yayyyy! finally this guy is coming! looks awesome. Gargamel never lets down.

ok, just to be a stick in the mud, how many figs have Gargamel produced that are not based on an existing toy/bootleg?

Gacha-mecha.
Bakobaso (but it is based on an illustration).
Cigarette guy.
All of the fight figures.

I thought the fights were all based on a pre-existing character, just "stylized" for fight purposes.

definetly different look compared to gargamels other guys. but i dig it. maybe this means that the standard mightin is coming too.

Ojo Rojo
Killer (Whalegator)

Eaton?

gargamess is based on gomess. i've heard somewhere that gameppa is based on gamera, which i'm taking as being a very loose basing. and also, gargadeath was based on the lead guy from napalm death.....don't know about the rest....

cumberlain is based off of the monster from it conquered the world

Learn something new every day.

and i just found a new movie to add to my netflix queue.

update: netflix doesn't have this. damn. does it possibly have an alternative title?

as far as i know that is the only name it goes under
there is a remake called, zontar, the thing from venus, but the monsters are different

well, if anyone knows where i can track this down on dvd, let me know. this screen shot has got me excited!

PK had a figure of the original Cumberlain.



Not 100% Gargamel though for either of them.



Theres an illustration in the Pencil Fight magazine from a while back. Again, not 100% Gargamel.

I'm not picking a fight about it, I just find it strange that they've not come up with an original character. Unless that is their deal.

I always assumed it was their deal. Kinda of has a charm to it, they don't so much seem to want to create new stuff as much as play on past designs that were under rated and glorify them. Gargamel's like the worlds greatest cover band of toys.

I don't really care if it's based on something else or not, Rokuron looks really promising from sculpt to paint. Kind of wish there was a bit more articulation, but it looks like that would be troublesome at the neck. With the right color scheme, this is a WANT.


Great quote BD!

I'm not picking a fight about it, I just find it strange that they've not come up with an original character. Unless that is their deal.

I like gargamel toys but I think that's a valid question. I've sometimes wondered why they aren't interested in producing or trying their hands at more original undefined sculpts.

They have such a good system already but it'd be kind of cool to see a 100% brand new original figure.

Why fix what's not busted, though? M1 only does repros/existing characters and so do a lot of companies. I like what they do, and wouldn't reject new ideas, but I don't respect them any less or feel the want for something original. There's so many untapped existing ideas that can be Gargameled up and represented that it seems useless and almost vain to just go ahead and do something original JUST for the sake of it.

This is a good discussion, though. Good to see what others feel on it.

I agree..don't fix was it not broken but it'd be nice to hear from the gargamel guys. Maybe they aren't interested? Maybe they've tried but the result didn't look up to par. etc.

Looks good, but I'm not crazy about this colourway. Would like to see something more colourful.
For some reason this reminds me somewhat of the Bat villain toy from Kamen Riders.

Well Koji did the Tokoji Seijin and I thought Chanmen designed the Eaton. I think they're both considered part of Gargamel.

Yeah but those are more part of the artist series I think along with Ojo and Globby. Though both dudes are part of Gargamel, I think these are presented as solo works showing them both off as individual artists, hence the higher prices like the others in the series.

Tokoji Seijin was a nod to Kappa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_(folklore)

Eaton was designed by Kiyoka, I believe.

I didn't lump the artist collaborations with the original Gargamel toys, since they represent a joint effort.

So were the fight figures based on actual toys, or just derived from the likenesses of Ultra kaiju?

Hey, anyone know of any good books on Japanese mythology. Now see this Tokoji reference, I would like to learn some more on Eastern mythological characters. Going through primary school in the West, the concentration is on Roman and Greek myth.