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el maz
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Joined: Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:24 am
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Location: lost angeles
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 M.U.S.C.L.E. men i love those things. still have a huge bag full of them.
looking at them, it is easy to see the influences from japanese toys. some truly dope shit
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| Fri Apr 28, 2006 2:56 pm |
 
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cornbluth
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Joined: Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:18 pm
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Location: we love it
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^ I bought a sealed garbage can of them last year. love them
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ionz149
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Joined: Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:38 pm
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dayum...muscle men!!!!
forgot about them shits.
all flesh toned, i had purple, red, and blue ones too.
http://www.raumhafen.de/galerie/rubber_ ... 01-130.gif
theres a grip of em on one gif
from that doods site
"These little wrestlers were taken from a Japanese comic book and cartoon, Kinnikuman (Muscle Man), which is about intergalactic wrestling. Originally they were produced by Bandai/Japan in the mid 80s. Mattel distributed them in the USA."
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Slack
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Joined: Sat Nov 19, 2005 2:34 am
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I didn't collect them as a kid but I think I could start now
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Slack
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Joined: Sat Nov 19, 2005 2:34 am
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I just looked em up on ebay and all I could find was
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el maz
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Location: lost angeles
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Count
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Joined: Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:24 am
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Location: Canada
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Muscle Men rule, I got all stoked when I saw that new Ultimate Muscle cartoon one day and I ran out to Toys R Us to grab some of the new toys, they aren't nearly as cool as the old ones though.
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el maz
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Joined: Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:24 am
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Location: lost angeles
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oh damn...this one is freakin great!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Collection-of-M-U-S ... dZViewItem
the moron tried to color in their underwear in black marker
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Parka
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Joined: Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:14 pm
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Location: Oop North, UK
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The anime is too funny
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moriachi
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The Kinkotuman Skullbrain that came out with the red scarf was based on one of the Muscle's. I can't think of his English name now, but it is Kinkotuman.
I have a big tub of these guys from when I was a kid.
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LamourSupreme
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Slack wrote: I didn't collect them as a kid but I think I could start now I didn't collect them as a kid either but I did pilfer quite a few.
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deadgoon
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Joined: Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:37 pm
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My brother and i still have a bunch of these. I used to love that they came in a trash can.
I picked up a few of these recently: http://www.kidrobot.com/shop.php?sku=9896&Category=Mini-Figures%2C%20Capsule%20Toys%20%26%20Keychains
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lurker
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Joined: Thu Dec 08, 2005 8:22 pm
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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i used to have these, i don't know what happened to them.
i had the wrestling board game, it was the shit.
the cartoon was on tv a few years ago, as some other name.
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the_z
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Joined: Wed Jan 25, 2006 12:05 am
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I had tons and tons of these guys...funny now looking back because at the time I had no clue about where the influences for the designs came from. Now I look back and it's like "Oh yeah..."
Anyway, did anyone else have that ring where you kind of pinched a MUSCLE guy in on each side and then moved them around trying to pop the other guy off? The trick was finding the right figure that couldn't be popped off...loved that thing...
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gabbagabba
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Joined: Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:06 am
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I've got some cool Japanese painted muscle guys. Same molds as the old ones. They came with a mystery unpainted one in the pack.
I used to buy the old ones up at flea markets for cheap and custom paint them.
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Nostromo
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Joined: Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:00 am
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Location: Houston, Texas
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Kinnikuman!!
HUZZAH!!
Loves me this stuff. Gotta go teach class right now, but taking look at this:
http://www.kinnikuman.com/akia/index.htm
Enjoy!
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keiboba
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Joined: Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:34 am
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Location: Rockford, MI
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My brother and I had the MUSCLE wrestling ring. You are so right about the trick to knock the other one out. Man Maz, this brings back serious memories. You just lit another collecting fire!
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