Mutant Vinyl Hardcore And Realhead Figure In Black Glitter, Japanese Indie Art Toy With Header Card
Mutant Vinyl Hardcore And Realhead Figure In Black Glitter, Japanese Indie Art Toy With Header Card
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All in black
For the collector who follows the punk end of the scene.
Best for: Designer toy and kaiju shelves
Condition notes
No conspicuous marks or stains are recorded.
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A soft vinyl figure from Mutant Vinyl Hardcore with Realhead, cast in black, offered with its header card.
The Piece
A pointed helmet rises over a squat armoured body, all in a dark vinyl that catches the light. It was kept in a display case.
A Studio Figure in Soft Vinyl
Soft vinyl figures in Japan reach back to the 1960s: Marusan, founded in Tokyo in 1947 and remembered as the country's first plastic model maker, introduced vinyl monsters from the Ultra series in 1966. Today small studios design characters of their own in the same material and release them at events and through their own shops; HIDDY, who opened the Harajuku toy shop Secretbase in 2001, has described how the Japanese word sofubi is now used by collectors around the world.
Mutant Vinyl Hardcore and Realhead made this figure together in black glitter vinyl; it was kept in a display case and has its header card. More figures stand on the soft vinyl shelf, and our guide to kaiju soft vinyl from Marusan and Bullmark traces the Showa makers behind the form.
Details
- Makers: Mutant Vinyl Hardcore with Realhead
- Material: Soft vinyl
- With: Header card
- Category: Independent soft vinyl collaboration
Sizes are measured by hand; please allow a small margin.
Condition
- No conspicuous marks or stains are recorded.
- Every photograph is part of the description.
Condition grade AB (clean, no conspicuous marks) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Maker and edition are given as the previous keeper describes them and as the marks and header card in the photographs support. Examined and photographed in Japan before dispatch.
Delivery from Japan
Packed by hand in Japan with rigid protection and shipped insured and tracked by EMS or an equivalent express service. Import duties and taxes, where applicable, are payable on arrival. Every sale is final; please ask anything you wish to know before you buy, and see our published policy.
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