FYI I put corrections and updates in the descriptions of my video so it's a good habit to check it out. But in this case I'll pin it too so everyone will relax and enjoy the other 99.9% of the video ;) CORRECTIONS AND UPDATES: 9:00 - I accidentally refer to Jiger as a "he/his" several times although Jiger is female 11:55 - I SAID the right thing, but I showed the wrong figure. I showed the regular size anniversary figure (around 8 inches I'm told) but the one in the catalog is a larger version
Hey, MIB. I want to say that I'm sorry about that comment I left about Jiger. I should have checked the description. That was so stupid of me. I want you to know that your videos always bring me back in the best ways, so keep doing what you're doing. Your stuff is always great.
4:50 I believe that is meant to be there as it would hook onto a latch inside the mouth and detach to launch the missile similar to many other missile gimmick toys. Nonetheless a great video as always! ♥
Hey MIB can you do more gamera toys there's one bandi GAMERA from the trilogy and it's first one it cost about $20 on Amazon there's SHMA gamera also revoltech gamera and the 2023 GAMERA rebirth Love your videos
It's strangely funny how the Trendmasters Gamera figurine has Godzilla's roar meanwhile Godzilla, back when he was just a mere Godzillasaurus on Lagos Island, was given Gamera's screech whenever the US army injured him.
Those figures look about one thousand times better than I ever would have guessed. I would have loved those when I was a kid even if I had no idea who Gamera was.
I remember when I first saw these guys at a collectable store in 2004 I was in shock, they really did just come out of nowhere. I bought Gamera then and recently picked up the rest of these guys. I prefer the non roaring ones and agree that the projectile holes are a bit obnoxious haha. Looking forward to creating a proper Gamera Super Monster film via a stop motion project with them one day
Yeah, this toy line is so much as "not on the radar" for Kaiju fans, as opposed to just damn near impossible to find. I was never able to locate them. I find it strange that Barugon was not in the line with the other monsters, just like in the new anime show. Justice for Barugon. I do like the redesigns for the other monsters though.
I get the feeling Toho's attorneys fought to have Barugon permenently shelved in English language markets due to the copied name and similar appearance.
@@LV426Resident Well when you put it that way. Gamera vs. Barugon IS better then the other showa movies. LOL (But nothing beats guilon slicing up some gyaos sushi)
Another trendmasters video? Yes please! It's a fantastic time for Gamera to return since Gamera the brave and it's a Shame about the Gamera line came and went with little fanfare. They figures look really neat and they got the trendmasters redesigns, i do like them. They really need more love and i would love to collect these. Great video!!!
Its a shame I never found these in any stores in my area I would have loved these. I always enjoy these Trendmasters videos they always take me back and you do a great job on them.
@@animezilla4486if I ever meet someone who has heard of Gamera outside of Kaiju fans, it's always because of mystery science theatre and they're always surprised that Gamera has any kind of following or fanbase. And don't get me wrong, I adore MST3K, not saying it's a bad thing at all. But outside of those episodes, Gamera is basically unknown to general audiences in the west.
These look awesome! I had no idea they existed! As for what I wish had happened for future Trendmaster Gamera toys, I have only four words: Gamera Micro Battle Playsets. You have a Gamera toy in his jet flying pose, you flip open his shell and inside is a tiny city for tiny Gamera to protect from a tiny Gyaos or Iris or whoever. One of the buildings or vehicles has dayglow dot of color in the window. The packaging has told you that's where the child that holds one of Gamera's glowing scales is. As friend to children everywhere, Gamera most protect that child from the enemy monster.
Love these guys so much! I’ve definitely warmed up to Gamera and his series over time and have come to appreciate the series a lot. These are awesome, give it take the wonky missiles. Would’ve loved to see a silver space Gyaos at some point! And of course Legion and Iris.
I first knew about these toys when I saw them at a Pic-N-Save (known as MacFrugals east of the Mississippi, and now known as Big Lots) waaaaay back in 1999. I have both versions of Gamera but never picked up the others. Now I wish I had.
Yeah, I really wish Barugon would stop getting shafted like this. Maybe if we get a Season 2 of Rebirth we'll see a redesigned Barugon that relies more on elemental/energy based attacks, whereas Rebirth Jiger had all of his removed, to help differentiate the two more.
Man, this makes me wish even more that Trendmasters did an Ultraman line... if only Towards The Future found success, perhaps that proposed second season would have brought toys of the Ultra Brothers!
Do you mean the toyline or the show? Because "Towards the Future" was a massive success for Tsuburaya. In fact, it was their first hit since the 70s (I think the 1984 "Ultraman Zoffy" movie did pretty well too)! It didn't take off right away, but it became a huge success for them over the span of about two years. The second season of Great/Towards the Future got killed by the piss-poor quality of Ultraman Powered/The Ultimate Hero. Tsuburaya had been wanting to do an American co-production since the late 70s and based on Great's success, it was finally their big chance and they took it rather than continuing with Great. It could have paid off for them if they had done business with a company that knew what the hell it was doing.
@@ConstantineFurman Wow! I never knew Great got that much traction! I meant the TV show, but hey, maybe if Powered was actually good a Trendmasters toy line could have happened!
@@logandothewarlock6043 It took a while, a year or two for Fox to buy the rights to Great and then the ratings were apparently very high here in the States when it aired in 1992. After that, other countries around the world wanted in and they started buying up the rights for their territories. And it was popular in Japan when it finally came out over there as well. Tsuburaya just backed the wrong horse; should've stayed with the Aussies instead of hopping to America.
Well, that was fun and informative. I collected a LOT of Trendmaster's toys back then. But I seriously don't ever remember seeing these. Admittedly I wasn't yet familiar with Gamera back then either, but still. Fun to learn about these. I'm sure I'd have liked them if I'd known about them.
I was hoping you would cover these. Man, these guys were so awesome when it came to their figures. Honestly, I wish we could have seen some of the other monsters, such as a Space Gyaos, Legion, and iris. I bet Iris would’ve had a ton of missiles on his tentacles.
Funny that this toyline has the same roster of kaiju as the new Gamera: Rebirth anime. And I would like MIB to review at least some of the Gamera video games in the near future, hint hint.
I had that exact Gamera toy, the only piece of Gamera merchandise I would have as a kid. The same with that Godzilla toy, I damaged both their sound features by playing with the toys in the bathtub as a kid. The amount of fights I had those 2 get into was too many to count. I remember too that I pretty much got all my Godzilla toys at a nearby KBtoys that was next to a local Walmart. I also ended up getting a much bigger Godzilla figure there, this one was motion activated though, it had holes in the chest and when you moved in front of it, it would roar. Also ruined the sound for it by, you guessed it, playing with it in the bathtub. 😅
Ohmygod I love Gamera. And I've never even heard of these toys before. I wish I had. I would have loved to have these growing up in the 90s. I bet trying to get them now is going to cost a fortune
Trendmasters employees really do a lot of amazing things when it comes to monster designs for the toys before shipping them to markets , I appreciate the Gamera figures a lot because of their unique appearance & shown potential , if these are what the heisei incarnations of Gamera foes would have been including barugon , as including Kaiju such as Nezura , garasharp & geboras , then Gamera 4 , in a alternate reality , would have been a real film if bankruptcy didn’t came to daiei & gain story plot similar to Godzilla final wars & could have included all the Kaiju instead of the gyaos swarm & a original Kaiju for that film as a final foe for Gamera as noted by a small glance of a cyborg next to viras
I first saw these toys showcased in an issue of G-Fan magazine. I looked for them at my local K-Mart, and Walmart, but never found them. They just weren't available in Dogbutt Arizona. You know, four of Gamera's enemies appear in an episode of Franklin.
oh the comedy with the jiger missile also my buddy had a gyaos figure he gave me and his mind was blown when i told him it was based off the sound one. the button was driving him bananas!
I actually saw some of these toys at a Big Lots in Fort Collins back in either 98 or 99, For some reason I guess by then I stopped playing with toys I never bought any of them, and sometimes I still wish I did.
I regret selling my Trendmaster Gamera. Loved how it looked and functioned. Someday I'll find Gyaos and Gamera together for under $100... someday. Honestly never liked the Godzilla line, and never felt inclined to buy any. I like turtles.
I was scrolling through some kaiju Profiles on wikizilla. And i found some interesting new information on kaiju’s like Gamera, Monster X, and others. The biggest piece of info for me was about my favorite Kaiju, Kiryu (Mechagodzilla 3). Turns out that after Godzilla Final Wars, an Idea was pitched for Kiryu to have his whole solo film, the director of Godzilla against Mechagodzilla and Tokyo SoS submitted a fully written script for it. I honestly wish I could get my hands on that.
As far as the logo is concerned, American fans almost en masse erroneously refer to the 1995 movie as "Gamera: Guardian of the Universe." However, the movie's actual English title is "Gamera, the Guardian of the Universe." It says as such at the bottom of the Japanese title card [in English] as well as the onscreen title card for the U.S. version. I was doing this myself until I discovered the error back in March of '22 just in time to include its notoriety in a book. Holy nuts! While I can't speak to the other monsters, Guiron makes the EXACT same late-Heisei Godzilla sound as your Gamera figure there does! What. The. Hell, Trendmasters?? In the late 90s, despite the fact Daiei had been using "Guiron" in English since 1969, fans took to calling Guiron "Guillon" because they discovered he's named for a guillotine (I think this was August Ragone's doing). Daiei (and later Kadokawa) were having none of it though and held steadfast to their original "Guiron" name.
I had Gamera! I can’t remember if I found him at KB Toys or at this weird import shop at one of my local flea markets, but I definitely had that Gamera. I didn’t have him long though, the dog chewed him up.
Maybe just maybe Netflix will give us the Gamera and Godzilla fight, considering people are loving the Gamera anime and I heard Singular Point will get a season 2 eventually
7:57 Apparently, it is supposed to be Guillon since his name is based on the word guillotine. We just say Guiron because Japan pronounces their Ls like Rs
I didn't even know trendmasters had a Gamera line but I think I saw them once but I didn't know Gamera until 2010 so..... yeah would love to have had them during my childhood with all my Godzilla figures
So- Orga 👀 When we gettin that show review hmm I joke of course honestly I’m just happy to see some love for are favorite giant turtle! The show would make a pretty good review tho! it’s really great and definitely made a Gamera fan out of me! :D
The sad thing is that you can tell they realized this line wasn't going to be successful by the lack of other accessories and feelies in the toyline. I'd imagine that's why they just used a sped up Godzilla roar. Like why bother contacting Gamera's production company for recordings of their sounds when you know the line was going to be so niche? Just take some other monster's sound, good enough. Also, now I wish they had the license for Tom and Jerry toys if ONLY to have a Tom with a sound function that's his famous "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" scream.
I actually own a few of these. I have the sound versions of Zigra and Jiger and the non sound versions of Gamera and Viras. I've had them since the early 2000s. The Zigra and Jiger figures have the same roar as each other only at different pitches. I think Trendmasters may have cut a few corners with this line.
Trendmasters should have put more effort for the Gamera toy line, specially making a toy commercial for it. If they did the toy line could have possibly been successful enough for Trendmasters to make new toys for the toy line, specially making new kaiju that are exclusive to the Gamera toy line. Heck maybe it could have possibly led to a Gamera animated series.
Although, now that I'm watching this video, having the Gyaos toy be able to turn his head side to side kind of breaks his canon. Remember, to create that sonic beam of his, Gyaos has two throats; one produces the sound, and the other amplifies it. But because he has two throats, Gyaos CAN'T turn his head from side to side, instead having to turn his entire body to face his attacker.
Cool video! Thank you! I didn't have any of these, but I have a friend who collected these (and all the Trendmasters Godzilla figures). As nifty as these were, you tell the writing was on the wall. My favourite of the bunch was Guiron. Pretty sure they called it "Guilon" because his name was based on the fact that he has a Guillotine for a face.
I honestly didn't even know this line EXISTED. ...well, ok, I'm kinda lying, I knew there was a Gamers toyline by Trendmasters but I honestly thought it was cancelled and it was one of those tragic examples of a cool cancelled toyline that people still lament years later... but apparently NOT?? Yeah, must be because I've never seen commercials of it on TH-cam unlike the Godzilla toylines and that's like basically the only way I was aware of old toylines existing.
I've never understood why toy companies insisted on putting sculpt breaking projectiles, action features and sound shit on their toys, I hated that shit as a kid and still do.
Wait a minute I just realized something. The Gamera Rebirth features Showa era monsters but Elmo Barugon. This trendmaster toy line features the Showa era monsters but again no Barugon. What is it they have against Barugon? He’s one of my favorites in the era.
Minor error on MIBs part. There legal info IS there, just not on the back. All of copyright and company info is on the BOTTOM of the blister bubble (the same insert as the name) and the same for the boxed figures.
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FYI I put corrections and updates in the descriptions of my video so it's a good habit to check it out. But in this case I'll pin it too so everyone will relax and enjoy the other 99.9% of the video ;)
CORRECTIONS AND UPDATES:
9:00 - I accidentally refer to Jiger as a "he/his" several times although Jiger is female
11:55 - I SAID the right thing, but I showed the wrong figure. I showed the regular size anniversary figure (around 8 inches I'm told) but the one in the catalog is a larger version
Hey, MIB. I want to say that I'm sorry about that comment I left about Jiger. I should have checked the description. That was so stupid of me. I want you to know that your videos always bring me back in the best ways, so keep doing what you're doing. Your stuff is always great.
4:50 I believe that is meant to be there as it would hook onto a latch inside the mouth and detach to launch the missile similar to many other missile gimmick toys. Nonetheless a great video as always! ♥
Guiron And Jiger Mating And Together Fight Gigan And A Evil Imitation Jet Jaguar Who Him And Gigan Almost Got Killed By Gamera’s Stomach Beam.
When will you release the godzilla vs jet jaguar part 4 episode
Hey MIB can you do more gamera toys there's one bandi GAMERA from the trilogy and it's first one it cost about $20 on Amazon there's SHMA gamera also revoltech gamera and the 2023 GAMERA rebirth
Love your videos
How interesting that Barugon got shafted both in this series and the new cartoon. Thanks for the video, MIB!
That Poor guy
It’s probably some copyright thing
@@LV426Residentno excuse on Anime tho
Barugon deserved better since it was Gamera's first foe
It would be like if Anguirus never appeared again.
It's strangely funny how the Trendmasters Gamera figurine has Godzilla's roar meanwhile Godzilla, back when he was just a mere Godzillasaurus on Lagos Island, was given Gamera's screech whenever the US army injured him.
Turnabout is fair play
Trendmaster’s puts projectiles in their toys*
MIB: and I took that personally.
Love this video. Can’t go wrong with MIB toy reviews.
Gamera has always and will always be my favorite kaiju. I wish he ever had any stuff out when I was a kid.
Those figures look about one thousand times better than I ever would have guessed. I would have loved those when I was a kid even if I had no idea who Gamera was.
I would have wanted them even though I hated Gamera as a kid lol
Why'd you hate gamera 😂@@Sir_Adam
@@poob1082 back then I hated him simply for not being Godzilla lol
I have been WAITING for this video to be made!!! Definitely a toy line that flew under the radar for a lot of people.
“Maybe I just have a dirty mind.”
No, no. You’ve got a point.
I would have loved a Gamera Micro Battle Playset!
I remember when I first saw these guys at a collectable store in 2004 I was in shock, they really did just come out of nowhere. I bought Gamera then and recently picked up the rest of these guys. I prefer the non roaring ones and agree that the projectile holes are a bit obnoxious haha. Looking forward to creating a proper Gamera Super Monster film via a stop motion project with them one day
I only knew about them through G-FAN magazine. There may have even been advertising for the line in an issue or two.
@@PatrickGreeneFearwriter Nice. They really were extremely exclusive
Yeah, this toy line is so much as "not on the radar" for Kaiju fans, as opposed to just damn near impossible to find. I was never able to locate them. I find it strange that Barugon was not in the line with the other monsters, just like in the new anime show. Justice for Barugon. I do like the redesigns for the other monsters though.
They appear as shooting stars on Ebay. I used to see them a lot 10 years ago.
I get the feeling Toho's attorneys fought to have Barugon permenently shelved in English language markets due to the copied name and similar appearance.
@@PatrickGreeneFearwriter If you've seen his movie, its for the best.
@@Sir_AdamHis movie is one of the best Showa Era movies wdym
@@LV426Resident Well when you put it that way. Gamera vs. Barugon IS better then the other showa movies. LOL (But nothing beats guilon slicing up some gyaos sushi)
Another trendmasters video? Yes please! It's a fantastic time for Gamera to return since Gamera the brave and it's a Shame about the Gamera line came and went with little fanfare. They figures look really neat and they got the trendmasters redesigns, i do like them. They really need more love and i would love to collect these. Great video!!!
Its a shame I never found these in any stores in my area I would have loved these. I always enjoy these Trendmasters videos they always take me back and you do a great job on them.
I think the reason trendmaster never promoted to Gamera toys it's because Gamera is not exactly recognizable in United States has Godzilla is
@@animezilla4486if I ever meet someone who has heard of Gamera outside of Kaiju fans, it's always because of mystery science theatre and they're always surprised that Gamera has any kind of following or fanbase.
And don't get me wrong, I adore MST3K, not saying it's a bad thing at all. But outside of those episodes, Gamera is basically unknown to general audiences in the west.
These look awesome! I had no idea they existed!
As for what I wish had happened for future Trendmaster Gamera toys, I have only four words: Gamera Micro Battle Playsets. You have a Gamera toy in his jet flying pose, you flip open his shell and inside is a tiny city for tiny Gamera to protect from a tiny Gyaos or Iris or whoever. One of the buildings or vehicles has dayglow dot of color in the window. The packaging has told you that's where the child that holds one of Gamera's glowing scales is. As friend to children everywhere, Gamera most protect that child from the enemy monster.
These things are impossible to find on the aftermarket but they're so cool. If only they were a bigger deal.
Viras is my personal favorite camera monster, so im glad he's so awesome as a trend masters figure
Imagine if Trednmasters did an Ultraman toyline in the 90s
Glad to see Trendmasters Gamera getting some attention
Love these guys so much! I’ve definitely warmed up to Gamera and his series over time and have come to appreciate the series a lot. These are awesome, give it take the wonky missiles. Would’ve loved to see a silver space Gyaos at some point! And of course Legion and Iris.
Also trendmasters having been an STL company makes me proud of my hometown.
I’m sad that Barugon never gets anything
He should since he is Gamera’s first Kaiju enemy and he was quite formidable against him
@@draconuistudios6244i mean all of Gamera enemies have won against him in their first fight
These look so bootleg yet so official it's hilarious and interesting 😂
Playmates needs to make gamera
🎶Gamera is really neat he is filled with turtle meat we’ve been eating Gamera🎶
KENNY!!!
6:09 I think they didn’t had the Gamera roar yet so they just added a high pitched version of Godzilla’s like Zilla’s
It's a noise Godzilla made in the later Heisei films, most notably as he dies.
Ngl I love Gamera and his villains so much that I may look out for these. Dope vid!
I hope whoever is designed the trendmasters toys back in the day is watching these because.. we need the hero from the sky
I first knew about these toys when I saw them at a Pic-N-Save (known as MacFrugals east of the Mississippi, and now known as Big Lots) waaaaay back in 1999. I have both versions of Gamera but never picked up the others. Now I wish I had.
I have been waiting centuries for you to make this video
Wow never new these existed, thanks for the content MIB!
It's a shame that they didn't include Barugon in this toy line or Rebirth.
Yeah, I really wish Barugon would stop getting shafted like this. Maybe if we get a Season 2 of Rebirth we'll see a redesigned Barugon that relies more on elemental/energy based attacks, whereas Rebirth Jiger had all of his removed, to help differentiate the two more.
Finally!!! A video about Gamera by MIB!!! Thank you! 😊
I definitely would not be surprised if these Trendmasters projectiles were the inspiration for some of Bad Dragon's products 😅
Man, this makes me wish even more that Trendmasters did an Ultraman line... if only Towards The Future found success, perhaps that proposed second season would have brought toys of the Ultra Brothers!
Do you mean the toyline or the show? Because "Towards the Future" was a massive success for Tsuburaya. In fact, it was their first hit since the 70s (I think the 1984 "Ultraman Zoffy" movie did pretty well too)! It didn't take off right away, but it became a huge success for them over the span of about two years.
The second season of Great/Towards the Future got killed by the piss-poor quality of Ultraman Powered/The Ultimate Hero. Tsuburaya had been wanting to do an American co-production since the late 70s and based on Great's success, it was finally their big chance and they took it rather than continuing with Great. It could have paid off for them if they had done business with a company that knew what the hell it was doing.
@@ConstantineFurman Wow! I never knew Great got that much traction! I meant the TV show, but hey, maybe if Powered was actually good a Trendmasters toy line could have happened!
@@logandothewarlock6043 It took a while, a year or two for Fox to buy the rights to Great and then the ratings were apparently very high here in the States when it aired in 1992. After that, other countries around the world wanted in and they started buying up the rights for their territories. And it was popular in Japan when it finally came out over there as well. Tsuburaya just backed the wrong horse; should've stayed with the Aussies instead of hopping to America.
Godzilla battle line is underrated
I played at launch, but it didn't manage to overcome mobile game syndrome of not being forgotten after a week
Disagree.
Agreed
Those Godzilla and Kong Titan Tech figures are spiritual successors to that line.
@@MonsterIslandBuddiesrude. But I love your channel
It's Funny How Gamera Has Godzilla's Roar Because The Godzillasaurus In Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah Has Gamera's Roar.
Never really knew much about the Gamera Trendmasters line, great video as always!
Well, that was fun and informative. I collected a LOT of Trendmaster's toys back then. But I seriously don't ever remember seeing these. Admittedly I wasn't yet familiar with Gamera back then either, but still. Fun to learn about these. I'm sure I'd have liked them if I'd known about them.
I had no idea TrendMasters made Gamera figures. Sucks to see you lines end without seeing their full potential 😞😔
Another Trendmasters video? These are the best
This line is so awesome. Kinda wish it got more support
I was hoping you would cover these. Man, these guys were so awesome when it came to their figures. Honestly, I wish we could have seen some of the other monsters, such as a Space Gyaos, Legion, and iris. I bet Iris would’ve had a ton of missiles on his tentacles.
Funny that this toyline has the same roster of kaiju as the new Gamera: Rebirth anime.
And I would like MIB to review at least some of the Gamera video games in the near future, hint hint.
Been working on it. Doing something very very special for gamera 2000
7:14: hey gyaos isnt supposed to be able to turn his head
Just saying. We need MIB merch that says *"Classic Trendmasters!"*
Great video mib I’m a very big fan of your channel and videos. Plus I really enjoyed this video too
Trendmasters was definitely trying to catch lightning in a bottle with Gamera. Considering Gamera was originally made to compete with Godzilla.
We finally now have seen something close to a Godzilla vs Gamera movie
Whack, I didn't even know these existed. But 2000 was also the year my family moved out of the states, so it's no wonder I didn't have these toys.
MIB: Oh and don’t forget that it can’t be a trendmasters without a projectile
Viras: Am I a joke to you?
I only knew about this line thanks to some scalpers on Ebay selling them for, you guessed it: hundreds of dollars.
I DID NOT KNOW THERE WAS GAMERA FIGURES?
I had that exact Gamera toy, the only piece of Gamera merchandise I would have as a kid. The same with that Godzilla toy, I damaged both their sound features by playing with the toys in the bathtub as a kid. The amount of fights I had those 2 get into was too many to count.
I remember too that I pretty much got all my Godzilla toys at a nearby KBtoys that was next to a local Walmart. I also ended up getting a much bigger Godzilla figure there, this one was motion activated though, it had holes in the chest and when you moved in front of it, it would roar. Also ruined the sound for it by, you guessed it, playing with it in the bathtub. 😅
Ohmygod I love Gamera. And I've never even heard of these toys before. I wish I had. I would have loved to have these growing up in the 90s.
I bet trying to get them now is going to cost a fortune
Good ol’ Trend-missiles at it again with the projectile functions
Shame Barugon was left out of this line
just like rebirth
Jiger is basically a better version of Barugon. although a launching tongue would be hilarious.
Trendmasters employees really do a lot of amazing things when it comes to monster designs for the toys before shipping them to markets , I appreciate the Gamera figures a lot because of their unique appearance & shown potential , if these are what the heisei incarnations of Gamera foes would have been including barugon , as including Kaiju such as Nezura , garasharp & geboras , then Gamera 4 , in a alternate reality , would have been a real film if bankruptcy didn’t came to daiei & gain story plot similar to Godzilla final wars & could have included all the Kaiju instead of the gyaos swarm & a original Kaiju for that film as a final foe for Gamera as noted by a small glance of a cyborg next to viras
I first saw these toys showcased in an issue of G-Fan magazine. I looked for them at my local K-Mart, and Walmart, but never found them. They just weren't available in Dogbutt Arizona. You know, four of Gamera's enemies appear in an episode of Franklin.
Gyaos's projectile always made it look like he was puking.
The monster with the Death Rainbow. Would've been neat to see how he could have been 90s fied.
oh the comedy with the jiger missile
also my buddy had a gyaos figure he gave me and his mind was blown when i told him it was based off the sound one. the button was driving him bananas!
I actually saw some of these toys at a Big Lots in Fort Collins back in either 98 or 99,
For some reason I guess by then I stopped playing with toys I never bought any of them, and sometimes I still wish I did.
I regret selling my Trendmaster Gamera. Loved how it looked and functioned. Someday I'll find Gyaos and Gamera together for under $100... someday. Honestly never liked the Godzilla line, and never felt inclined to buy any. I like turtles.
I was scrolling through some kaiju Profiles on wikizilla. And i found some interesting new information on kaiju’s like Gamera, Monster X, and others. The biggest piece of info for me was about my favorite Kaiju, Kiryu (Mechagodzilla 3). Turns out that after Godzilla Final Wars, an Idea was pitched for Kiryu to have his whole solo film, the director of Godzilla against Mechagodzilla and Tokyo SoS submitted a fully written script for it. I honestly wish I could get my hands on that.
As far as the logo is concerned, American fans almost en masse erroneously refer to the 1995 movie as "Gamera: Guardian of the Universe." However, the movie's actual English title is "Gamera, the Guardian of the Universe." It says as such at the bottom of the Japanese title card [in English] as well as the onscreen title card for the U.S. version. I was doing this myself until I discovered the error back in March of '22 just in time to include its notoriety in a book.
Holy nuts! While I can't speak to the other monsters, Guiron makes the EXACT same late-Heisei Godzilla sound as your Gamera figure there does! What. The. Hell, Trendmasters??
In the late 90s, despite the fact Daiei had been using "Guiron" in English since 1969, fans took to calling Guiron "Guillon" because they discovered he's named for a guillotine (I think this was August Ragone's doing). Daiei (and later Kadokawa) were having none of it though and held steadfast to their original "Guiron" name.
it's M.I.B dropping beats with the M.I.C
My dad owned a Trendmasters dinosaur toy, the dinosaur toy had the same EXACT generic monster roar as Gamera.
"Also, all of the projectiles in this video look like things you would buy at an adult store."
Eh, they look more like red Christmas trees to me.
I had Gamera! I can’t remember if I found him at KB Toys or at this weird import shop at one of my local flea markets, but I definitely had that Gamera. I didn’t have him long though, the dog chewed him up.
The worst boi.
Maybe just maybe Netflix will give us the Gamera and Godzilla fight, considering people are loving the Gamera anime and I heard Singular Point will get a season 2 eventually
I just got into your channel MIB and i just wondered.. WHERE WERE YOU ALL MY LIFE 😭😭😭
7:55 the way the tusks are position makes it look like Guiron doesn't have a mouth.
7:57 Apparently, it is supposed to be Guillon since his name is based on the word guillotine. We just say Guiron because Japan pronounces their Ls like Rs
I bought the voiceless Gamera figure a few years ago, its the only Gamera figure in my collection so far
This makes me want to watch the gamera movies
I didn't even know trendmasters had a Gamera line but I think I saw them once but I didn't know Gamera until 2010 so..... yeah would love to have had them during my childhood with all my Godzilla figures
So- Orga 👀
When we gettin that show review hmm
I joke of course honestly I’m just happy to see some love for are favorite giant turtle! The show would make a pretty good review tho! it’s really great and definitely made a Gamera fan out of me! :D
I just realized that a year ago I saw gyaos at a thrift store and didn't pick him up because I didn't know much about gamera at the time
It haunts me
Gamera would be friends with Godzilla
The sad thing is that you can tell they realized this line wasn't going to be successful by the lack of other accessories and feelies in the toyline. I'd imagine that's why they just used a sped up Godzilla roar. Like why bother contacting Gamera's production company for recordings of their sounds when you know the line was going to be so niche? Just take some other monster's sound, good enough. Also, now I wish they had the license for Tom and Jerry toys if ONLY to have a Tom with a sound function that's his famous "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" scream.
I actually own a few of these. I have the sound versions of Zigra and Jiger and the non sound versions of Gamera and Viras.
I've had them since the early 2000s.
The Zigra and Jiger figures have the same roar as each other only at different pitches. I think Trendmasters may have cut a few corners with this line.
I think the "hole in the mouth" could also be a homage to the showa era version of Gamera. From when he spat/ate flames.😋
It was SO DAMN HARD to find these toys. I owned Zigra and Viras, but I really wanted Gamera and Gyaos. Yet I could NEVER find them.
Trendmasters should have put more effort for the Gamera toy line, specially making a toy commercial for it. If they did the toy line could have possibly been successful enough for Trendmasters to make new toys for the toy line, specially making new kaiju that are exclusive to the Gamera toy line. Heck maybe it could have possibly led to a Gamera animated series.
Although, now that I'm watching this video, having the Gyaos toy be able to turn his head side to side kind of breaks his canon. Remember, to create that sonic beam of his, Gyaos has two throats; one produces the sound, and the other amplifies it. But because he has two throats, Gyaos CAN'T turn his head from side to side, instead having to turn his entire body to face his attacker.
Cool video! Thank you! I didn't have any of these, but I have a friend who collected these (and all the Trendmasters Godzilla figures). As nifty as these were, you tell the writing was on the wall.
My favourite of the bunch was Guiron. Pretty sure they called it "Guilon" because his name was based on the fact that he has a Guillotine for a face.
I think there’s at least one vhs tape out there that calls him guillon (with 2 Ls). I’m not really knowledgeable on gamera history full disclosure
@@MonsterIslandBuddies Yeah, the Neptune Media releases of the late 90s.
Never saw these figures as a kid. Would have liked to have gotten Gamera and the shark.
Love these figures.
Poor Barugon, he never got his own Trendmasters action figure.
I honestly didn't even know this line EXISTED.
...well, ok, I'm kinda lying, I knew there was a Gamers toyline by Trendmasters but I honestly thought it was cancelled and it was one of those tragic examples of a cool cancelled toyline that people still lament years later... but apparently NOT??
Yeah, must be because I've never seen commercials of it on TH-cam unlike the Godzilla toylines and that's like basically the only way I was aware of old toylines existing.
Gamera: im okay
Trendmasters:*lethimchokeamissile*
I think it would be pretty cool if unknown had skins that try to imitate other killers like trapper.
My fav is Gyaos and Zigra by their design even Gamera, even not perfect
I've never understood why toy companies insisted on putting sculpt breaking projectiles, action features and sound shit on their toys, I hated that shit as a kid and still do.
Wait a minute I just realized something. The Gamera Rebirth features Showa era monsters but Elmo Barugon. This trendmaster toy line features the Showa era monsters but again no Barugon. What is it they have against Barugon? He’s one of my favorites in the era.
It's interesting that you can also see the not voice box speaker hole could be on some of them
I've have always loved your videos and it always keeps getting better and i can't wait intill you release godzilla vs jet jaguar
ironic how all of these specific monsters in this toyline are the same ones who made it into Gamera Rebirth
Hm what a coincidence that the figures in this line are the same monsters that ended up in Rebirth
So many years ago i purchase The jiger and was in The original blíster and all and i didnt even know that was of trendmaster until now
Minor error on MIBs part. There legal info IS there, just not on the back. All of copyright and company info is on the BOTTOM of the blister bubble (the same insert as the name) and the same for the boxed figures.
Confirmed! Thanks for the heads up, I’ll put a correction in the description