That is a cool figure. He is just begging to be freed from that nasty package though so he can be played with with sword in hand. It is unfortunate you don't get to see many samurai style vinyl figures.

I have been meaning to post this one too, and after talking about him with another boardie, reminded me I should share it here too. This was a really difficult auction to gauge. It is for a rare blue repaint of a Gomora figure that came out as a special release in 1975. It is not often you get to see one of these, but at the same time, that makes it difficult to be certain whether it is genuine or not, as they do tend to have a rather different paint application than normal. The metallic blue is applied liberally on top of a flesh vinyl figure (you can just make this out where the paint has worn on the bottom of the feet).

I don't know the exact history of how these were made, but as far I was aware they were done on [presumbaly leftover] Bullmark figures. This one, though, is clearly an early Marusan body. I have not seen that before. So, that means it could be more rare, has having an earlier already pulled toy from 1966 when these were made, or one should be slightly wary. Judging from the bidding on him though, everything was fine, or people were willing to take a gamble. Not that I suspect anything, just that I have seen repainted vintage figures. No extra description was given for clarification, but I see now going back that the seller later added the note that the blue paint was original, so there you are. I assume other people had also asked about this. Anyways, a really nice chance to own one, and he is in superb shape considering vintage toys. I love seeing him in blue. A pretty rare version of a great kaiju. I enjoyed seeing him come up for sale, even if I wasn't the lucky bidder taking him home this time.