Killer J Sarumon

If all mine weren't in storage I would post a collection pic. I have quite a few. Always looking for me.

 

How many "standard" releases are there anyway? Mostly what I see these days are all the one-offs. And as cool as some of them are, I wouldn't even know where to begin to try and collect all of the regular issues out there.

 

That's a good question. I have no idea how many there were.

 

There were a lot of customs and one-offs. Killer J would release a series of blind-bag one-offs all painted by him. There was also a large blind-bag custom series by other artists. I ended up with one painted by LASH from that series. As far as runs I don't recall there being that many but can't remember the order.


Here's a few I have/had over the lifespan of Sarumon...



LASH custom


Lamour Supreme custom

 

Well Grumble toy had 3 versions and then mandarake had that glow/pink and the rumble monsters.

 

Yeah, three from Grumble, at least one from Mandarake and the initial standard release with Rumble Monsters. At least I think the RM edition is the first non-HP release. If I can muster the time I will try and snag some photo's somewhere and maybe start a visual checklist.

Hopefully we can inspire J to get back on the horse here

 

You guys should just email J and ask him direct. He was very easy to talk to and responds well to requests.

killerj113@yahoo.co.jp

 

And if that doesn't work, threats

 

Hey whatever works

 

I emailed him a month or two ago and all he said was " I don't make toy anymore, sorry".

 

Long time no see,Guys.
Thank you for some of you still have talking with my toys.

Here is some release history of my sarumon.

1.Rumble Monsters painted ver.,
2.1st Handpaint ver.,
3.Artist Custom Lucky Bag ver.,
4.Cronic painted ver.,
5.Cronic painted Secret ver.,
6.Tokyo 1 week ver.,
7.Cronic Handpaint ver.,
8.Grumble Toy ver.A,
9.Grumble Toy ver.B,
10.Grumble Toy unpaint ver.,
11.Handpaint for Grumble Toy ver.,
12.Mandarake GID ver.,
13.Handpaint for Mandarake ver.,
14.One.up. ver.,
15.Kaiju Chronicle ver.,
16.Mishka ver.,
17.AUXPEER ver.,
18.Pink unpaint ver.,
19.New Year Handpaint ver.,
20.Flesh unpaint ver.,
21.Orange unpaint ver.,
22.GID unpaint ver.,
23.Light Blue unpaint ver.,
24.Hawaii ver.,
25.MAN ver.,
26.M1GO Handpaint ver.

 

lots of handpaints here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kj-cs/

 

Awesome, thanks J!

 

27. White unpainted

 

Thanks for chiming in J. Good to hear from you. We hope you reconsider getting back into producing toys. You have some real supporters here

 

We announced our Killer J exclusives a year ago, time flies. anyways we knocked $20 off the price for anyone on the fence about them.

http://www.nakamatoys.com/products/kill ... ve-sagiran

http://www.nakamatoys.com/products/kill ... sive-goran

 

1/1 from 2011 lucky bags.

 

These 1 offs where killer Js apex. After this it all fell apart.

 

Mob rules. Then mob turns on and eats itself

 

So no one gives a shit about Sarumon these days, but here are pics of my new 1-off (also from 2011 lucky bags) that is forcing the first out of the collection:

 

LOL. Blast from the past! Good looking toy.

You know I still have my GID version (regular release). I think I tried selling it (to make room) but had no takers at $40, so I said fuck it and kept it. I'm actually glad I did, because it still has appeal and is different from the other glow toys I have.

 

that one is great! the paint job really brings the sculpt to life

 

Lixx - Honestly the regular GID release is really well done I think, I think it just wasn't rare or hard to get enough for people to get hyped about, especially after the Sarumon bubble burst.

Gaz - Yeah I really like the patchwork contrasting primary colors. A lot of the Sarumon paint apps were a bit too busy for me, but this one is the exact right amount of busy to make the sculpt pop.

Ultrakaiju - Well my bedroom, where a good 85% of the collection rests has a solid wall more of less full of GID, definitely provides some light. My shelves are crazy tightly packed though, if I had more shelves and spread out some I could definitely get an okay 360 degree thing going on I think, but that is for someday when I have a dedicated collection room. I do have some giants and random stuff scattered about the house, not to mention the sad sacks that are boxed up in the garage. Regardless, I still have to use lamps at night, so not planning on stopping my GID quest until I get to that point. Maybe then I can save enough on electricity to make this money sink of a hobby lucrative?

 

Still have mine also, really no clue why these died such a horrible death. Great toy and the 1 offs were so good.

Maybe it's because the line really came out to strong to fast, or really never went any where.
To bad really.