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Godzilla, Kong, Gamera & Co.: The Kaiju Mega-Thread

Have a slight affection for the character from childhood. I lived in Japan and had an "action figure" (Two points of articulation!!!!!!)
 
I was more of a Shogun Warriors kinda guy.

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I had every one of the robots on that page. I didn't have any combat vehicles. I even had a few of the large figures - Godzilla, Rodan, Raydeen, and Mazinga. I wonder what they would be worth now?
 
DarrenTR1970 said:
I was more of a Shogun Warriors kinda guy.
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I never knew it at the time, but that was a weird toy line -- taking giant robot and kaiju figures from multiple anime series, Godzilla, and even Toei Spider-Man's Leopardon, and mashing them up into a single toy line. (But didn't Transformers start similarly, as a mashup of two or three unrelated Japanese toy lines? Or am I thinking of Gobots?) Good grief, they even had a sub-line of vehicles that included the team vehicles from tokusatsu shows like Gorenger, Kyodain, and Inazuman.

The title was kind of clumsy too. I guess they were riffing on the popularity of James Clavell's Shōgun, the perception that it was just some generically exotic term for a Japanese warrior, but shōgun in modern usage is just the equivalent of "general." Kind of hard to have an army of warriors where everyone's a general.
 
DarrenTR1970 said:
I had every one of the robots on that page. I didn't have any combat vehicles. I even had a few of the large figures - Godzilla, Rodan, Raydeen, and Mazinga. I wonder what they would be worth now?
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Godzilla and the other regular figures are in triple numbers, just the arm of a SW Godzilla has recently sold for $160 (the arm was, of course, in good condition). Rodan is quite rare, and one recently sold on Ebay for $950, and even incomplete figures can get you upwards of $500, a complete one in good condition would get you upwards of a grand.
 
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