Can I ask what drives up the price on these toys? Are they ultra rare?
Can you give a ballpark of what they would fetch in an auction?

yeah yeah yeah.

They are ultra rare Bullmarks from the 70s. The offers I have had for these have been in the 5 figures, and that's for each of them.

i think my king beats your pair

are you happy jim?

Jeebus. Thank you for sharing.
Incredible.

That looks amazing ! How tall is that and the kanegon?

Damn, that thing is ridiculous.

somewhere around 4 feet tall.

Wow! Rory, that Red King is a Popy store display, right? I've seen the smaller ones:

Salesmans sample for a store display. Popy.

Wow, I wonder how they were doing the "shrinky-dink" process for those back in the 70s. 3-D pantograph machines? That chemical shrinkage process? These are the questions that keep me awake at night.

dude - its joints are caulked.

perhaps your vision is caulked. It is greyish vinyl.

Roger's facial hair might be the precious thing posted thus far...

Oh, how I miss it...

I have the goatee encased in lucite.

PM with offers.

I'm merely as god made me.

id be curious to see the detail differences between the displays and the salesmans tool.

wow...i just came back here to this thread. those things are fuckin' huge. amazing pieces...wow.

do you have any more pics of the green or the gold?

Unfortunately I have only one other pic, the two of them in the station wagon:



The other guy with me in the first pic I posted is Tadayuki from M1GO. He picked me up in Niigata and took me to Kodomo no Jidaikan (Yuji's toy museum), where the Red Kings were going to be stored.

Wow, that was about four years ago now. Time flies.

Here's a big expensive item they had in the exhibit, a Bullmark Jirass store display. It's about 4-5 feet tall:



I'm trying to think of the largest and most expensive toys I have, but I really don't have anything bigger than a Bullmark Giant Size Godzilla reissue, or anything pricey that's Japanese. Pretty lame, huh?

the green ones vinyl looks lo like brown. was that what you remember?thank you for showing me the pics as ive only seen my salsmans sample . ive heard the regular ones where green and gold but never saw them.i just measured mine and its almost 40 inches tall. not quite 4 feet .

I really don't remember details about colors, so the pics are the best record.

When I was in the art-bronze industry in the 90's, there were still plenty of artists who pointed down (or up) sculptures by hand using simple measuring tools such as calipers and then resculpting to their size calculations.

Sounds crazy implausible, I know, but that's only 'cause we's all so spoiled (already) by technology.