Godzilla Week vs. Mechagodzilla!

This is the biggest guy in my meager Godzilla/Kaiju collection. Standing about a foot tall, this is another Bandai vinyl figure that has recently began (re) appearing on toy store shelves. Also available at this scale is a Final Wars Godzilla which looks pretty awesome at a foot tall.


This is an updated Mechagodzilla from 2002's Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla. The original Mechagodzilla appeared in 1974, and this one is much more detailed and robotic looking, while still holding true to the "guy in a suit" Godzilla/Kaiju standard.


His arms move at the shoulder, his waist turns, and his head turns at the base of the neck. Just enough articulation, and probably about the same range of motion as the actual suit!


The details are great at this scale, and since he's hollow vinyl he isn't heavy or bulky. He's just big!




Trypticon vs. Mechagodzilla - kinda like a gargantuan game of Rock Paper Scissors:

"I transform into a city."

"Oh yeah? Well I SMASH cities!"
Mechagodzilla FTW!

Lightning strikes, version 2.0

If you saw the Masters of the Universe haul I made a couple weeks back, you're not going to believe this. Even if you didn't see the haul I made a couple weeks back you're not going to believe this. I still have trouble believing it, and it happened to me last Saturday.

I got up early to go to a local church parking lot swap meet last Saturday. I walk up and about two vendors into it I see a tupperware box of Transformers. I start digging. When I come up for air, this is what I have in my sweaty palms:




A near complete Trypticon, Grimlock, G2 Bumblebee, G2 Hubcap(?), a couple non-transforming Transformers (including Bumblebee) and a truck (more on them later,) a G2 Sideswipe...


Oh yeah...and that little known, barely seen, poorly acted and easily forgotten background character named Megatron.



Holee Shiznickles! A G1 Megatron! No way!

WAY!

I was shaking when I pulled this guy out of the box. I actually first found a baggie with his add on parts in it, and thought that was all I'd find. I dug to the bottom and there he was in his chrome and black goodness. I'm still in shock.

While digging, I asked "how much" and was told the little guys were a dollar and the big guys were two dollars. Yeah, I was having a hard time playing it cool as you can imagine.




I only had eight dollars on me, and asked if I could have all this for eight bucks. She first said "ten," then said "sure, eight bucks is fine."




I am not sure, but the lady selling these may have been the same lady who sold the MOTU stuff. I wasn't exactly focused on her either time. Aliens could have landed...on Bigfoot...and I wouldn't have noticed. But you can count on me hitting all the local swap meets I can from now on.



And does anyone know what these guys are? They don't transform, but are "Transformers" - that's Bumblebee, and the other guy has a Decepticon symbol, and looks like his alt mode should be a pistol, but isn't anyone I'm familiar with. You can see a truck that is certainly part of the series behind them (it has the Autobot symbol on it.) It folds out on the back and sides to turn into a jet...it reminds me a little of M.A.S.K. and I know I've seen these in magazines or online somewhere (they may be a foreign only release) but I can't recall anything about them at the moment. I'll update when I find out more.

UPDATE: The figures are from the short-lived Action Masters series from 1990. Treadshot is the badguy's name. The truck behind them is part of the Micromasters series (also from 1990) and it appears I am missing the rear half of it.