Medicom Toy x Nakajima Seisakusho Tiger Mask Soft Vinyl With Removable Hood, Antonio Inoki Face, 2015
Medicom Toy x Nakajima Seisakusho Tiger Mask Soft Vinyl With Removable Hood, Antonio Inoki Face, 2015
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Two legends, one hood
For the collector amused by a secret identity with a famous chin.
Best for: Wrestling and soft vinyl collections
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Described as unused.
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The 2015 Medicom Toy issue of the Nakajima Seisakusho Tiger Mask, whose removable hood lifts to show the features of Antonio Inoki.
The Piece
The figure wears the tiger striped cape with red lining, blue tights and black boots. With the yellow hood removed the strong jaw of the great wrestler appears in place of Naoto Date.
It is described as unused and has been kept carefully in a private home.
The Hood and the Face Beneath
Tiger Mask was created by the writer Ikki Kajiwara and the artist Naoki Tsuji and serialised by Kodansha from January 1968 to 1971, first in Bokura and then in Weekly Bokura Magazine and Weekly Shonen Magazine. Toei Doga's television series ran for 105 episodes from 2 October 1969 to 30 September 1971. Its hero, Naoto Date, wrestles under a tiger hood against the Tiger's Den, the organisation that trained him, and gives his purses to the orphanage where he grew up.
Nakajima Seisakusho, the toy maker known by its turtle mark, issued a soft vinyl series of Tiger Mask and the villain wrestlers sent against him, the hero's hood lifting away to show Naoto Date beneath. Medicom Toy's 2015 figure follows that pattern, and in this variant the face under the removable hood is Antonio Inoki's rather than Date's; Inoki appears as himself in the comic and the anime. More Showa character toys are gathered on the soft vinyl shelf, and our guide to Showa tin plate and soft vinyl toys explains how they were made.
Details
- Maker: Medicom Toy, after Nakajima Seisakusho
- Year: 2015
- Material: Soft vinyl with vinyl cape
- Includes: Removable hood and cape
- Original pattern: Nakajima Seisakusho
- Series: Tiger Mask, Kajiwara and Tsuji (1968)
Sizes are measured by hand; please allow a small margin.
Condition
- Described as unused.
- Every photograph is part of the description.
Condition grade N (unused) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
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Delivery from Japan
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