Die-Cast to Jumbos
Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:30 pm
would like to have some opinions here. this is just my dumbass guess . this is just a rating of most difficult to easiest to get though i doubt you could call any of these easy .
1. garada as close to impossible as it gets . just ask tom frank .three known to exsist .
2. lensari never seen one for sale . tom franks is the only one in the states that i know of .
3. rukuron have a fat wallet and a lot of luck and you may get one . this is the one i dream of getting .
4. green ghost extremely rare but not regaded as a great piece . of course i would take one in a heartbeat .
5. kingdan not nearly as popular as doublas and probably less expensive but i would say harder to find .
6. doublas lots of broken examples . probably the most popular character of the bunch .
7 kame bazooka as far as vinyls go it doesnt get much better than this .cant tell how badly i wanted this .
8. spartan very hard to find with the spear . love the way they did the eyes on this guy .
9. taiho buffalo a minitaur with rocket launchers ! whats not to like .
10. hasame jaguar this is one fucking cool looking villian . a big cat with scissors for hands . finishing last in this group is nothing to be ashamed of .
Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:49 pm
I can't comment on rankings but they all sound amazing.
Link to pictures anyone?
Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:59 pm
I think Bonner had a "scale of rarity" floating around somewhere. Maybe an old S7 ish?
Mon Feb 23, 2009 3:17 pm
yeah , you are right hillsy . i think that may be issue 1 of super 7 . that had popy jumbo machinders and villians mixed in . sean also did an excellent article later on the enemies .
Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:14 pm
I'm just happy that the ones I want the most rank at the bottom of the list...some day, some day. Also, in relative terms, how rare is it to get the box with some of these guys. Some of the jumbo box art I've seen is really great.
Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:23 pm
Is the two headed figure one of these jumbo villains?
Pic stolen from one of VV's great threads
Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:25 pm
liquidsky wrote:Is the two headed figure one of these jumbo villains?
That would be #6 on the list, Doublas.
Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:27 pm
thats doublas then hasame jaguar and spartan .
Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:59 pm
They used to routinely update a list on ToyboxDX regarding rarity, but for some reason I just can't find it. I did find this (
http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?1,1 ... msg-143764 ) that lists some known quantities, so at least a few of these can be ranked. I'm sure nekrodave can chime in on this and give you the lowdown.
Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:18 pm
In spite of being the coolest looking one (in my opinion) I feel that I've see many more Doublas Machinders than any other villains for sale over the past few years or so. I think you could even place this one as "easiset" to find, although naturally the term is relative. Such a killer toy.
Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:23 pm
I can't really disagree with that list much at this point, Jim. In the roughly 8 years I've been collecting, I'd say that Kingdan appeared way more often than Dabulas did for the first 4 years, but that has obviously changed in the last 4 years, the last year or two in particular. I might still list Spartan as rarer than Kame Bazooka, but mostly because of how hard it is to get that spear. Otherwise, it's pretty close. But Kame might be the best of the bunch. Man, it's not possible to overstate how friggin' cool that thing is in person.
I think the top four are pretty hard to argue though.
Hmmm. I may have to resurrect that TBDX thread with a more up to date list of known jumbos. I know several things have been discovered since then.
Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:47 am
>I'd say that Kingdan appeared way more often than Dabulas did for the first 4 years
Interesting! I've only been searching the terms "machinder" on Yahoo Japan for the past few years and I don't think I've ever seen that one for sale. So does the recent phoney ebay listing of the Doublas count as another sighting...? ; ) The one that really killed me was the auction with the spikes torn off the legs (over-protective parenting? "You'll poke your eye out!"). Where did that one end up? $5,000 or something? Crazy.
Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:31 pm
Fwiw, I've updated that post on ToyboxDX, but have removed the specimen counts. I've simply lost track over the years.
Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:18 pm
Robert D wrote: So does the recent phoney ebay listing of the Doublas count as another sighting...? ; )
Not to derail the thread but what was the lowdown on that Doublas auction? I was watching it wanting to see some fireworks then it was taken down.
Tue Mar 03, 2009 2:11 pm
I passed on a Lensari last trip to Tokyo. I thought it was more common than it apparently is. Yikes.
Tue Mar 03, 2009 2:43 pm
brian , do you remember how much they were asking for the lensari ?
Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:57 pm
Duban and I were talking about this.. The Doublas is CLEARLY the most common of them all... Either that or the most available. I mean, these things come up far more regularly than the spartan, buffalo etc. Maybe it changes by year, but to be current the Doublas is easily the the most available.. Fuck me if I'm wrong..
Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:50 am
I must go to the wrong places, I have never seen a Doublas for sale.
Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:10 am
There's one on yja right now. Unfortunately I can only be a spectator.
Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:43 am
Baikin wrote:I must go to the wrong places, I have never seen a Doublas for sale.
On the internet Dennis... I think you go to the right places..
Sun Mar 08, 2009 2:14 pm
vintagevinyl wrote:brian , do you remember how much they were asking for the lensari ?
I think it was 12K. The pic of it from Superfestival had a tag hanging from it. I think I saved it...let me dig, and I will post it. The toy was a bit worn, but not broken. Next Superfestival is at the end of April....so maybe it will show up again.
Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:02 pm
Doublas just sold on YJP for 350K..
Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:46 pm
though it sure seems like there have been more doublas auctions than any of the other jumbo machinder
villians the price doesnt seem to have changed much . the demand for this character still seems to be high .
the kame bazooka with box for less money seems to have no takers .
Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:27 pm
Erik Sjoen wrote:Doublas just sold on YJP for 350K..
Erik, what kind of condition was it in?
Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:49 am
saved the pic logang .
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