Nice thread resurrection. I kept looking at those clear green ones on Mandarake, then I saw they were gone, little knowing that it was all folk on here who picked em up.Nice.

I've recently added a few more to the collection, including the Dino headed guys.

It is indeed a shame KJ gave it up. But at this rate, maybe well see some more? I'd love to see a series of blanks in various color transparent clears. Like the bemon clears. We already have clear, and transparent blue ..... Clear red, orange, yellow, black, green and pink would be sweet...

Maybe after the few that come in from Mandarake you can post a pic or two of your complete collection of Sarumon's

If all mine weren't in storage I would post a collection pic. I have quite a few. Always looking for me.

How many "standard" releases are there anyway? Mostly what I see these days are all the one-offs. And as cool as some of them are, I wouldn't even know where to begin to try and collect all of the regular issues out there.

That's a good question. I have no idea how many there were.

There were a lot of customs and one-offs. Killer J would release a series of blind-bag one-offs all painted by him. There was also a large blind-bag custom series by other artists. I ended up with one painted by LASH from that series. As far as runs I don't recall there being that many but can't remember the order.


Here's a few I have/had over the lifespan of Sarumon...



LASH custom


Lamour Supreme custom

Well Grumble toy had 3 versions and then mandarake had that glow/pink and the rumble monsters.

Yeah, three from Grumble, at least one from Mandarake and the initial standard release with Rumble Monsters. At least I think the RM edition is the first non-HP release. If I can muster the time I will try and snag some photo's somewhere and maybe start a visual checklist.

Hopefully we can inspire J to get back on the horse here

You guys should just email J and ask him direct. He was very easy to talk to and responds well to requests.

killerj113@yahoo.co.jp

And if that doesn't work, threats

Hey whatever works

I emailed him a month or two ago and all he said was " I don't make toy anymore, sorry".

Long time no see,Guys.
Thank you for some of you still have talking with my toys.

Here is some release history of my sarumon.

1.Rumble Monsters painted ver.,
2.1st Handpaint ver.,
3.Artist Custom Lucky Bag ver.,
4.Cronic painted ver.,
5.Cronic painted Secret ver.,
6.Tokyo 1 week ver.,
7.Cronic Handpaint ver.,
8.Grumble Toy ver.A,
9.Grumble Toy ver.B,
10.Grumble Toy unpaint ver.,
11.Handpaint for Grumble Toy ver.,
12.Mandarake GID ver.,
13.Handpaint for Mandarake ver.,
14.One.up. ver.,
15.Kaiju Chronicle ver.,
16.Mishka ver.,
17.AUXPEER ver.,
18.Pink unpaint ver.,
19.New Year Handpaint ver.,
20.Flesh unpaint ver.,
21.Orange unpaint ver.,
22.GID unpaint ver.,
23.Light Blue unpaint ver.,
24.Hawaii ver.,
25.MAN ver.,
26.M1GO Handpaint ver.

lots of handpaints here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kj-cs/

Awesome, thanks J!

27. White unpainted

Thanks for chiming in J. Good to hear from you. We hope you reconsider getting back into producing toys. You have some real supporters here

We announced our Killer J exclusives a year ago, time flies. anyways we knocked $20 off the price for anyone on the fence about them.

http://www.nakamatoys.com/products/kill ... ve-sagiran

http://www.nakamatoys.com/products/kill ... sive-goran

1/1 from 2011 lucky bags.

These 1 offs where killer Js apex. After this it all fell apart.

Mob rules. Then mob turns on and eats itself

So no one gives a shit about Sarumon these days, but here are pics of my new 1-off (also from 2011 lucky bags) that is forcing the first out of the collection:

LOL. Blast from the past! Good looking toy.

You know I still have my GID version (regular release). I think I tried selling it (to make room) but had no takers at $40, so I said fuck it and kept it. I'm actually glad I did, because it still has appeal and is different from the other glow toys I have.

that one is great! the paint job really brings the sculpt to life

Yeah, that is a really nice one off. Congrats on a great buy there Yuck. Strange to bring this thread back to life, but I am happy you did. And such a nice glow paint application too.

So, have you got enough GID toys now to light up your entire house?