2000 Marmit "Daigama" & "Kairyu" Set

            Character: Daigama & Kairyu
Company: Marmit
Manufacturer: Marmit
Series: Vinyl Paradise Baby
Made In: Japan
Daigama Material: Green Color Vinyl
Daigama Height: Approximately 13 cm
Daigama Number of Parts: 6
Kairyu Material: Brown Color Vinyl
Kairyu Height: Approximately 18 cm 
Kairyu Number of Parts: 7
Released: December 2000
Original Price: 4,800 yen
Limitation: Mail Order
Packaging: Bagged with Header Card

Additional Info: This Marmit Daigama & Kairyu were only available as a set. The header card is stamped and clearly credit the figures are from Kamen no Ninja Akakage. These kaiju are specifically from the live Japanese tv show Kamen no Ninja Akakage which aired from 1967 to 1968. But the suits itself are actually from the Japanese 1966 film The Magic Serpent. The suits have been modified for Kamen no Ninja Akakage. For example Daigama (translation: Big Toad), the nose horn and back horns were removed from the suit for the tv show.

There is an error as to the listing order of this release. The header card is stamped VPB-054, yet on the Marmit website it is listed correctly as VBP-056. The header card stamp is actually incorrect.

I checked and matched Marmit website listing and header stamps for VPB-049 to VPB-052, which were all correct. The mIs-labeling begins at 053. The website has the correct listing from VPB-053 to VBP-056. The reason the website is correct is because of the release dates the figures came out.. Daigama & Kairyu were the only VPB released in December 2000. The others were released in November 2000 or earlier. Below I show you the correct and incorrect VPB numbers for 053 to 056. 

ハック＆ブルコング listed on site as VPB 053 (correct) when the header card says VPB-055 (incorrect).

じじごら＆ばびらん listed on site as VPB-054 (correct) when the header card says VPB-053 (incorrect).

ギャンゴ ＆ ブルトン  listed on site as VPB-055 A&B color versions (correct) when the header card says VPB-054 A&B color versions (incorrect).

And finally 大ガマ＆怪竜 listed on site as VBP-056 (correct) when header card says VBP-054 (incorrect).

About the series name "Vinyl Paradise Baby" and "Monster Heaven Baby". Marmit had ended the standard size Vinyl Paradise series name at the end of 2001. It was changed to Monster Heaven series at the beginning of 2002. With the "baby" series name, Marmit continues to advertise pre-orders on their website as Vinyl Para Baby and assign product item numbers as VPB which is short for Vinyl Para Baby up until around the end of 2004. But header cards starting in 2002 for the "baby" series are officially labeled as "Monster Heaven Baby". 

It should be noted that Marmit sales listing and the header card use a mix of kanji and katakana for the name of the kaiju. But the foot markings on the figure use strictly katakana for their names.

Daigama Left foot markings:  

オオガマ
© 光プロ · 東映

Daigama Right foot markings:

Marmit
2000

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Kairyu Left foot markings:  

カイリュウ 
© 光プロ · 東映

Kairyu Right foot markings:

Marmit
2000
   

Taken on: January 11, 2023

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