It Figures!

 This posting daily thing is tougher than I thought. As a result, GOvember suffers.

Saturday was spent as Santa and I visited a friend in the Akiu Onsen district. (You guess which picture is which.)

I did catch a few episodes of Godzilla: the Series, a two-parter with Aliens, not included in this clip.

But...apart from organizing a few boxes, never managed to post anything.

Sunday entailed watching The Mediocre Great Wall with MATT DAMON (spoken in Trey Parker's voice). Not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination but the creatures were cute. At least now we know the real reason behind the construction of the Wall.

I spent much of the day organizing these little figures and had a wrench thrown in my way when my overhead lamp decided to stop glowing and I had to go on a bulb search. By that time, my patience was up so I watched the last two episodes of the game show, Richard Osmond's House of Games and went to bed.

I did complete photographing all my little figures, but my computer acted up.

So now it's Monday evening and I can show off the figures, not in any discernible order.

From the Iwakura Toho Godzilla Tokusatsu Encyclopedia series 1, it's Magma from Gorath.

Who doesn't love a giant walrus?

I also have a Megalunon and Giant Condor from Rodan (I think). 

Too bad, I don't have the colour version. Apparently these were sold along with Orion candy cigarettes!

That's all I have from the very first series, a sequel 1.5 came out shortly thereafter. Starting with the newly hatched Radon/Rodan chowing down on giant bugs.

There appears to be two versions: one eating, one not.

From my favourite non-Kaiju movie, Matango.

A couple of fun guys.

A couple of X-alien invaders.

I also have a see-through Gigan, whose leg doesn't want to attach properly.

That's about it for series 1.5. Thanks to another blogger, I was able to piece together most of the information about Series 2.

Because I don't have a card for this one, I had to do some Googling and it's some old guy who is nursing the severed hand of Frankenstein/Sanda back to life. 

Colour version scammed from the above link.

I have Godzilla playing volleyball with a rock tossed at him by Ebirah. (Only when I took my photo, I didn't have a reference.)

Here's the reference.

Speaking of Ebirah, it must have been rather ubiquitous, I have two.

Two different editions of the same giant Mantis, Kamacuras. One cracking the egg and then the other pecking at the newly hatched Minya.

There's also some more gathering around before daddy (mommy?) Godzilla blasts them.

My guy Angry Anguirus. 

This guy's photos are far superior to mine!

Gezora! 

King Shisa (Caesar).

I'm not even sure this is the same guy.

The deceased Gorosaurus. 

If you want any details on Series 2, click that link. I have a smattering of figures from Series 3, starting with a leaping Baragon who fought the aforementioned Frankenstein.

The plant Goji-hybrid, Biollante.

The bully Gabara.

A couple of Sea Monsters (better known as the Dragon from the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter).

Now I need to find that movie! Easier said than done!

A larval stage of Destroyah.

A trio of triceratops and the Mothra larva.

Speaking of Mothra 3, here we have Ghiddorah chomping on a T-Rex.

And that about wraps it up for my Iwakura Toho Special Effects collection. Now you can see why it took me three days to get this finished. Someday, I'll do the same to the Gamera series!