1/6 kaiketsu lion-maru custom

what or who is Kaiketsu Lion Maru (Swift Hero Lion Maru)?
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refresh your memory with this youtubed-video and/or wiki / fansite (including midi-theme-song with somewhat familiar spidey-ish hooks LOL)

and now feast your 1/6th-custom-lurving eyes on OSW-member; Gaiagear's rendition / update of the classic 1972's Lion Maru:
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as ever with a keen-eye on style, design and form, Gaiagear ("Leo" to his friends) manages to transform an age-old figure (top-image-right) to the figure you see here. click on either image above/below to view the forum-thread, where Leo includes making-of images = *1/6-retro-sweetness*
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the thread also features an "upcoming" Medicom 1/6 Real Action Hero-version of the "modern" Lion Maru-incarnation:
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check out the youtubed-videos of the opening intro and a fight with Tiger Joe *heh*

Comments

  1. I'm not familiar with the character, but I've already seen the original figure at MiskatonicNick's Toyville. Looks great - but then, it's gaiagear... ;) I spent many happy hours ogling his customs.

    Btw, does anybody know what happened to his website?

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  2. apparantly his websites down for quite a while and he did mention he's trying to re-do a new one ... i've been bugging him to, so i could link him! LOL

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