strange or rare yahoo auctions post here (after theyre over)

Steve - Good point about the Mandarake listing. Is it generally frowned upon to post anything that is still listed for sale on that site? I understand live YJA auctions, but aging listings on Mandarake are a gray area to me. I have seen differences of opinion on this topic on other forums, even for things like "buy-it-now" ebay listings.

@Michael Beverage - I was wondering if it's an error in the final price. What would you expect this rare Gomora to sell for?

 

I'm certainly no expert on vintage, but I would expect you'd need to drop around three zeros off that purchase price before you'd approach something resembling reality!

 

there's no way I can imagine that ending price is correct... seriously, I mean it's over $3 million USD

 

Back to Nessie, is there some kind of motorized Loch Ness monster scene in Japan?

 

After seeing Daniel's write up (an excellent and informative one!), I think I'll have to add a Loch Ness to my list. It's a shame I couldn't adopt the Mandarake one . That Gomora auction is unbelievable. I sorta wonder if there was a bidding war going on, and then at some point the opposing sides just kept bidding to spite the other. I highly doubt if someone is going to shell out $3 million for a piece of plastic . I mean toy wonder does have it's limits! Use to be the auctions were cheaper than the webstores, not so any more!

p.s. if anyone has a motorized Nessie and is willing to give it a whirl, I would love to see a video of the cutie pie in action!

p.p.s. actually the giant sized re-issued "KS" version with the red tower is a nice substitute. Not vintage, but still quite nice (Chris has taught me not to poo poo reissues!)

 

@ultrakaiju I was also following these auctions Steve, I think the two went for a reasonable price. I am also in love with that Diatryma, although there are some good reproductions of it, I think I will wait for the vintage to come. Do not worry Steve I feel that the vinyl Gods have reserved a special one for both of us.

 

@ultrakaiju - Steve, I was also watching the lot of Daikyo kaiju/dinos, and thought about offering up a bid. The original header looks great! I thought the lot was going to sell for a much higher price. Anybody else infatuated with original header cards? I am on a quest to land the original Marusan/Bullmark/Popy Toho kaiju cards, and I regret passing on a few of them recently, including that Bullmark King Ghidorah with header from a few months back.

Also, it was very cool to see an original Bullmark mid-size egg and Twin Tail figure listed at Mandarake today:

 

Super-extra-large about 62cm unspecified Kikaider Soft
50,000 yen, this was the starting price and only had one bet.
An apology if it is not a vintage figure, I really do not know the seller does not specify it.

 

fun to see this go for not a whole lot of money, saw a few throughout my trip in varying condition, with and without cape, for upwards of 200$ . ill be happy when this ogon bat shows up on my doorstep



and its always entertaining to see when these pop up MIB, the header art alone is awesome, and the toys will always be perfect to me.

 

I'm still dwelling on this auction. Just wondering in my own curmudgeonly way, how common is shill bidding on JYA? Does anyone have an account on JYA? I'm just curious to know the bidding history of this toy. Were there a lot of potential buyers with very low feedback/buying histories? Were they recently registered users? Were there just a select few bidding? I still find it hard to believe, that someone would pay so much for this toy! Sorry for "stirring the pot", but I am curious!

p.s. ^^^ Vintage Nitto Yokai are so weird and wild!

 

I have my own account. Post the link and ill look. You cant get all that much info from the history though. The actual user names are masked, and you cant look at bidders buying history. All you see is W**SD*, their feedback rating, and their bid. Hard to say how common shill bidding is. I sometimes see items show up for sale again after auctions end on the high side. Some unsuccessful shilling maybe.

 

@deafmetal , can you please message me or @XVivaHateX the link to the Gomora auction? Thank you!
^^^Thank you Jon!
p.s. if the same toy shows up for auction again, I'd be very surprised!

 

I'm surprised to see the Diatryma selling for those prices. Maybe prices are going up.

The second lot actually doesn't contain any Daikyo figures. The front 3 are made by Miura Toy. The back 2 are unmarked; sometimes people will attribute them to Miura Toy as well, but I haven't seen anything to support that. That's actually a fairly hefty price for the lot given the poor condition of the loose 4; the bagged one shouldn't go for more than 10,000 yen or so.

 

Because of the size of the figure is not so unreasonable the price, in that price range are the m1 Tetsuji-28 and the Ultraman Bear model, well Giant Ultraman even more expensive.

 

That giant Kikaider is awesome. Does anyone know more about it - like who makes it? I've never seen one before - it seems to be the approximate scale of the giant U.S. Toys Ultraman figures from many years back but I've never seen info suggesting U.S. Toys made a Kikaider too.

 

That second excellent Marusan lot from a week or two ago went back up for auction and sold 108K JPY less than the first listing:



Somebody got a great deal on this group.

 

@ultrakaiju - Perhaps they missed the "pickup only" requirement for the auction. That immediately caught my eye, but I could see somebody failing to read the fine print.