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[fuzzbuster]

Anyone know more about stretchy Kinkeshi? I recently came across this guy in a lot of mixed figures. He is roughly the same size as a Musclemania figure, and about the same level of flexibility as the soft variety from that line.

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Curiously, he carries not only the usual Y/SNT on his back, but also another TM with which I am not familiar:

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MORINAGA? MOR NAGA?

 

Anyone else familiar with this variety of Kinkeshi?

[plasticfiend]

I'm eagerly waiting for someone to answer your question... very curious myself.  My first response would have been a MUSCLEMANIA, but then the markings on the back show that it isn't.  I wonder if Nilla would know?

 

PF

[TheRiddler]

Its from the Morinaga candy company i believe.

 

http://www.littlerub...howtopic=227421

[plasticfiend]

Oh geez... keep those away from your other stuff.  Yikes.

 

PF

[Ericnilla]

Death

[SmokinGun]

Oh geez... keep those away from your other stuff.  Yikes.
 
PF

Yeah, I don't see how they can be displayed.

[fuzzbuster]

I remember that thread now. What a mess!

 

Whenever I have figures that I suspect will degrade in such a way, I store them in individual bags. Even if they are going to break down on their own, they will at least be separated from other figures.

In fact, I have two other stretchy Kinkeshi that were fairly degraded when I first got them, but have not gotten any worse being stored this way for the last ten years.

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These two other figures are much smaller than the Morinaga figure, and are clear:

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I cannot discern any visible TM on either of these. I always assumed that they were bootlegs, but I could be wrong.