Sculpts for Captain Maxx Mini Kaijus from Max Toy Co
Since our last feature on Max Toy Co's new Captain Maxx Mini Kaiju series [tagged], creator Mark Nagata has updated his flickr with new prototype sculpts of each of the 5 characters! CLICK THRU for snaps and words from Mark (shamelessly pilfered from his own flickr-commentary).
FYI: Scheduled for a release in late-February/early March 2010 (with StrangeCO), each figure stands between 3 to 5 inches tall, with a SRP of US$12 to $15. Made in Japan, these figures come individually packaged in a polybag with header card.
[Alien Xam by Satoru Doki of Yamo-Mark (sculpt and wax)]
MARK: "When I came up with Captain Maxx's main foe, I obviously was influenced by Invasion of the Saucer Men and Alien Baltan. Along those lines, Alien Xam ( Max spelled backwards ) when he is in his giant form is actually made up of billions of tiny Xams .. this new mini figure perfectly replicates what I had in mind for Xam's mini sized form ! Hmmm, now I only need to order a billion of them to build that life sized Xam I wanted ... !"
[Kaiju TriPus by DxSxHx Toys, sculpt]
MARK: "In a million years i could not have designed a more perfect "cute" version of Kaiju TriPus ! It's little flipper arms.. large baby three eyes looking at me... sniff, so cute ..."
TRE: Easily my fav LOL :)
[Captain Maxx by Tadayoshi Ichimiya / Sunguts (sculpt and wax)]
MARK: Ok, how cute is this ?!! For those of you out there who are into classic Japanese Heroes, Ichimiya-san included a human face version as well as the hero face version, like Silver Kamen ! As Garfield would say, "Nice Touch !".
[Kaiju Eyezon by Yoshihiko Makino of TTToys, sculpt and wax]
MARK: "I'm dying to see the test shots ( the first vinyl pulls from the molds ) of this mini Eyezon .. all I have seen of this sculpt is this out of focus pic ( ha-ha ), at once scary but also cute with those short legs and arms ;-P I can't wait to paint the eyes on this one!"
[Kaiju Drazoran by Yuichi Yamashita of Nakayoshi, sculpt]
MARK: "Ok your probably sick of me saying this but how can you resist this one ? Has a puppy dog feel , you can tell by it's floopy feet it will grow into a 200 foot monster in no time!"
Source: All-text and original images via Mark Nagata's flickr-stream
