Gamera Action Figures by Trendmasters

[@MonsterIslandBuddies]

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

[@WerewolfRiver]

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.

[@Ikusatwo]

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! ♥

[@theplanetkaiju9635]

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.

[@Michelleabela5487]

When will you release the godzilla vs jet jaguar part 4 episode

[@benjaminwalters2188]

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

[@lordkaijux5262]

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.

[@lewc3413]

Turnabout is fair play

[@doubleflores8350]

Trendmaster’s puts projectiles in their toys* MIB: and I took that personally. Love this video. Can’t go wrong with MIB toy reviews.

[@nickdriscoll6131]

How interesting that Barugon got shafted both in this series and the new cartoon. Thanks for the video, MIB!

[@toyohimeyeswatatsuki6917]

That Poor guy

[@LV426Resident]

It’s probably some copyright thing

[@toyohimeyeswatatsuki6917]

​@@LV426Residentno excuse on Anime tho

[@TomasGomezGoitia]

Barugon deserved better since it was Gamera's first foe

[@mgkiryuu]

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.

[@Sir_Adam]

They appear as shooting stars on Ebay. I used to see them a lot 10 years ago.

[@PatrickGreeneFearwriter]

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.

[@Sir_Adam]

@@PatrickGreeneFearwriter If you've seen his movie, its for the best.

[@LV426Resident]

@@Sir_AdamHis movie is one of the best Showa Era movies wdym

[@Sir_Adam]

@@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)

[@jpuggy6793]

I’m sad that Barugon never gets anything

[@draconuistudios6244]

He should since he is Gamera’s first Kaiju enemy and he was quite formidable against him

[@toyohimeyeswatatsuki6917]

​@@draconuistudios6244i mean all of Gamera enemies have won against him in their first fight

[@400KrispyKremes]

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.

[@Sir_Adam]

I would have wanted them even though I hated Gamera as a kid lol

[@poob1082]

Why'd you hate gamera 😂​@@Sir_Adam

[@Sir_Adam]

@@poob1082 back then I hated him simply for not being Godzilla lol

[@spooderman24YT]

Godzilla battle line is underrated

[@1stCallipostle]

I played at launch, but it didn't manage to overcome mobile game syndrome of not being forgotten after a week

[@MonsterIslandBuddies]

Disagree.

[@kaijugaming9941]

Agreed

[@Sir_Adam]

Those Godzilla and Kong Titan Tech figures are spiritual successors to that line.

[@w.tbritishgamer2117]

@@MonsterIslandBuddiesrude. But I love your channel

[@godzillabebravethetrexretu1381]

🎶Gamera is really neat he is filled with turtle meat we’ve been eating Gamera🎶

[@Sir_Adam]

KENNY!!!

[@BVSnake]

I would have loved a Gamera Micro Battle Playset!

[@Sir_Adam]

I have been WAITING for this video to be made!!! Definitely a toy line that flew under the radar for a lot of people.

[@smashblaster1-up190]

Shame Barugon was left out of this line

[@FlintsForge6931]

just like rebirth

[@Sir_Adam]

Jiger is basically a better version of Barugon. although a launching tongue would be hilarious.

[@ShinGoji1987Official]

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

[@PatrickGreeneFearwriter]

I only knew about them through G-FAN magazine. There may have even been advertising for the line in an issue or two.

[@ShinGoji1987Official]

@@PatrickGreeneFearwriter Nice. They really were extremely exclusive

[@thetoythief8940]

These look so bootleg yet so official it's hilarious and interesting 😂

[@FOXZILLA5734]

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.

[@animezilla4486]

I think the reason trendmaster never promoted to Gamera toys it's because Gamera is not exactly recognizable in United States has Godzilla is

[@medes5597]

​@@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.

[@KingGojira72]

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

[@ConstantineFurman]

It's a noise Godzilla made in the later Heisei films, most notably as he dies.

[@Ratchetcomand]

Imagine if Trednmasters did an Ultraman toyline in the 90s

[@keyztroke]

“Maybe I just have a dirty mind.” No, no. You’ve got a point.

[@darkbeast6499]

It's a shame that they didn't include Barugon in this toy line or Rebirth.

[@goji3755]

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.

[@doomzilla3568]

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!!!

[@litecyborg3248]

Godzilla battleline is like cs go u will go nuts after view rounds

[@tj.henderson]

Gamera is a pro gamer that's why autocorrect likes to call him Gamers

[@GhostShark4449]

It's Funny How Gamera Has Godzilla's Roar Because The Godzillasaurus In Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah Has Gamera's Roar.

[@isaiahgourneau2860]

Playmates needs to make gamera

[@Jasonwolf1495]

Gamera has always and will always be my favorite kaiju. I wish he ever had any stuff out when I was a kid.

[@PriyankaSankhla-vi5zw]

First one baby!!!! Sorry i know this is cringe but c,mon this is the first time i am first btw this is an amazing video

[@incidentalreelz]

You sure you're first?

[@logandothewarlock6043]

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!

[@ConstantineFurman]

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.

[@logandothewarlock6043]

@@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!

[@ConstantineFurman]

@@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.

[@firegator5771]

I just got into your channel MIB and i just wondered.. WHERE WERE YOU ALL MY LIFE 😭😭😭

[@w.tbritishgamer2117]

Play Kaiju universe on ROBLOX!!!!!!

[@w.tbritishgamer2117]

It’s the best Godzilla game EVER

[@franciscopenajr3909]

8:59 Why does it look more like the rhino creature from Star Wars attack of the clones?

[@andevil777]

Lol, it's called a Reek, I think, the only reason I know this is because someone gave me the toy 😅

[@DavidMartinez-uv9qy]

Gamera would be friends with Godzilla

[@TOKYOTOYBANZAI]

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.

[@thachocolategod]

These things are impossible to find on the aftermarket but they're so cool. If only they were a bigger deal.

[@Cinder_the_Art_Gal8144]

Just saying. We need MIB merch that says *"Classic Trendmasters!"*

[@Sir_Adam]

I only knew about this line thanks to some scalpers on Ebay selling them for, you guessed it: hundreds of dollars.

[@matteomascaropennacchi2220]

My fav is Gyaos and Zigra by their design even Gamera, even not perfect

[@NinAmuro57]

I definitely would not be surprised if these Trendmasters projectiles were the inspiration for some of Bad Dragon's products 😅

[@cobosharklover]

Will you do a movie review for gamera REBIRTH

[@Goofylizardboi]

I DID NOT KNOW THERE WAS GAMERA FIGURES?

[@AlienTyrannosaurusRex_1998]

Finally!!! A video about Gamera by MIB!!! Thank you! 😊

[@g1rldraco7]

I had no idea TrendMasters made Gamera figures. Sucks to see you lines end without seeing their full potential 😞😔

[@jhonatanmaxmello-mq6we]

Hello am big faaaaan❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@G-Bfr]

Bring back Jamaican tickle me elmo

[@Hackersaurus05]

Glad to see Trendmasters Gamera getting some attention

[@mightyfilm]

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.

[@reptile1687]

7:14: hey gyaos isnt supposed to be able to turn his head

[@Jelly_shy_guy_man]

Woah this isn a Godzilla video

[@Zero-hopper]

Don't you mean Extreme!!!!!!! Monsters

[@cristiancruzgonzales904]

9:00 why does it kind of look like bargain?

[@eerieeric834]

How do you feel about the new giant turtle anime?

[@GiantRobotsConquerTheWorld]

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.

[@JohnnyBurnes]

Zigra needs more backfins. His xylophone's 1 note!

[@supergoji2007]

I saw Jiger at a flea market in box for $20 bucks. I should of got it.

[@ThePmbstudios]

Trendmasters Zigra kinda reminds me of the Mahars from the 1976 film 'At The Earth's Core' for some reason....Must be the beak.

[@Cosmosarmorevan]

Play time YEAHHHHHHHHH

[@ConstantineFurman]

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.

[@LeftysPlushStudios]

Since you’re practically an expert on Godzilla toys, I have some questions: 1: I saw the old ad for some of the Godzilla finger puppets, but two characters stood out: a spiky lizard like creature, with most of its body and one eye being robotic, and a silver Mothra lookin thing. Do you know who they are? The other question is about some little Godzilla figures from Bandai. All I know is their bodies are cubes, while their arms,legs,tails, and heads aren’t. I’ve also only seen Kiryu, a green Godzilla, and a Godzilla skeleton. Do you know any of these?

[@b3productions974]

In 2013 I found the Jiger WITH MISSLE loose at a comic shop for $5. They had 0 clue lol

[@dragonzilla6482]

If there was a second wave, we could have seen characters like Barugon and Mother Legion. By the way Jigar is a she.

[@rickytoddbotelho9555]

Excellent job 👍👏💯

[@captainblackhook9888]

Guiron as Guilon, hah silly L too R mistranslation for this monster...with a knife head....that he used to behead space Gaios....like...a Guilotine.... HOLD ON A SECOND

[@Bucky749]

Hey M.I.B random question : I play a card dice wrestling game and I’m just wondering if you had a trios team a three man tag team what would you call them . Just monster island buddies or monster force .

[@eldritchmorgasm4018]

Will you review the Netflix-Anime? Also, would you consider buying that realy expensive Grimlock Transformer-Toy, which can realy transform on it's own, and maybe let it fight with your Monster Buddies? It could be fun, because IT'S EXTINCTION TIME... 😅

[@rougegorge1566]

Are you going to cover roblox kaiju games like Project Kaiju 4.0 ?

[@mikekomarinski]

If they did do a wave 2. I would 💚 2 C Barugon.

[@HelpImStuckInATimeLoop]

I would have liked to see Iris and Legion as well

[@natecoughar8740]

perhaps the poor sales were the result of Daiei/Kadokawa throwing Gamera under the bus, as per usual. The lack of commercials because they didn't want to throw in the cash needed to make one.

[@stingurameshi]

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

[@OldSchoolCurt]

I want a gorasaurus trendmaster toy!!! Look what happened!

[@fyrbornxtg5000]

Man I'd have loved these , cause I have tons of trendmasters Godzilla figures

[@TokusasuGuy1954]

I have been waiting centuries for you to make this video

[@YourLocalGummiBearsFan]

Trendmasters Misspelled Guiron’s Name as “Guilon”!

[@DarkOverlord96]

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 KZbin unlike the Godzilla toylines and that's like basically the only way I was aware of old toylines existing.

[@Bretking1]

Another Trendmasters video? These are the best

[@brycevo]

This line is so awesome. Kinda wish it got more support

[@PatrickGreeneFearwriter]

I have all these. Couldn't resist removing the packaging. The projectiles were super annoying.

[@Kingkonga200]

Knowing Gamera got a toy line, now we can finally have the Big 3 of Kaiju movies, Godzilla, Kong, and Gamera, all by the same toy line, sure the scaling’s kinda trash but it’s the fact they got that far at all that I like, and ik it kinda doesn’t make sense considering Gamera and Godzilla are Japanese Kaiju and Kong isn’t, but Gamera is also a Movie Rival to Godzilla like Kong is to Godzilla, so no one can really change my mind.If only they made a smaller Kong with Dinosaurs instead of Godzilla with Dinosaurs tho-

[@waynewilliams1487]

I’ve seen several mecha Gamera toys and brief reference to the1974 movie allegedly called gamera vs mecha Gamera, but I can’t find this movie. It seems legit to have toys and an internet reference explaining that the movie plot was identical to Godzilla vs mecha Godzilla because they were riding off the popularity of The Godzilla series, but can’t find the elusive gem. If it’s not real don’t understand why an actual toy would be made off of a fan made rumor

[@Cam8909onscratch]

Poor Barugon, he never got his own Trendmasters action figure.

[@Jstudios-u3n]

Primal rage

[@sprinklespicecookie4264]

G vs jj movie

[@ericolvera5038]

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

[@elrexcoleccionista]

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

[@A-0-K-GAMER]

Hey, I mib do you have any pacific rim figures and if so will they be in the monster island buddies series

[@trilobitepictures]

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.

[@MonsterIslandBuddies]

Confirmed! Thanks for the heads up, I’ll put a correction in the description

[@MoonMoon-cl4co]

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

[@dumpy5266]

Why does Viras' mouth look like the lil hourglass shape in the omnitrix?

[@justinbest9954]

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.

[@nickzilla20]

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.

[@kailemsandborg9933]

Hey MIB, why didn't you bring up Barugan missing from the trendmasters line? He seems to be forgotten by everyone even in Gamera Rebirth

[@cloroxguy496]

Gamera: im okay Trendmasters:*lethimchokeamissile*

[@EngineNo5]

gwumpy

[@LamangoKaijura]

Isn't it weird that it was basically just the Rebirth line up? Barugon got shafted, bro.

[@JesterOfLemmings]

I’m sorry, but does anyone know where I can find the Tiny Gojira comic? Thanks.

[@KOAHUNT3R]

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.

[@LeftysPlushStudios]

You got one thing wrong: Jiger is actually female

[@MrVideo-dj7dl]

"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.

[@889654]

7:55 the way the tusks are position makes it look like Guiron doesn't have a mouth.

[@Magicghost23]

👍👍👍

[@tappajavittu]

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.

[@disposable_income_andy]

due to the drybrushing on black plastic style these toys have, some of them look like classic mexican bootlegs, especially gyaos for me