As you know, Australia is a land of ancient mystery and dark secrets. Often on my trips to this Great Southern Land I try to uncover some of these, but I wasn’t prepared for what I found yesterday.
I speak of an entire range of officially licensed and absolutely not bootleg LEGO kits based on popular brands. I was slack-jawed as I stumbled upon these; why aren’t these in the LEGO store in my local mall?
I speak of such things as Deformation Armor:
And Dinosaur Crossing:
And New Hero:
And even Marvelous Aengans:
Note that a couple of them are from a company called ‘666’, which must be some sort of southern-hemispherean LEGO shell company managed by Satan.
Anyway I was trying to decide which one to buy when I found this hidden at the back of the shelf:
Holy Moses it’s Ultraman! I purchased it faster than you can down a small frozen coke and scurried out of the store. This, I knew, was a find of the century!
Obviously this is an officially licensed and not at all bootleg LEGO Ultraman kit, and specifically one of four available:
But what’s the subtitle under the ultra logo?
Ah yes, it’s obviously based on the obviously nonexistent ‘Star Body Sucking’ series. This may explain why the included minifigure is a weird hybrid with the head and chestplate of Ultraman Taro, the body design of no existing ultra, and who wields the Sparklence from Ultraman Tiga!
But this is a trifling distraction since I absolutely love this little bugger! Surely he’s now risen to the very top of my collection of officially licensed and absolutely not bootleg LEGO minifigures 🙂
Oh and there was a ‘spaceship’ in the kit as well but it was absolute trash so I binned it immediately.
What a find! Could it *be* any more tailored to your interests?
Reminds me of when you, B. and I were in Katoomba and walking to that club for dinner. One of us said, jokingly, “I wonder if they’ll have the ‘Doctor Who’ pinball machine.” And, of course, they did.