An impressive trio!

^agreed^ amazing score !

Wow those are nice! Usually contemporary clear vinyl toys make me go 'meh'.... but god damn it looks good vintage.

Finally found a Takatoku clear Kikaida. I've wanted one for awhile but they would always go a little too high on YJA and then none showed up for the longest time. Mandarake actually listed this as an auction on ebay and the end time was something like 6am EST (I'm a very early riser). Luckily won with no other bids besides the initial and pretty cheap. I debated keeping it in the bag but I'm 'not' that kind of collector.





No tinsel inside though

Just seeing your shadow study for the first time. Nice ones, man!

And congrats on the new pick-up, Chris. Looks like he survived the ages very well.

That is a lovely Kikaida, great pickup! Really nice clear vinyl and some nice paint on him. I can understand the conundrum, but I am happy you decided to open him up and enjoy him after all. That is a bit odd with the tinsel, but at least now we know that some of them came like that straight from the shop - it always seemed to me unlikely that kids had removed it. It was probably a manufacturing change done during production at one point, as it became too costly/time consumption to do the inserts, or possibly, they just were clearing out a larger production of the vinyl toys at the end days of the line and just had them put together and sold.

Nice addition - that red really pops.

Condorman - probably hard plastic. Licensed. I need to put together a lightbox to desuckify some of these photos.

That is really cool Andy.

Thanks dude. There are a total of four arm attachments. They really had a thing for giving figures drill arms back in the 70s!

They were looking for oil to keep up with demand. Drill baby drill!

No doubt. 1970s...energy crisis...drills on toys...man it's all starting to come together.

Standard size Mazinger with guts + pipe cleaner inserts.





I believe I've seen one with blue guts. Normally you just see the clear figure - sometimes with guts, but guts + cleaners is super tough.

Nice piece Andy
You are right, there are some with blue pipe cleaner or blue chest and red pipe cleaner.

Cheers, would be cool to see the variations lined up together!

Lovely figure Andy. You are right, I haven't often seen a combination of two together. And I haven't actually been fortunate to check one out in person; what are the guts made of (is it plastic pasrt, or paper similar to other cyborg figures)? I always really loved how the pipe cleaners on these guys were quite narrow, in comparison to the width of the limbs - especially in red it makes it look like they could be arteries/tubes feeding Mazinger his vital fluids. The bubbles on yours give him a really nice effect to the vinyl too. Great figure, congrats man!

just joining the party here y'all

^Nice shot! Great colors.



Cheers. The guts are plastic. I think they're sofubi, but not 100% sure. I agree - the fellow has lots of character - good toy soul.