Jay: Your collections are also stunning You're near to complete all Cronic figures,aren't you? My favorite Zyurai.
This one is kind of a sad story. Back in 2006, Cronic sold a 'pinstripe box set' at summer Wonderfestival consisting of a clear green Mav, clear blue Zyurai, clear yellow Doro and two clear pink Nougakis, all with elaborate pinstriping. The set was 38,000 yen and included a beautiful display case. Photo linked from datadub's flickr: Now it seems someone has broken up the set. Both Nougakis and the Doro were sold off. I only picked up this one (which ironically matches a Nougaki that I sold long ago when I thought I was "done" with Cronic). It's great to have a piece of that fantastic set, but it's unfortunate to see it go this way. I wonder what happened to the case.
That's a lovely pinstripe Cronic set! Akum6n...what you mean to say is that, it includes a "clear green" Zyurai Asu and "clear blue" Maverasu right? Nevertheless, congrats on the score!
It looks like clear blue based but clear pink in real. Personally, x 2 Re-take. I found he can stand without white bar recently...
Like Darky wrote, that mav comes from Mixbox as the "Ura"-Secret limited 1/4 as long as I see the tag. (I bought it at second market = I didn't have a luck to buy mixbox ) Zyurai is absolutely customed but not new. I posted the pics of the same zyurai before, I got the offer in Dec 2009. After that, Cronic/Mr.Naoki keeps silence Cronic makes the toy event interesting/exciting for me so it's really sad! jcat> Thanks!!
Kaz, I am far from being complete! With Cronic, I learned, being complete is near to impossible. I just had luck on some very early Naoki stuffs, his Toyfest and collab pieces are so awesome, and we haven't gotten to the one offs yet. I feel very sad that Naoki san has gone completely silent these days. I hope to learn more news about him being active again.
Jay> I think it's not fair to count one-off on complete list and in this point, I feel you own almost all of the cronic stuffs as well as the other cool toy maker's It's really cool!! I think "impossible" is also my motivation to keep checking/collectiong cronic items. I mean, I still meet and find unknown colorway-figures like above mav with surprised at second market or here and it's fun to checking around even if cronic is in silence. So I hope more people will show their cool figures/collections here (SDCC Zyurai / quoted from my old photo...) Of course, I also hope Cronic/Mr.Naoki will come back soon...
Not sure where this one is from. The vinyl is more of a dull steel blue, not the same color as the 2008 LB Mavs. It was bagged with the standard Mav header, but printed in blue. Maybe a Mix-Box item?
He did a bunch in that style, combining matte and metallc colors. I'm not sure off the top of my head exactly where that one is from but yeah 2008-9 sounds right.
Nice Mav! More collection pics, please! I've got a couple of recent pick ups - I'll try to get pics up soon.
