Chaos Darkness
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Review by JoshB
Chaos Darkness is not only a enemy kaiju of Ultraman Cosmos, but he is also a playable character in the Japanese Card / video game "Daikaiju Battle: Ultra Monsters". This game is one in a series of games called "DATA CARDDASS".
These are arcade style games found inside of convenience stores and such, and you can play the game by itself, or you can insert cards that come with toys you purchase. It looks like the game is coming to the Wii as well.
A lot of the Ultra Kaiju available now come with two cards - a header card and a DATA CARDDASS card.
Chaos Darkness is 8" tall with movable arms and head. He is molded in purple soft vinyl with various color sprays.
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10 comments postedWe didn't talk too much in this one, now did we :P ? Nice fig, but I'm missing you opinion on that.
With a lot of these Ultra Kaiju, there is really not that much to say. The purpose of these type of reviews are more to catalog these items than anything else.
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CollectionDX Admin
That's part of the reason I haven't reviewed more of my vinyl collection. It's really hard to come up with new stuff to talk about. The pictures say everything. (I'm also too lazy and I have lots still being displayed hung up in their bags that I don't want to open. Another reason is that I have lots of glowies, but my camera takes terrible glow pictures. And I don't think you should review a glowie without a shot of it glowing!)
"This must be settled the way nature intended....with a vicious, bloody fight!"
Onyx Blackman
Principal, Flatpoint High
Is there a lot to be said? It's a soft vinyl toy. I figure these products are always a situation of "If you like how it looks, get it" as they're all generally the same in terms of construction and articulation, right?
Yeah, I just can't imagine there being much to say about this guy. Mass produced, factory painted, realistic sculpt. Done.
I am a little curious about this whole "card ass" thing, though! ;)
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Sanjeev
..how long it would take for a dog to chew through it.
..just a thought. ;P
Leonardo Flores
CollectionDX Staff Writer-West Coast Bureau
This really makes me wish all games were region free.I'd love to play this on my Wii when it comes out,but I can't without some sort of software hack that voids the warranty. I suppose there's always the chance it will come out in America like the SNES game did,but I'm not holding my breath.
I love these things. You guys have a point, but these chintzy vinyls are an art unto themselves, featuring tons of paint variations, just like with the fancy vinyl, only not as in your face about it. Real production stuff, like, "I ran/ I'm running out of silver paint..." That still happens all the time with these things, owing to a certain amount of craftsmanship involved in painting them, and it makes collecting them fun. Plus they're uniquely Japanese.
Thanks for explaining the video game card and the excellent Wii rumor.
This has been mentioned on here before by people far more elequent than me,but what makes this awesome is that it's a TOY. This isn't a 200 dollar collection of tiny parts that can't stand on it's own without a display base. It doesn't have switchable hands or a "perfect transformation",it's a toy. Children who like this show buy this guy to fight Ultraman Cosmos out in their yard. There's something cool about that that a direct market "collectible" can never replace or duplicate.
Looks sorta like the gorilla general from Planet of the Apes, complete with bulbous-funky helm, got turned into some Guyver-bio-armor baddie.