Sho' yo' Butas for Lixx

There are two purple dustman a clear and an opaque. You seem to have three different ones, including two different opaque with different spray patterns. I would love to see better pictures of each. I recently completed the dust man set of 4 and am super happy to have done so. Love that weirdo

 

This is a weird question but does anyone else think like a lot of Buta toys look like they would glow?

 

@gazpacho the last Dust Monster on the right is the lavender version, plus the two darker purples. Thank you Zach and @paulk for clarifying the two purples as separate releases . It's night time now, but I'll post a photo of each when the daylight returns for better photos

p.s. @slipstar01 there are GID butas, both micros and standard size critters. Not many, Hayabusa Falcon Lady (pink head), yellow Pandora and Chinpee, pink Baltan, green Staiin, Grumble Toy dinos to name the ones I can remember.

 

I think there is also a light green GID Baltan in the other sculpt.

Also, I either never knew, or forgot, that the yellow Pandora and Chinpee were GID. That's really cool.

 

Ah yes, thank you Paul! I'm still chasing after the Lime Green Baltan, so I forgot he's GID.

 

A bit crowded - perhaps time to rearrange

 

Ahhhhhhh! Can't beat the dime toy store shelf look, it's the best!

 

As I posted in the 'display case' thread a few months ago, I finally got a display case for my collection. Before this, most of my toys had been sitting in boxes in a closet for years, and as such, a number of my buta figs were still in their packages.

I found myself faced with that funny dilemma as a collector as to whether I wanted to keep them in their bags or open them up. While I was debating this, I put these guys on the shelf still in package with their unpackaged brethren. It detracted from the overall look, but I was looking at it as a compromise while I pondered if I had the courage and willpower to free them.

Later that afternoon, I was reading some pages in this very thread that I'd either not yet read, or had forgotten about and I came across a post from Grace from 3+ years earlier that had this snippet in it:

I had gotten some sage advice from Chris through the years in PM's, but we'd never broached the 'to open or not to open' topic. As I mentioned to Grace when I told her this story, I couldn't help but smile and get a tear in my eye thinking about the timing of finding her post that shared some wise words from our dearly missed friend.

Needless to say, I unbagged the figs that same day so they could breathe freely with their fellow Buta beauties (Well, all but my first release Buta Magular that has the bullmark style checklist in the package. Hey, I can only be so strong!)


Here's the pics of my Buta shelf. This one's for you, Chris. We miss you, buddy.

 

I often put my new bagged figures in my case and then open them one at a time as I wander by or take a break from painting. It’s always such a treat - that newness.

This guy arrived today - just in time for our snow day up here in New York (Catskills).

 

I’d buy 3 of each at those prices

 

If we only had listened!

 

Well… yes. Grave robbers are a concern I suppose, but the fact that these guys set me back a car payment… the true tragedy of our times!



(oh, but so worth it )

 

step on the speed!!!

 

Great cluster of goodness Jon . Especially the OG cave peeps. Prices on Buta are truly insane! That last wave on JYA was a humdinger. Booska Lady and Radioactive Pipi went for over 200000 JPY I've given up on trying to fill in the missing pieces in my herd, can't fathom dropping $2k-ish on tiny tot toys

 

See! Criswell was warning us about the future back when Kaiju Taro was around!

 

Over 10 years after foolishly selling off this set from the OG gacha release at Billiken, I‘m over the moon to have them back together again!

 

I was lucky to get the blank micro antlar last week for a very reasonable price (harder and harder!). Hopefully this picture brings a moment of joy to the Buta lovers out there. Painted figures in the bottom of the frame were done by Grumble a little while back.

Tracking down the blank bright blue Antlar might be a bit of a loooong term goal

 

Could someone with the new Chibirakun set post a comparison photo with the old versions? I only have the new ones and would like to compare and contrast. (Particularly Agira.)

Really hitting myself for not jumping on the series when I had a chance...

 

Freshly arrived! The Rainbow Aghira is especially nice!



Bonus!


p.s. OG Aghira

 

Just wondering, do you display your Buta with a "monster type" in sequential rows (i.e. all of a version on Kanegons in a row, within you display case), in groups according to release date, or other random preferences? I prefer to do it by sequence, but that means reorganizing everything when new kids arrive. Also makes it easier to keep track of what you're missing, but can mean extra work!

 

Maybe my memory is going, but I don't remember Butanohana making the pink polka-dot version of the Agira on the header. Did I miss it, or is this the only rainbow Chibira-kun Agira so far?

 

No pink rainbows yet, but it's definitely on the wish list!

There's only two standard Aghira's so far, but quite a lot of Kanegons, Dustmen, Magulars, Pandora/Chinpee, but no rainbows of these so far. A rainbow Pandora/Chinpee set would be spectacularly cute!

 

^Thanks! Thought I had missed something.