Funko’s Latest Vinyl Figure Makes Ultraman Ultra-Adorable

Sometimes it whitethorn beryllium hard to remember—beneath the crashing, unyielding waves of large caput and blank-eyed replicas of beauteous overmuch each popular civilization franchise nether the sun—that Funko makes vinyl figurines that are of the non-Pop variety. But erstwhile it reminds you that it does, it likes to punctual you successful style.

io9 has your archetypal look astatine the latest introduction successful Funko’s “Jumbo Chan” enactment of vinyl figurines successful the signifier of Japan’s greatest size-changing hero, Ultraman! The 5th fig successful Funko’s emotion missive to the retro artifact stylings of Japanese sofubi figurines—which truthful acold has included Voltron himself, Gō Mifune from Speed Racer, Ken the Eagle from Gatchaman, and adjacent Funko’s ain mascot, Freddie Funko—is a akin nostalgic celebration of the archetypal Ultraman.

Funko Jumbo Chan Ultraman

Clocking successful astatine 14 inches tall, the Jumbo Chan Ultraman depicts the elephantine of airy successful a heroic pose, and adorably rounded (the disconcertingly slender Ultras of Shin Ultraman and Ultraman Rising, this ain’t). He besides comes with immoderate fantastic retro packaging too, showing Ultraman successful his classical translation airs arsenic Shin Hayata prepares to spell from mean quality to skyscraper-sized superhero.

You’ll person to enactment accelerated if you privation to enactment Ultraman successful your postulation though: the fig is constricted to a merchandise of conscionable 1,200, and comes with a certificate of authenticity to fto you cognize conscionable wherever successful the tally your Ultra comes from. If you privation 1 of your own—and person $250 to spare—preorders for the Jumbo Chan Ultraman are present unrecorded here, up of an estimated shipping day of October 22.

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