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[max powerz]

damn did you see the new stuff!!!! The new 6.5 inch figures of wally tusket and checkmate (in horsey form), the guy in red who was on last week (forgot name) and teh guy in green turban look cool!!! Also they have a micro figure ring! and a 40 or 60 (forgot) boxed set of the micro figures! OOOOhhhh do i want the ring and the 6.5 toys. They also had series 10 of the micro figures! oh yeah we know we are getting afew more :-D and what i didnt like was the really large figures with the cloth. They are dolls not figures. Hey as long as its muscle.... next to pick up the muscle tazer

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[SpyMagician]

I have to say, overall I am overjoyed with the toyfair 2003 Ultimate Muscle/Kinnikuman stuff!

12" figures! Mantaro, Kevin Mask, Terry Kenyon and JAEGER!

New 6" figures! Wally Tusket! Scarface! Checkmate in centaur mode! and BONECOLD!

Sadly there is a downside, they look like they have action features that will eliminate some articulation.

None of them have the excellent chest articulation of the first wave, but more problematic (if you prefer articulation to action features) is they look like they will have very limited hip movement. They look like they have v-crotch hips.

Judging by Bandai USA's past Power Ranger stuff, if they use a leg squeeze combined with the v-crotch to activate, that means that one hip will not even be able to rotate! still the arms look decent.

BoneCold looks like he will have a button activated swivel waist, but may or may not have elbow joints in both arms (hard to see the right elbow in the pic.)

Still, awesome character choice. Wall is big enough that the lack of full articulation is not so bothersome, same is true of centaur form Checkmate.

I would have prefered regular articulated Scarface and Bone Cold, but hey, any new Kinnikuman is good Kinnikuman!

SpyMagician

PS. Pics are at figures.com under the toyfair 2003 bandai ultimate muscle section.

[jkaris]

http://207.44.182.10...cat=527&thumb=1

Front page of the AKIA by later tonight also!

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How soon will we see these in our local retail stores?

All I can say is .

[jkaris]

I'm loving the 40 packs!

The 6.5 Checkmate looks REALLY lame!

The new colors on the 1.5's are sweet, and the poster? YES!

[QWAAH]

Same here. I all about the small figures, the poster and the ring. Can't wait!

[TheOrgg]

I'm curious to know when they'll come out with 3-packs for a dollar where you can collect all the figures in all the different colors!

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[Wraith]

AWESOME!!!



LOOK CLOSELY, THERE ARE CLEAR FIGURES!

[Wraith]

look closely at these pictures:

[Wraith]

now tell me, WHY ARE THE ACCESSORIES GLUED INTO THEIR HANDS? PLEASE tell me they will be able to hold them on their own!

[doc_moore_j]

Same here. I all about the small figures, the poster and the ring. Can't wait!

Ditto, the minis are the only 2nd generation stuff I am collecting.

[MIWP]

I wonder how many 40 packs there will be?
Also how many 15 packs?
I cant wait untill they hit the shelves, anybody have any idea when they
will come out?
The poster, ring, holy cow!
This will be fun.

[Wraith]

40 packs should go for about $9.99 (seems like a good price to me, by the way, i just made up that price but it sounds about right)

[max powerz]

Well the reason why the accessories are glued to their hands is because they dont want them to fall out. I know from experense. My dad worked for kenner for afew years in febuary at the toy fair (yup i got toys months in advance and also some of the displayed ones and also afew prototypes ) But they also glue the figures to stands so it can stand in case of anyone touching it. Some of them they have for you to play arround with but noone does that except for things like spinart and remote control cars cuz you have to see it working. I could possible have gone this year cuz my dad still knows peopel in the bussiness who he is friends with but that was along time ago and i am at college which is 8 hours away.... I will ask if he has time to pick up any giveaways cuz do they rock or what! Hopefully hell walk by bandai to pick up silver muscle but i doubt he can make it there except to take my little brother, but still i doubt it. I dont like the clear muscles, they should just make them flesh.

[max powerz]

Oh as for the 6.5 inch figures i remember hearing that they are going to have action features and you cant do that if you have all these articulated parts in the midwaist. Judging by the figures i can throw guesses what each one does
NOTE THIS IS MY GUESS ITS NOT OFFICIAL!!!!
Wally has a clubbing action with teh fish,
checkmate is just the horse leg add-on,
green-guy up and down action with sword thing as it looks as if there is a tab there,
Big Kev. i presume both arms wail up and down,
as for the other 2 i got no clue. REMEBER ITS JUST A WILD GUESS!!!!
What i am currious about is taht the ring has hooks on each of the turnbuckels, "wuts up wit dat?"

[chet zesty]

*drools* 40 pack *drools*

Anyone else catch the commercial for the toys this morning? It was on toward the end of Foodons. There was a really clear shot of a cool painted Meat. The commercial said that "there are over 100 mini figures to collect". There are only 60 currently available, if they're advertising more, I bet the new series hit the shelves soon.

[Rokk]

Here are a couple of my first impressions after seeing the pics.

The 40 pack is going to rock! Great packaging and it has some new colors and clear figures. Thumbs up to that.

Yay!! A poster of all the micro wrestlers!! Great idea. I love it.

The wrestling ring for the micro wrestlers is so f'n cool!! That is a must have item. I also dig the fact that they made spectator stands to set around the ring.

The good thing about the second wave of 6.5" figures is that they have MUCH better paint jobs than the first set. The downside is that I much prefer excellent articulation instead of action features. Eskara, Wally and Kid Muscle all look good. I don't know why they are giving us another Kevin Mask figure instead of a Dik Dik figure! The Gren Turban guys doesn't do much for me. And I love Checkmate, but that Knight figure is kinda lame. They should have done a Checkmate figure in Rook or King mode. It would have looked cooler.

I love the 12" figures! They have crackin' good articulation for such big figures. Plus, size does matter. A 12" Kevin Mask figure will be sweet.

Overall, I am very happy with the new Kinnikuman toys that Bandai has planned.

[Rokk]

*drools* 40 pack *drools*

Anyone else catch the commercial for the toys this morning? It was on toward the end of Foodons. There was a really clear shot of a cool painted Meat. The commercial said that "there are over 100 mini figures to collect". There are only 60 currently available, if they're advertising more, I bet the new series hit the shelves soon.

Damn, I missed the commercial, again. Of course, I avoid Fighting Foodons like the plague. I watched TMNT after UM, but didn't see any ads.

[Robotube]

The 40 pack is proof that God is alive and loves us all very much.

[Robotube]

...and look at that Crazy-Go-Nuts appendage coming out of Tel-Tel Boy's head!! That's some nutty stuff right there.

[QWAAH]

Did you guys notice the 15 pack?
On the top left corner, it says Series 9 - 12.
I thought these were series 5 - 8 figures. That's a series 10 pack. I guess we're gonna see 5 - 8 very soon, If they gave us a taste of series 9 - 12.

OH MY! OH mY! Oh my MY mY!

[pasvagrsvj]

Well great, there goes alot of my money that could've gone towards REAL muscles...good thing I've got an endless supply of the stuff.

[max powerz]

Well the facty taht i said it was series 10 shoulda got that thought in your head. You know they are throwing them in waves of 4 for the minis. I think the boxed set will be for those who missed series 1-4 when 9-12 comes out. Not only taht but in the box do you see a checkmate in horse form painted? Its black on the second middle row getting puinched by the kid muscle on the cardboard box. And dont you talk smack about Kevin Mask, he reeks of awesomeness!

[max powerz]

Damn was my spelling "terribull" up there