This is the poorest quality of all the
figures in this batch we've been looking at, the master hand-carved from a
block of margarine . . . I think, maybe, probably!!!
I assume it's one of the monsters from the
long-running Godzilla franchise, but which one is anybody's guess, although; if
you're familiar with the films he'll be easy to ID with that nose spike and the
spinal-ridges, not to mention that he quite deliberately has one humanoid foot
and one combined dino-claw and can-opener?
For all the lack of quality; he's my
favourite of the lot; being made in a luscious, marbled, salmon-pink plastic,
no sign of paint so I'm guessing either a member of a larger play-set, or a
very cheap kiosk type thing?
I'm sure Google would quickly reveal whether
this chap is a giant from the Godzilla
movies, a friend/enemy from Ultra Man
or a character from another Japanese Anime or Manga series, but I don't
care enough to look it up before posting, and I'm writing all these posts away
from the Internet, so if you know, you're one-up on me!
However, whoever he is, he's the best paint
of the lot, and not a bad sculpt, so my second favourite of these after the
dino-monster above. I used to have a bookmark of a Brazilian toy site which I
lost when I changed computers back in late 2011, but that had a big-box
play-set called Phantom or Phantasm (?) where the main
character-figure was a very similar (hooded, black and purple?) sculpt, so this
figure may also be from Brazil?
To be honest, they would all have looked
much better when new and the extreme levels of paint loss on all of them (last
three posts) and the tatty capes are probably testament to their having been
much-loved and played-with by someone , somewhere!
Thanks to Adrian again for letting me
photograph all the figures in the last three posts - Mercator Trading's website.
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