Continued from
previous postBefore Hot Toys and Sideshow came on the scene and offered us better 1/6 head sculpts and quality plus value for money products (for Hot Toys, it's all their movie masterpiece series figures and for Sideshow, it's their Star Wars armored figures - 1/6 stormtroopers etc), there was Medicom. Medicom is over-priced and below par for their quality (some of their bodies have broken apart and self-destruct for no apparent reasons and some have experienced torn costumes or costumes coming apart at the seams).
However, if you are into 1/6 scale Japanese anime, manga and tokusatsu (live action films with special effects), then Medicom still rules supreme in this area - sad but true. Here are some of the tokusatsu figures I grew up with in the 1970s - ULTRAMAN
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and KAMEN RIDERs (or masked riders, as they are also known) of the Showa era (describing the reign of Emperor Hirohito from 25 December 1926 to 7 January 1989).
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Medicom Kagaku ninja tai
Gatchaman/G-Force/Battle of the Planets![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNicLUFssHumim9NXn3H4p7zrBRYuNuRdNrf8xOpQwLKCrwCEe9JdHKZ0JpKdSz_Kdtj-GmKodFIwjpWTN6iE7sTwxpffk-0cMTHI9vcdE5H8jkOaYKQtslIw9xxDTrwALjbhiVlSWMyBR/s640/medi16.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL2BJXjKY3bwBigwFURYY2P5HtYuvftGVWa5zD9UCjvqwJYmV_xG9lEIiOM1Ghah0dQw_mNL4MXhfaZMN6jrinGph59m9UlEJt7NAxtJ0ZCzuJc5IDDvYTvm7kt6lxzILAbIqS9LVKCFXF/s640/medi17.jpg)
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Medicom Apocalypse Zero
Kakugo Hagakure with the Zero armor,
agent Nico and Hot Toys
Astro Boy![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitLisnbbb7gdSPpNK5Suxf6JtvfrJjt5lCgGIaT2r10lzT_98a2mUfZBp9LZjSUuWFVMKNn0E3vl_zEtZWsIVK06fbL3XCr3_N1JACrErCruGG2YRyYDx25v3ozQk4GzqfbSMZ4BQtqc61/s640/medi19.jpg)
Medicom MGS3
Naked Snake (Cold War version) and
Captain Harlock
Medicom Wolverine and Black Cybone (from
Mad Capsule Markets)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid35moC-m7FDQiPJ-mO5aqNy1nrmvzQlxAfIFIXg87y4Euja0MmPjh8hGYSCgmPHdhmLAMgrtMQUlV9ixv83WL6TaspviJ3kT5ImpnEY67lty1wg62vtjrIxw85XomlMN9VFDdiC-83OE/s640/medi21.jpg)
Medicom White Crusher (from
Mad Capsule Markets) and
Hugh Jackman Wolverine
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtgow7WHnkDiYzInNFxmAX2lwdtKrJ4yMrMj-SMLb0bNZIQ9_3s6IesUepmaK-ePGMsWtFAq9NPhCmjfTpOBIdN-jkYGOb-QdPjwq7ny0V-xPCex_guwUEmd-0cG2W2pZ4BrfKGie7W1w/s640/medi22.jpg)
And some Femme Fatale figures
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Medicom
MGS4 Raiden![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZyIV85peO_bQzqdUIMUAJ7Yyuyw4j_C9gogfXC8HBH6KpT5zv8phTDFPD821_7NAxLPDW8jiSiGK3vCCRN9IP6SDarlDRd9-kG3u33nDrDaPf0gaegbPcdHfBweMb04qUseW2zaw1uBJS/s640/medi26.jpg)
Medicom Ghost in a Shell / Stand Alone Complex
Motoko Kusanagi![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_08AbY03OgBG76ymR_zf7WAkdpWGHn8m0I2_cIbyVsXSzkEf1RC4h0Pk5Z-wPV_-pIzxHoCmyUNndCTvaFieZfwgWZzy8hteynNTtY-Cr3aaxp9RwTa0XJy4ftSx-PK0yuXCzVoBXGXCm/s640/medi27.jpg)
And then Hot Toys entered the picture with their exceptional Appleseed Ex Machina
Deunan and
Briareos, along with their Resident Evil/Biohazard 4
Jack Krauser and
Leon S Kennedy![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZGDkPBafoBOKIfQrw1gR1mgLBvvwETDAxmL6yHUeyelrxQS682rvhsrBnp48GYQx8Yor8dH1Hw6HRv56ZgmzSMwLHDEe-n81SWJ-ZGyllGanskHAhgnnT6dw8O8qXVT4wXbwff7YVf74s/s640/medi28.jpg)
2 comments:
I love the masked rider 1, 2 and 3 in movie version..Drool!!
Yup desmond, i liked how they reworked the old versions to give it a more hip and new look :)
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