ Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:20 am ]
Post subject:  what is this little monsters story?
got this dude from two Pachisummits ago..

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i know there are some vintage model kits but was it from anything?

i really dig it so any help or answers = thanks!
Author:  jcrazy [ Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:31 am ]
Post subject:  Re: what is this little monsters story?
Do you have a bigger picture of the one that's on the left?? What's his name.
Author:  kichigai [ Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:46 am ]
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its a hideshi hino character called Zowroku

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Author:  lurker [ Mon Nov 03, 2008 11:01 am ]
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post pictures of the feet and i can translate the name and such.
Author:  kichigai [ Mon Nov 03, 2008 11:17 am ]
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feets..

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Author:  downwithgnomes [ Mon Nov 03, 2008 1:13 pm ]
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The feets say "Globe Stars" for those who may not know.
It's Katakana, so it's Japanified English.
Author:  downwithgnomes [ Mon Nov 03, 2008 1:19 pm ]
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The name I found for him is: Baruden Seijin (バルデン星人)

Literally translated it is: Person from the Planet of Baruden, so personally I'd call him baruden

Edit:
I guess my english translation was wrong, but I found a yahoo J! auction with this same dude and it was titled: 限定怪獣ソフビモンスターズ:グロブスターズ:バルデン星人

Did I get the name of the dude wrong too?
Author:  akum6n [ Mon Nov 03, 2008 1:23 pm ]
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downwithgnomes wrote:
The feets say "Globe Stars" for those who may not know.
It's Katakana, so it's Japanified English.


Marmit Globsters. This guy was from the Art Storm Sofubi Monsters set A.
Author:  kichigai [ Mon Nov 03, 2008 3:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: what is this little monsters story?
thanks for replies. i see the vintage models are
called the Baruden Seijin as well but is it tied to
a show or manga or just an original character?
Author:  akum6n [ Mon Nov 03, 2008 3:47 pm ]
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kichigai wrote:
thanks for replies. i see the vintage models are
called the Baruden Seijin as well but is it tied to
a show or manga or just an original character?


I think these models were original patchi-kaiju, hence the popularity in reproducing them in vinyl form. Marmit and its relatives, Target Earth, Skull Head Butt and Globsters, seem to have a special fondness for these kits.

After a little research, it looks like Baruden Seijin is actually a repackaging by Ikkou Mokei of the Hedoro plamodel from Arii:

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compare with

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As a sidenote, the Maguran Seijin character is also apparently a plamodel original, again a repackaged Arii model released (?) by Ikkou Mokei:

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I always thought that the Maguran looked like the Sumoka kit, but this seems to explain it.

I think Marmit also expressed interest in producing these old kits a while back on the Marmit Plus blog. Let me see if I can dig up the post.

Anyway, I feel like I've seen these images bouncing around the boards before, so probably nothing new. Thought I would post since I didn't realize the full connection between the Arii models and the Globsters toys. Also, search function borken still.

Credits for the Arii models to the famous patchi-kaiju card website, and credits for the Baruden Seijin image to the Nandemoplamo brog.
Author:  kichigai [ Mon Nov 03, 2008 4:07 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: what is this little monsters story?
WOW thanks! I have been looking around
for the second kit pictured and always have
wondered about this characters origins.

2 board friends helped me get that mini
and others from that set from the summit
& i like it a bunch for no particular reason.

its sort of "grimace-like" and has a lot of
charm. thanks for going into detail with
the response, that was very cool of you.

would love to see marmit or any company
do a standard size vinyl figure of it. maybe
that will happen, i sure hope so.
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