Your Free Door Prize: PYGMON GROWTH CHART

Hello friends.
It’s been a very long time. It’s good to see you. I hope you’re holding up well in this world-wide wildness. 

I come to you bearing a gift: a Pygmon metric growth chart. This beautiful bit of ephemera was included as a fold-out insert in a Japanese children’s magazine in the early 70s. (The artist behind the wonderful painted image is, sadly, unknown to me.) Several years ago, after some long searching, I obtained a copy in good condition, and engaged the services of a professional archivist to make a top-quality scan of the image at full size. 

At last, I offer this chart as a (huge) .psd file for your downloading pleasure here.

My sincere wish is that many of you will download it and have it printed to scale on some sturdy paper or cardstock, to actually be used for its intended purpose by your own family, or a family you know and love and would like to gift it to. (Or several families! Makes a great baby shower gift!) In this way, we will carry the magic of Garamon, Pygmon, and Ultra-kaiju in general, into the future.

IMAGINATION! CREATION! GROWTH! MONSTERS! FOR THE CHILDREN!

Peace!!

New Garamon figures from CCP and Billiken Shokai!

Big Gara-news on the full-size figure front from two heavy hitters in the world of realistically-rendered kaiju sofubi!

First up- you knew they were going to do a Garamon at some point; that day has finally come, and CCP is ready to release a brilliantly-sculpted 30cm Garamon toy.

Dig the knock-kneed stance, faithful to a certain sequence in Gary's first, dam-smashing Ultra Q appearance ("Garadama", original air date 3/27/66):

CCP is also offering a dam accessory base which you can pre-order with the figure for an added cost (full product/ordering details here):
 

I gotta say, the face is eerily show-accurate on this one; CCP's blog entry on the piece features several shots from the colorized Blu-Ray Ultra Q set, and I have to think that stills from that edition were heavily referenced during the sculpting.


You may recall that I posted about the new Garamon by Billiken Shokai a little while back; more pics have since surfaced on their site:

Looks like there's no firm release date yet, and I'm still not sure if this will be released as a kit, fully-finished figure or both; needless to say, I will keep you posted.

Gary & Semi-Ningen ParaBabies by the DaiOni

Wonderful shots of these little Marmit fireplugs by the TheDaiOni:

Once again, friends & fiends, it's been too long; there are some truly incredible Gara-things to post about, and I plan on playing catch-up this week... please stay tuned!

Pygmon coin

***NOT LEGAL TENDER; may not be used to purchase sofubi.

The Nerdstrom Collection, Pt. 16: Post Monsters mini GK

Charming resin mini GK (built and painted by the estimable Thad Rhodes) put out in the early 90s by the mysterious company Post Monsters ("For adults with childlike eyes"), which produced a whole line of mini Ultra-kaiju in the super-deformed style... go ahead and embiggenate this mini pic:

The Nerdstrom Collection, Pt. 15: more mini magic from hustle55goodjob

Very happy to be welcoming another wonderful hustle55goodjob custom Gara-mini into the collection... this surly lil' sucker brings the smiles! 

Billiken Garamon vinyl model kit

Well, this came as a complete surprise to the Proprietor... Billiken showcased this amazing new Garamon vinyl kit on their SuFes 59 table: 

Word to Kaiju Korner and Kadomium Tank for their always-excellent reportage!

Pygmon egg... PYGMON EGG!

Coming soon from Bandai...

Want... WANT so very much...

B&W digi-Gary

From here.

Mr. Atom Gray enters the GARAMANIACAL coloring contest

Two beauteous hand-colored GARAMANIACAL coloring contest entries received from Atom today (you gotta embiggen):

YEAH!

GARAMANIACAL

I am thrilled to finally announce this... an event so Garamonically epic, it may rend the very fabric of reality...

Astromonster/Alex Wald

Bill Nordstrom

Bob Eggleton

CUPCO/Luke Temby

Dave Dopko

Gargamel

Gorilla Mouth/Troy Stith

Greasebat/Jeff Lamm

Grody Shogun/Luke Rook

GUUMON/Brian Mahony

hellopike/Phil Staszkiw

Isabel Samaras

Jacquelyn Heloise

Jason Edmiston

Jim Groman

Josh Herbolsheimer

Koji Harmon

Lauren Stutzman

Leecifer/Lee Gajda

Mark Dabelstein

Mark Nagata

Matt Sesow

Miles Nielsen

Monster Worship

Mutant Vinyl Hardcore/Rich Montanari Jr.

Paddy Charles

Paul Kaiju

PLASEEBO/Bob Conge

Prometheum5/Ben Mininberg

Ralph Cosentino

Robert DeCastro

Steve Seeley

zapatoloco/Benoit Robitaille

Walter Parenton

Toybot Studios/Kirlkland Jue

Michael Skattum

Walter Chauskoskis

Rob Kimmel

Street Grapes

Stay tuned... much more to come on this!!

Butanohana Garamon preview shots

From the Buta blog:

New Yamanaya Garamon coming in September

Thanks, Yamanaya... always great to see you guys poppin' a new color of your amazing Gary.

If you don't own one of these, you need to... and this would be a fine place to start:

Nice color scheme, truly... kinda what I was thinkin' when I commissioned this custom back in '07:

Blue Flying Squirrel Garamon

Atragon-GK Garamon

Aaaawwww yeah... it's begun...

Stay tuned to the Atragon-GK blog for the latest in-progress shots... and start saving up your yen!

Garakutagigas sightings

On the floor at SDCC (in the hands of the man himself):

Visiting with the great Geof Darrow:

On Atelier G-1's table at WonderFestival:

Unpainted red looking quite sweet!

Check these Astromonster posts for the latest info:

Garakutagigas Order Info

Garakutagigas in process

Garakutagigas Astromonster color versions are GO! Ordering opens tonight!

I'm a little late in reporting on the awesome "Storm" color version, pictured above; here's today's scoop from Astromonster:

Garakutagigas Orders Open Tonight

Colorway no. 2 Fire was painted last night. Photos are still in preparation. I will post photos of both colorways and order info tonight at midnight, July 20.

Garamirage

Everything you ever wanted to know about Nakira....

... but were too creeped out to ask...

Alex pointed out this page on the Sunguts site.

Round-up: interesting Yahoo Japan auction pics

Recent things of interest on YJA...

Fully-disassembled M1-GO giant Garys... nice colors:

Intriguing lifesize foamcast Semi-Ningen prop head... no discernible details on origin in the auction description: