I finally (finally) got my Ultra-Act Ultraman in the mail. He was waiting on my front stoop when I got back from Florida! Now I just need some time to open him up and marvel a the Ultraness.

The Ultra Kaiju Bemular I got turned out to be out of stock, so no re-enactment of "Space Monster Bemular Appears" yet.

Yeah, I may simply be more prone, but Ultra-Act Ultraman is the coolest. I spent about 90 minutes last night playing with him and achieving different poses with him. The fact that he can stand in the proper Ultra battle stance alone makes this toy worth every penny.

Right now he is grappling with a Bandai Hesai Godzilla vinyl, grabbing Big G's shoulder with his right hand and readying a big chop with the left.

This line is going to kill me! But I'll die happy!

Need pictures!!! :D

I have to pop the tag off the Goji but I'll work on it! :D

Do it! Do it!

Please bear in mind that I am not a great photographer by any stretch!

The windup...

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...and the chop!
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Godzilla takes down his foe!
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Can the mighty Ultraman defeat the King Of Monsters?
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(Godzilla is played by a Bandai Monster Island Godzilla. I tried but was unable to do an unsupported handspring pose for Ultraman, which is asking a lot I admit.)

That's awesome man! Great job!

Glad you liked the pictures. I used Baltan II's hairdryer method to remove the tag off of Goji beforehand, so it was a fun night of daikaiju toys in the living room.

I'm really impressed with Ultraman for his stability despite being hollow and light. The feet really do a good job, and the range of motion in his legs and back make some real good "fighting stances." Right now I have him in the traditional Ultra grappling position.

I thought about taking a picture of Ultraman using the Specium Beam on Godzilla but thought it would disrespectful, :D. He didn't even use it on Jirass, after all.

My only complaint about the figure is that I cannot find a way to swap the Color Timer for the red one. I don't know if it is designed for smaller fingers, or it's because I just cut my fingernails, but I cannot get the blue one out and I don't want to force it out. But that minor as far as I am concerned.

Now I just need some Ultra Monsters... and a few more Ultra Heroes... oy...

You need finger nails... or a tweezer

You might have to settle for some Heisei Ultras, ljacone, at the rate the Ultra Brothers have been consistently selling out of late and going for crazy prices on the secondary market. With luck there will be some reissues over the year to help things out a bit!

I don't mind the Hesai Ultra Heroes, I might pick a few of them up. Zero looks really neat, as does Mebius. Oddly the super common one for me to see is Tiga Power Type, followed by Tiga Sky Type. Multi-Type I don't see on eBay that much, strangely.

The only Showa one you can find relatively cheaply (really) is Leo, whom I wouldn't mind either.

Of course I also dig that Gridman, and I doubly tempted since I just saw that Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad is on DVD in the US now!

Hear hear about reissues -- would it be so hard to reissue Ultraseven?!

Self response, but it's worth it, as I just bought Leo off of eBay. With Taro coming, I am suddenly inspired to get the Showa heroes. Also I love Leo's nunchucks. :D