Personally, I prefer the soft plastic used in Kinkeshi than the hard plastic with MUSCLE
Now, I am unsure why people say MUSCLE is better quality, I think they are both pretty
good quality, but i like the Kinkeshi soft plastic more, so I can make them lifting their arms,
slapping each other, or choking each other, or something. Plus I think the whole theme
of Kinkeshi is muscle/skin... so their color is like a skin tone kinda pink or flesh color, as
for MUSCLE, it's very dark pink.
http://ic2.pbase.com...062.007_040.JPG
When I first found MUSCLE, I gotta say Mattel did a pretty creative job bringing Kinkeshi
over. Love the ring, the belt and some color variants.
http://k41.pbase.com...26.007_004b.JPG
But they never had as much products as Kinnikuman.
This is a figure I kept since I was 4 or 5, and I always thought he was a badass looking
Kinnikuman because of the color... but later I found out it's a complete different character
when I was much older with internet. The toy is a hollow hard plastic figure, can't do much
to it, but I remember when I was a kid, the package of them is all colored, and I tried coloring
him with crayon. That was the 80s.
http://ic2.pbase.com...022.007_001.jpg
In between 5 to 9, I have been occupied with Saint Seiya, Dragon Ball and many other
anime stuff... When I was 10, around early 90s, I was moving to Canada, and I bought a lot of
toys around that period before I moved, and I clearly remember the day before I went on the plane,
I purchased two 4 inch figures...
http://ic2.pbase.com...087.007_065.jpg
http://ic2.pbase.com...089.007_067.jpg
I bought Kinnikuman & Robin Mask... and the whole night I had so much fun playing with them,
and looking at the cardback... I decided I must get another Warman & one of those cool looking
Kinnikuman variant before I leave on the plane. Next day I woke up, nd I sneaked out the house
to the toy store by myself... hoping to get the 2 figures to the plane ride... DAM that store, they
didnt open at around 11am!!! Actually if you guys do visit HK, a lot of toy store in certain areas
dun open till like 3pm... Anyway, fXXking disappointed back then, all I could do is looking into
the glass of the store, staring at those figures... and I went home, and I remember my mom was
pretty mad that I disappeared and the flight time was pretty close or something... so I left HK
with a little regret...
The two figures were with me for awhile (still have them in pretty good condition) but I have load
of other toys, and in no time, I was getting into the culture and buying X-Men and actually playing
hockey and skateboard and other stuff outside than playing with toys... I didn't get back into toys
until I was much older... and I didn't remember Kinnikuman until I found them when I was visiting
HK... then my friend lived in Japan helped me buy stuff from Yahoo.co.jp and man, found some
of the sweetest stuff...
http://i.pbase.com/u...063.007_041.JPG
http://i.pbase.com/u...091.007_069.jpg
Anyway, for me, Kinnikuman all the way, and you can check out my collection at this old old gallery
http://www.pbase.com/toydreamer/sp007
Edited by dreamer, 27 February 2010 - 03:20 PM.