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Weekly Character Spotlight 17: Gyaos

PostPosted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:29 pm
by klen7
Well lets try our first Gamera related spotlight... and in order to cast the widest net as possible, bring on ANY Gyaos! This could be a Silver Space Gyaos, this could be a sleek Hyper Gyaos, a classic Showa era Gyaos, a Super Gyaos, a Millenium Gyaos, even a rare Albino Gyaos! Any Gyaos! Any at all...

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:44 pm
by klen7
Here is my favorite of the Gyaos figures i own... its a pretty decent size with a large wing span... not sure who the maker is (picked it up around 10 years ago) Sega? X-Plus?

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:53 pm
by king_ghidorah
It was released by Sega as a crane toy but sculpted by X Plus I believe. Fantastic figure and it was relatively cheap when first released.

Great theme for this week BTW. Just looking around my room, it seems I have 4 Gyaos (and two of those are mini figures). One, is the Sega Gyaos you just posted a pic of so I won't have much for this week at the moment. I have pre-ordered the exclusive version of the X Plus Showa Gyaos coming out later this month, so I'll post it here eventually.

As for now, hopefully I'll post pics of what I do have either later tonight or tomorrow.

PostPosted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 4:41 pm
by eabaker

PostPosted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 12:01 am
by KaijuZoo
From the Yujin Trading figures diorama set ...
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Space Gyaos
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 3:53 am
by eabaker
One of my favorite Bandai figures:

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Not one of my favorite Revoltechs:

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 9:34 am
by klen7

PostPosted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 9:44 am
by king_ghidorah

PostPosted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 4:07 pm
by eabaker

PostPosted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 6:21 pm
by canofhumdingers
No pictures of Gyaos from me this week... (I've only got the 6 inch bandai from GIII and the small accessory hyper Gyaos that came with the Kaiyodo Xebec GIII figure). But I have good reason why I haven't been and probably won't be participating very much in these threads for the time being... I just moved. Below is the current state of my collection...

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 6:44 pm
by eabaker
Well, since canofhumdingers can't post it, I dedicate these pictures of the Bandai 6 inch GIII Gyaos to him:

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 7:17 pm
by KaijuZoo

PostPosted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 7:48 pm
by KaijuZoo
Here are two examples from my favorite vinyl series, Marmit Vinyl Paradise, 1997 VP-21.

Gyaos (dark brown)
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Space Gyaos (limited edition)
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 8:14 pm
by king_ghidorah
I used to have both of those figure, fantastic.

PostPosted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 8:50 pm
by KaijuZoo
Here's another pair of figs, this time from Marusan modern reissues.

Gyaos
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Space Gyaos
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 9:07 pm
by Alpha OTS

PostPosted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 10:03 pm
by king_ghidorah

PostPosted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 10:52 pm
by KaijuZoo
Another rarity, the Yutaka 30th Anniversary boxed set with Gamera and Gyaos from 1995.

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 2:01 pm
by klen7
^ I'd definitely pick that up if i saw it at a decent price... Also the Vinyl Paradise figures really have character to them... i like them better than most of the sculpts from the VP line-up


Here is a "controversial" entry... I am a big fan of this particular series but i understand why some fans dislike them.. anyway here's a re-imagining of the Showa Gyaos from "Konami SF Collection Series 2"

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The chase figure from this series is a Space Gyaos which is the same exact sculpt but painted silver. I will post pictures of that one too

PostPosted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 2:14 pm
by klen7
And here is the Gyaos from "Konami SF Collection Series 1"... i really love the sculpts on every single figure of this series (even at such a small scale they blow away most other Legion, Legion Soldier and Iris sculpts)... my ONLY complaint about this series is that the paint job on the Gyaos is far too glossy

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(even the under side of this small sculpt is incredibly detailed)
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 5:15 pm
by eabaker
^I've almost bought that figure several times. Tempting, but I'm just not quite enough of a Gamera collector to justify more pieces that aren't filling notable holes in my collection.

PostPosted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 7:01 pm
by KaijuZoo

PostPosted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 7:12 pm
by king_ghidorah

PostPosted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 7:34 pm
by king_ghidorah
So...the only two Gyaos I have that haven't been posted already

X Plus Hyper Gyaos

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Konami SD Gyaos

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 11:33 pm
by klen7
Here is a fun (albeit morbid) entry... this is the base from the incredible Art of War Gamera 3 figure.

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This is one of my absolute favorite figures i own