Haha your lucky you didn't win bro I was gonna bug your ass for it! I'm hoping and praying pushead will have a round two at nycc

woohoo!!!

Dammit! Ah well there will be others. Fingers crossed on some sort of battle set in the future. Congrats to the winners!

Congrats to the winners, that was one not to miss :/

from switching to geico???

Congratulations to the lucky few. I really want one of these guys to round out the collection.

^^I would be happy with a chance at just one! Congrats to the chosen ones.

Zilch!

Congrats to the winners! And looking forward to some drool-worthy pics from you, Ian!

Awesome!!!!!!!

^^soo amazing! thats the only version I'd need.

Arrgghhh this is the version I've always envisioned eventually being released, and hoped it would be a lottery. One off damn it! Oh well I can always stare at the pics.

There's no way in hell I'll be able to afford it at whatever ungodly price it will fetch. The pictures are good enough for me this time.

that baby is going to go for MANY pretty pennies

That one is BEAUTIFUL. His paint job on the GID is soooo good.

so, who wants to set the over/under for the winning bid?

First off, amazing piece.

It seems kinda odd to me though that he would continue to sell a few of these on auction sites from time to time. Everyone is going to see the crazy prices they sell for and then try to buy 1 to flip. This seems very much against his viewpoints on flipping toys.

I understand that this is a rare case for mostly 1 off or special versions of the gorillas and this is is just my opinion based on past releases and the viewpoints expressed in his blog posts. I in no way am telling him how to sell his toys.

All that said I'd love to own this guy(and many other versions), would never flip a gorilla, and understand this is a rare/special case.

I also think it is really weird for him to be selling in an auction. Also, we aren't supposed to be talking about active auctions right?

I need a GID gorilla in my collection

He's sold 2 others I can think of as auctions. Mecha bodies- Regular Gorilla heads.

As far as "not talking about auctions" yeah, but uh, this would probably hit the same high ass price whether we talked about it or not. So meh. Right?

1st cyborg gorilla ju was red. There were total of 3 of this variant. 2 were part of the red mecha gorilla ju lotto. The 3rd cyborg piece went up for sale as an auction from HS and sold for 200,000 yen + S&H.

2nd cyborg gorilla ju was blue. There were total of 2 of this variant. 1 was part of the blue mecha gorilla ju lotto. And the 2nd piece went up for auction from HS.

This info was per Hirota-san at the time of these auction sales. This new auction is a 1 off.

He should just make a bunch of 1-offs, sell them for retail through his site, then watch auctions and he can 86 anyone from future sales whenever he sees a 1-off go up for sale.

Nothing against Hirota-san, but I do have to echo animator's thoughts. I don't have anything against him selling on YJA, and of course the one-off aspect is obviously key to consider, but it is without any doubt adding to the hype and demand around these figures.

Seeing as how the new MG2s are coming in, I am curious. They are numbered on the headers, but how about on the figures themselves? I am also wondering about the omake variations, if he is still trying to 'track' them this way. In any case, I am really sad I haven't won even one lottery, but seeing the folk(s) that do get them makes the taste that much more bitter.

The MG2 are numbered on the header only. All omake seem to be different, as far as I can tell.

i just noticed different color eyeballs on the gorilla- possibly different color wrecking balls as well