By B-Club (Bear Model) ...
This was a potential submission for the Super7 "Imagery of Japanese Toys" show to be held on April 18, but decided against it...
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Thursday, April 09, 2009
Kaijujitsu: Kanegon カネゴン ブルマァク ウルトラQ
By B-Club (Bear Model) ...
This was a potential submission for the Super7 "Imagery of Japanese Toys" show to be held on April 18, but decided against it...
(All photos copyright © Geozilla Omni-Monster 2009)
Friday, May 23, 2008
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Godzilla M1Go Bullmark 2nd Period Version (M1号 ブルマァクタイプ ゴジラ 2期)
Enjoy the show!
This is the "green" version that was released at a museum exhibition in Japan on October 8, 2006. Limited edition of 70.
Interesting article regarding origin of this sculpt here.
10月8日 新潟県柏崎市 こどもの時代館 【第5回 風の丘秋祭り】 にて 昭和ゴジラシリーズ。
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Kanegon by Bullmark カネゴン ブルマァク ウルトラQ
This is a Bullmark reproduction figure. Dark blue vinyl with lighter metallic blue spray and red and silver highlights. Standard size.
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Kanegon カネゴン first appeared in the Japanese TV series Ultra Q ウルトラQ, and is perhaps one of the most famous and iconic monsters from the Ultra Q show. The Ultra Q episode was entitled “Kanegon’s Cocoon” and aired in April 1966 (Episode 15).
The Kanegon story is somewhat surreal and whimsical. Very briefly: a greedy, money-loving boy wakes up transformed into the money-eating, human-sized, creature, Kanegon... a strange combination of shellfish and coin purse, complete with a zipper mouth and a coin counter on its chest. Kanegon has to keep eating coins to keep the counter from getting down to 0, or he will die. After going through a number of trials and tribulations, the boy/Kanegon apparently learns his lesson and he is transformed back into a boy. However, upon returning home, he discovers his parents are now Kanegons!
カネゴンとは、特撮テレビ番組『ウルトラQ』に登場した架空の怪獣。別名「コイン快獣」。硬貨を食べ続けないと死んでしまう。 その特徴的な容姿とあまりにストレートなネーミングから、日本では非常に知名度の高い怪獣であり、『ウルトラQ』をリアルタイムで知らない世代にもよく知られている。 デザインモチーフは貝、飛び出した目玉、頭部形状、皮膚の質感に特徴が見られるが、元々の貨幣が貝であった事から着想されたと思われる。
ウルトラQに登場したカネゴン
『ウルトラQ』第15話「カネゴンの繭」に登場。 身長：2メートル 体重：200キログラム 金の亡者の少年・加根田金男が偶然見つけたカネゴンの繭によって変身した怪獣。 外見は、頭部は一見カエルのようで、口はファスナーの付いたがま口、目はぴょこんと細長く飛び出ていて目玉はギラギラ（怒ると煙を噴出する）、胸にはレジスターが付いていて、全身は銅でできた鎧をまとったような姿形（火星人と形容される）であった。 主食は硬貨とお札。1日に必要な額は3,510円（当時）。胸のレジスターのカウンターに体内の金額が表示され、それがゼロになると死んでしまうので、お金を食べつづけたが、カネゴンに与えてお金がなくなった友人に売られそうになり逃げ出し、ついに銀行の金を食らうに至る。騒動の末に祈祷師のかなり無茶な予言を実行させた所、元に戻った。しかし、他人の落としたお金をそのまま自分のものにしてしまった金男の両親がカネゴンと化す。
Kanegon, the overhead monstrous beast which to special 撮 television program 'ultra Q' appears. Alias "coin it is pleasant the animal". Unless it continues to eat the coin, it dies.
That feature figure it is the monstrous beast whose straight from naming, in Japan degree of distinction is very high excessively, 'it is well known to also the generation who does not know ultra Q' in real time. Design motif the shellfish and the eyeball which springs out, head form, feature is seen in material feeling of the skin, but it is thought that it was conceived from the fact that the originally money is the shellfish.
Kanegon which appears to ultra Q
'"Cocoon of ultra Q' 15th story in [kanegon]" appearance.
Height: 2 meters Weight: 200 kilograms
The monstrous beast which changes with the cocoon of [kanegon] which the boy adding root rice field Kin man of the fanatic of the gold finds accidentally.
As for appearance, as for the head with like the glance frog, as for the mouth the purse where the fastener is attached, as for the eye to be long having projected bouncingly, as for the eyeball when (you get angry glaringly, gushes the smoke), the register having been attached to the chest, as for the entire body, the form kind of shape which the armor which it is possible with the copper the [ma] is taken (Mars person is modified) was. Staple food the coin is distant the bill. The amount which is necessary for the 1st 3,510 Yen (at that time). The amount of internal to be indicated in the counter of the register of the chest, when that becomes zero, because it dies, it continued to eat the money, but giving to [kanegon], it may be sold it becomes in the friend there not to be a money and escapes, finally receiving the gold of the bank reaches the point of. The place where considerably unreasonable prediction of the faith curer was made to execute on end of the disturbance, it returned to the origin. But, the parents of the Kin man who designates the money which others dropped that way as their own ones convert [kanegon].
[Sources: Wikipedia. Original Japanese and auto-translated text.]
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Photos above © 2006 Geozilla Omni-Monster. All rights reserved.
Kanegon カネゴン first appeared in the Japanese TV series Ultra Q ウルトラQ, and is perhaps one of the most famous and iconic monsters from the Ultra Q show. The Ultra Q episode was entitled “Kanegon’s Cocoon” and aired in April 1966 (Episode 15).
The Kanegon story is somewhat surreal and whimsical. Very briefly: a greedy, money-loving boy wakes up transformed into the money-eating, human-sized, creature, Kanegon... a strange combination of shellfish and coin purse, complete with a zipper mouth and a coin counter on its chest. Kanegon has to keep eating coins to keep the counter from getting down to 0, or he will die. After going through a number of trials and tribulations, the boy/Kanegon apparently learns his lesson and he is transformed back into a boy. However, upon returning home, he discovers his parents are now Kanegons!
カネゴンとは、特撮テレビ番組『ウルトラQ』に登場した架空の怪獣。別名「コイン快獣」。硬貨を食べ続けないと死んでしまう。 その特徴的な容姿とあまりにストレートなネーミングから、日本では非常に知名度の高い怪獣であり、『ウルトラQ』をリアルタイムで知らない世代にもよく知られている。 デザインモチーフは貝、飛び出した目玉、頭部形状、皮膚の質感に特徴が見られるが、元々の貨幣が貝であった事から着想されたと思われる。
ウルトラQに登場したカネゴン
『ウルトラQ』第15話「カネゴンの繭」に登場。 身長：2メートル 体重：200キログラム 金の亡者の少年・加根田金男が偶然見つけたカネゴンの繭によって変身した怪獣。 外見は、頭部は一見カエルのようで、口はファスナーの付いたがま口、目はぴょこんと細長く飛び出ていて目玉はギラギラ（怒ると煙を噴出する）、胸にはレジスターが付いていて、全身は銅でできた鎧をまとったような姿形（火星人と形容される）であった。 主食は硬貨とお札。1日に必要な額は3,510円（当時）。胸のレジスターのカウンターに体内の金額が表示され、それがゼロになると死んでしまうので、お金を食べつづけたが、カネゴンに与えてお金がなくなった友人に売られそうになり逃げ出し、ついに銀行の金を食らうに至る。騒動の末に祈祷師のかなり無茶な予言を実行させた所、元に戻った。しかし、他人の落としたお金をそのまま自分のものにしてしまった金男の両親がカネゴンと化す。
Kanegon, the overhead monstrous beast which to special 撮 television program 'ultra Q' appears. Alias "coin it is pleasant the animal". Unless it continues to eat the coin, it dies.
That feature figure it is the monstrous beast whose straight from naming, in Japan degree of distinction is very high excessively, 'it is well known to also the generation who does not know ultra Q' in real time. Design motif the shellfish and the eyeball which springs out, head form, feature is seen in material feeling of the skin, but it is thought that it was conceived from the fact that the originally money is the shellfish.
Kanegon which appears to ultra Q
'"Cocoon of ultra Q' 15th story in [kanegon]" appearance.
Height: 2 meters Weight: 200 kilograms
The monstrous beast which changes with the cocoon of [kanegon] which the boy adding root rice field Kin man of the fanatic of the gold finds accidentally.
As for appearance, as for the head with like the glance frog, as for the mouth the purse where the fastener is attached, as for the eye to be long having projected bouncingly, as for the eyeball when (you get angry glaringly, gushes the smoke), the register having been attached to the chest, as for the entire body, the form kind of shape which the armor which it is possible with the copper the [ma] is taken (Mars person is modified) was. Staple food the coin is distant the bill. The amount which is necessary for the 1st 3,510 Yen (at that time). The amount of internal to be indicated in the counter of the register of the chest, when that becomes zero, because it dies, it continued to eat the money, but giving to [kanegon], it may be sold it becomes in the friend there not to be a money and escapes, finally receiving the gold of the bank reaches the point of. The place where considerably unreasonable prediction of the faith curer was made to execute on end of the disturbance, it returned to the origin. But, the parents of the Kin man who designates the money which others dropped that way as their own ones convert [kanegon].
[Sources: Wikipedia. Original Japanese and auto-translated text.]
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Giant Garuban ガルバン by Bullmark ブルマァク
I am sure others have noticed that the sculpt, paint, and color palette of the Alien In Bus (see prior post) is very similar to that of the Garuban (also orange vinyl with metallic paints). The Garuban is "giant" sized: 12+ inches tall. Both the Alien In Bus and the Garaban are beautiful figures!
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Garuban appeared in the 1967 live-action show called "Captain Ultra." (Episode 3, Magnetic Monstrous Beast) (磁石怪獣ガルバンあらわる ガルバン) （1967.4.30）
「キャプテンウルトラ」登場 ガルバン
ガルバン キャプテンウルトラ成形色・青/ソフ トビニール製フィギュア/オレンジ/
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Garuban appeared in the 1967 live-action show called "Captain Ultra." (Episode 3, Magnetic Monstrous Beast) (磁石怪獣ガルバンあらわる ガルバン) （1967.4.30）
「キャプテンウルトラ」登場 ガルバン
ガルバン キャプテンウルトラ成形色・青/ソフ トビニール製フィギュア/オレンジ/
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007
M1Go GID Gezora ゲゾラ
M1 Go reissue of the Bullmark Gezora (Toho edition). This is a standard size glow in the dark vinyl version, limited to 100 figures worldwide. Issued in February 2006.
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Gezora, a giant cuttlefish (octopus, squid), appeared in the tokusatsu science fiction film "Space Amoeba" or "Yog: Monster from Space" (南海の大怪獣 - Giant Monsters of the South Seas). The film was produced and released by Toho Studios in 1970. This was one of director Ishirō Honda's last kaiju movies, and the first kaiju movie made by Toho after the death of special-effects director Eiji Tsuburaya. Teruyoshi Nakano did the special effects for this film. [Source: Wikipedia]
In the movie, an alien force comes to Earth on a returning spaceship, intent on world conquest and using giant monsters as its tools, first Gezora, then the turtle-like Kamoebas and the giant crab, Ganimes. Over the course of the monster battles, it is revealed that Gezora can be hurt by ultrasonic frequencies. One notable thing about the movie, is that although the monsters are giant, they are smaller-scaled than in movies like Godzilla. This smaller scale allows more intimacy and realism in the attacks by the monsters on humans and their villages, and the humans' response as they fight back against the monsters.
[Promotional poster © 1943-2007 Toho Co. Ltd. and its related entities. All rights reserved.]
スタンダードサイズ 蓄光成型 ブルマァク復刻 ゲゾラ
南海の大怪獣
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Gezora, a giant cuttlefish (octopus, squid), appeared in the tokusatsu science fiction film "Space Amoeba" or "Yog: Monster from Space" (南海の大怪獣 - Giant Monsters of the South Seas). The film was produced and released by Toho Studios in 1970. This was one of director Ishirō Honda's last kaiju movies, and the first kaiju movie made by Toho after the death of special-effects director Eiji Tsuburaya. Teruyoshi Nakano did the special effects for this film. [Source: Wikipedia]
In the movie, an alien force comes to Earth on a returning spaceship, intent on world conquest and using giant monsters as its tools, first Gezora, then the turtle-like Kamoebas and the giant crab, Ganimes. Over the course of the monster battles, it is revealed that Gezora can be hurt by ultrasonic frequencies. One notable thing about the movie, is that although the monsters are giant, they are smaller-scaled than in movies like Godzilla. This smaller scale allows more intimacy and realism in the attacks by the monsters on humans and their villages, and the humans' response as they fight back against the monsters.
[Promotional poster © 1943-2007 Toho Co. Ltd. and its related entities. All rights reserved.]
スタンダードサイズ 蓄光成型 ブルマァク復刻 ゲゾラ
南海の大怪獣
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
M1Go Hedorah (M1号オリジナルカラー)
M1 Go Hedorah. Standard size. This is the original M1 Go red vinyl edition released in 2005. The sculpt is based on the vintage Bullmark Hedorah figure.
Hedorah (ヘドラ Hedora), also known as the "Smog Monster," is a fictional creature from the 1971 film "Godzilla vs. Hedorah" (titled "Godzilla vs the Smog Monster" in the U.S.). The monster was named for hedoro (ヘドロ), the Japanese word for sludge, vomit, slime or chemical ooze.
Hedorah is a monster from outer space who fed on pollution. In its first form, it resembled a tadpole. In its second form, it resembled a quadrupedal reptile. Its third form was like a flying saucer, and its final form took on a humanoid shape (the M1Go figure here shows the monster in its final form).
Hedorah was a very powerful Kaiju, perhaps one of the strongest opponents Godzilla faced. Hedorah possessed many special abilities. Hedorah's primary forms of attack were to squirt chunks of its own acidic body at its opponent, and to shoot a red laser beam from its eye.
In its flying form, Hedorah was also able to fly, and spread a mist of sulphuric acid as it went along, and in its final form it could revert back to its flying form at will.
Hedorah's defensive capabilities were very strong as well. Hedorah was completely immune to Godzilla's atomic breath, and conventional weapons would just pass straight through Hedorah's body. When Godzilla would try to tear into Hedorah's body, this proved ineffective as well, resulting in the flesh on Godzilla's paw dissolving all the way down to the bone. Only Hedorah's eyes seem to be affected by his own liquid sludge.
As far as intelligence, Hedorah seemed curious and easily fell into traps; he also seemed to know when his opponent was too strong for him.
[Source: Adapted from Wikipedia.]
[Note: Hedorah figures have been produced in many forms by many different toy manufacturers. Some of the other versions will be featured here in the future.]
Ｍ１号 ブルマァク ヘドラ
ブルマァク復刻 ヘドラ : 赤成型色
M1号オリジナルカラー
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m1go bullmark hedorah ブルマァク ヘドラ
Hedorah (ヘドラ Hedora), also known as the "Smog Monster," is a fictional creature from the 1971 film "Godzilla vs. Hedorah" (titled "Godzilla vs the Smog Monster" in the U.S.). The monster was named for hedoro (ヘドロ), the Japanese word for sludge, vomit, slime or chemical ooze.
Hedorah is a monster from outer space who fed on pollution. In its first form, it resembled a tadpole. In its second form, it resembled a quadrupedal reptile. Its third form was like a flying saucer, and its final form took on a humanoid shape (the M1Go figure here shows the monster in its final form).
Hedorah was a very powerful Kaiju, perhaps one of the strongest opponents Godzilla faced. Hedorah possessed many special abilities. Hedorah's primary forms of attack were to squirt chunks of its own acidic body at its opponent, and to shoot a red laser beam from its eye.
In its flying form, Hedorah was also able to fly, and spread a mist of sulphuric acid as it went along, and in its final form it could revert back to its flying form at will.
Hedorah's defensive capabilities were very strong as well. Hedorah was completely immune to Godzilla's atomic breath, and conventional weapons would just pass straight through Hedorah's body. When Godzilla would try to tear into Hedorah's body, this proved ineffective as well, resulting in the flesh on Godzilla's paw dissolving all the way down to the bone. Only Hedorah's eyes seem to be affected by his own liquid sludge.
As far as intelligence, Hedorah seemed curious and easily fell into traps; he also seemed to know when his opponent was too strong for him.
[Source: Adapted from Wikipedia.]
[Note: Hedorah figures have been produced in many forms by many different toy manufacturers. Some of the other versions will be featured here in the future.]
Ｍ１号 ブルマァク ヘドラ
ブルマァク復刻 ヘドラ : 赤成型色
M1号オリジナルカラー
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m1go bullmark hedorah ブルマァク ヘドラ
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Mystellar Seijin
Mystellar Seijin is a alien from another world that appeared in the Ultraman Jack TV series. The version in the photos is a B-Club reproduction of the original Bullmark figure. (Standard size about 9 inches tall.)
First Appearance: The Ultraman Who Returned: Space Warriors, Your Name is M.A.T. (1973)
There were apparently two Mystellar Seijins that appeared in the Ultraman Jack, one "good" and one "evil."
I think these facts and figures about the Mystellar are correct:
Powers:
Cannon - The Mystellar 'trunks' can fire out blasts of energy that can cause small explosions. Only the evil one has shown this ability.
Mind Control - The Mystellar can take control of a being's mind and have them do their biddings. Only the evil one has shown this ability.
Growth - The Mystellar can increase their sizes from that of a human to that of a massive creature (164 feet tall).
Disguise - The Mystellar can disguise themselves as a human when they want to.
ミステラー星人（善，悪） 斯泰拉星人（好、坏）ブルマァク
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First Appearance: The Ultraman Who Returned: Space Warriors, Your Name is M.A.T. (1973)
There were apparently two Mystellar Seijins that appeared in the Ultraman Jack, one "good" and one "evil."
I think these facts and figures about the Mystellar are correct:
Powers:
Cannon - The Mystellar 'trunks' can fire out blasts of energy that can cause small explosions. Only the evil one has shown this ability.
Mind Control - The Mystellar can take control of a being's mind and have them do their biddings. Only the evil one has shown this ability.
Growth - The Mystellar can increase their sizes from that of a human to that of a massive creature (164 feet tall).
Disguise - The Mystellar can disguise themselves as a human when they want to.
ミステラー星人（善，悪） 斯泰拉星人（好、坏）ブルマァク
Photos © 2006 Geozilla Omni-Monster. All rights reserved.
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Bullmark Metron Seijin from Ultraseven
Metron Seijin is a villain character from the Japanese TV show UltraSeven. This standard size figure (about 9 inches tall) was released by Bullmark in 1971. This was one of the very first Japanese vinyl figures in my collection. A much-prized piece of vintage kaiju! (More about Bullmark and Ultraseven below.)
About Bullmark:
“In 1969/70, Bullmark got the license from Marusan to do the Toho Kaiju. From this point until the mid-late 1970s, Bullmark released a wide variety of vinyl toys, in four different sizes, and including a number of Marusan reissues, albeit with different paint schemes. In addition to vinyl figures, Bullmark also released Die-Cast and tin toys. Many Bullmark vinyl figures come in multiple paint variations as well.” [Source: Club Tokyo.]
“The company was also known simply as Bull by many people due to their logo of a bull which was stamped on the bottoms of the feet of many of their toys. Bullmark went out of business in 1977.” [Source: Wikipedia.]
About Ultraseven:
Ultraseven aired on Japanese TV in 1967. The show was created by Eiji Tsuburaya as a follow-up to Ultraman, and perhaps as Japan's answer to Star Trek: The Original Series.
Ultraseven is sometimes incorrectly called "Ultraman Seven." [Source: Wikipedia.]
Photos © 2006 Geozilla Omni-Monster. All rights reserved.
About Bullmark:
“In 1969/70, Bullmark got the license from Marusan to do the Toho Kaiju. From this point until the mid-late 1970s, Bullmark released a wide variety of vinyl toys, in four different sizes, and including a number of Marusan reissues, albeit with different paint schemes. In addition to vinyl figures, Bullmark also released Die-Cast and tin toys. Many Bullmark vinyl figures come in multiple paint variations as well.” [Source: Club Tokyo.]
“The company was also known simply as Bull by many people due to their logo of a bull which was stamped on the bottoms of the feet of many of their toys. Bullmark went out of business in 1977.” [Source: Wikipedia.]
About Ultraseven:
Ultraseven aired on Japanese TV in 1967. The show was created by Eiji Tsuburaya as a follow-up to Ultraman, and perhaps as Japan's answer to Star Trek: The Original Series.
Ultraseven is sometimes incorrectly called "Ultraman Seven." [Source: Wikipedia.]
Photos © 2006 Geozilla Omni-Monster. All rights reserved.
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