Arrrrrrrgh! Well I missed out on two toys I REALLY wanted today, this is the second time Tokyobuyers has blundered (and a major one--they entered the wrong amount for my max bid, which was well above the winning bidders). I remembered that someone posted a pic of their magnet-headed dinos, and I stumbled on two auctions a few days ago. Can someone please tell me a little bit more about magnet-headed dinos?

Are they hard to come by?
What is a "normal" price range for them?
These were made by Nakajima.


Ending Price: 3433 yen
Auction Description:
Expression can be replaced neck Soft Vinyl Monster Magnet SEISAKUSHO Nakajima [pre-owned]

Possible replacement neck NAKAJIMA SEISAKUSHO expression Magnet] [Soft Vinyl Monster pre-owned beauty products.
Soft Vinyl Old monsters (dinosaurs?).
I wear it with dirt and small scratches and wear, please understand they are tender.
I am smarting over the red dino

and...

Ending Price: 8850 yen
Auction Description:
Title:Expression can be replaced neck Nakajima Seisakusho Magnet Dinosaur Soft Vinyl] [pre-owned]

Possible replacement neck NAKAJIMA SEISAKUSHO expression Magnet] [Soft Vinyl is near mint owned dinosaurs.
Simple and can be replaced with other parts of the neck at the neck portion of the magnet.
I wear it with dirt and small scratches and wear, please understand they are tender.

Any info would be greatly appreciated!

I was watching these also, and was *this* close to bidding on these. Unfortunately, I had to let them pass. That first one is great!

These are especially cool, because this isn't the only example of magnets in vinyl that they did. The special Groizer one is similar. I wonder what else they did in this fashion.

wow . i paid more than that for mine . somebody got a really good deal . check out the thread on dinosaurs that was done a while back . nakajima also did light up dinos too .

that first one is too cool.

Yeah, I really need to track down that magnetic Groizer, Myles. I had a chance on one a while back, but passed because it wasn't minty enough for my tastes.

Ah, so foolish!

There is also a magnet gaiking.

There were a few magnemo super robots, weren't there, Brian? Danguard Ace...maybe Combattra?

But they were Popy, right? Not Nakajima?

Those magnet dinos are soooo great! I imagine they are pretty tough to find.

The Gaiking is Popy, not sure on the others as I do not have them. That is a question for Sjoen.

Alen Rambled about the magnetic Combattler V & Gaiking a few years back:

http://toyboxdx.com/ramble/?p=3

Good call, Matt...was trying to look for that fucking article...just couldn't find it! Thanks!

Love that Rumble. I've only seen the Gaiking and Combattler as well in terms of the Bandai magnemo sofubi.

If we're talking magnetic vinyl here is grail:



Nakajima Groizer X

The SUPER mac daddy is the Poem Govarian brogged about here by yours truely:

http://toyboxdx.com/brog/?p=632

Are there others we have not covered here?

So technically the Gaiking is Bandai. I want that toy badly.

very cool toy erik but it looks like it could use a little out of the box time .

this is what the original packaging looks like .

Damn that is cool! Thanks for posting that link!

Saw at least one auction on YJA for one of Mr. H's magnets. The babelfish translator made a hash of the description that sounded halfway between mysticism and physics. I passed on utterly baffled. Too bad, because they seem to be really awesome toys!