It is one of the more challenging guys, but probably just because Dustman is always popular, and the Spectreman sets seem to pop up a lot less than others. There are actually two variants, this one came paired with a red Neo-Hedoron, but I just have the one guy.

Great sprays on that one, Steve. Certain PBs suffer a bit for my eyes in that department, not so here. I hope you can find his pollution-laden mate some day,

Time for some more gloriously crude Marmit candy. Really love this toy; simply fantastic sculpt, amazing detail, excellent character, and really nice pastelly colours on light blue vinyl. There isn't anything about him that I don't love. The simple time and patience it must have taken to sculpt all of these tiny bumps on his body, make it work in natural/non-homogeneous fashion while not feeling overwhelming or forced, and to then cast this guy without disrupting the flow - a mastery of sofubi art and technique. Sorry to go on and on, but suffice it to say I really like this toy. As a whole, I just love the chunkiness of the VP line, and Gorosaurus is one of the best.

Giving him a couple different angles here just to show how great he really is, and try and capture some of the personality of a super toy. Hyped dinos and other beasts eat your heart out. It will always be about the classics for me.

Congrats on landing the Miami Vice version, Phteve! Hopefully my turn will come up sooner than later.

My Toho row lacks any flavor of Gorosaurus, I'm sad to admit, and the above is my absolute favorite rendition of the beast.

Totally agree, and here is some more colorful chunkiness!


Marmit Vinyl Paradise Varan (VP-49 - 1997)
(Green, Orange, Glow, Clear Blue, Brown)

I gotta agree with you guys: both that Gorosaurus and the VP Varan are fantastic sculpts. For some reason, the Gorosaurus makes me think of the suit's appearance in The Last Dinosaur, rather than a proper "Gorosaurus" role...but either way, he's great. And while I think Varan should lose a little weight (really, who couldn't???), the head sculpt is intense and awesome!

Such an AWESOME figure with an AWESOME paint scheme

Marmit is awesome. I love the originality, detail and colors. I just wish they were not so hard to find! I feel I have been looking for cryptids and biollantes forever. And the worst part is that as I search for them, I am constantly discovering NEW marmits (new to me) that I did not previously know about. I am afraid that by the time I find the ones I want, I will have spent every dime on the ones I discovered along the way!

Did you say Biollante?!!

Newbie here, so forgive any dumb questions. I am fairly new to kaiju and vinyl. Up until now, I've collected mostly gashapon yokai figures. I have been searching unsuccessfully for some time for Marmit Cryptids, both sets (I assume there are only two anyway). Gashapon figures are so much easier to track down so I am getting frustrated. I am curious to know how rare these are and if there is any place I should be looking besides ebay, yahoo japan, and Mandrake. Also want to find the Moth Man figures and i don't even know how many of those there are. Did Marmit make any other cryptids or monsters from folklore? How often do they come up for sale?

cindy

I can only think of five:

Gray Alien
Hopkinsville Alien
Pascagoula Alien
Flatwoods Monster
Mothman

The first four were first sold about 10 years ago, packaged in folded clear plastic boxes. There may have been one or two versions of the Gray and Hopkinsville Aliens released later. I don't think they made any other versions of the Pascagoula Alien.

The Flatwoods had 2 more versions sold around 2006, one is GID and one is the clear version above. Marmit started producing the Flatwoods again around 2008 and there have been quite a few versions released in the past few years.

Around the same time, they finally made a Mothman. There are 2-3 versions of the Mothman, off the top of my head.

Marmit also made two sets of alien/cryptid finger puppets. The first set comes in both normal color and GID vinyl. These were from around 2003 as well, I believe.

None of them show up very often, unfortunately. I can't think of any other places to check.

EXCELLENT, Jonee! That's exactly the version I have! =)

That is so badass!!!

^ Bonkers!


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^ That's a really nice night pic man, and with the snow also thrown in there really gives a sort of magical effect to it all:)

^ Kind of you to say so. I'm glad that you enjoyed it.

Finally scored the GID version, thanks G


Marmit Nuppeppo by The Moog Image Dump, on Flickr


Nuppeppo glow shot by The Moog Image Dump, on Flickr

^^So awesome!

You're welcome - great pics.

I had to grab this unpainted transforming man when he popped up!

WOW
This a shit transformed man

Don't care how shit you think it is – I like it

I thought he was just an unpainted regular version until he arrived and I put them side by side…

i notice there are many Marmit unpainted vinyl selling on mandarake.
Congrat u managed to get the best one!!