Gatanozoa

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

This monster is SCARY. Like one of those monsters that you dream about thats sitting on your chest stealing the air out of your lungs while you sleep. It hits all the right phobias, scary legs, upside down head, and the classic snail shell phobia.

My kids just can’t seem to wrap their head around this one.

“What is it?”

I don’t know.

“Why is its face upside-down?”

I don’t know.

“Is it a snail?”

I don’t know.

“What does it do?”

I don’t know.

“They why did you buy it?”

I don’t know.

So of course, I had to do research on it, and this is what I found. Gatanozoa appears in two episodes of Ultraman Tiga entitled “Ultraman Tiga: Ruler of Darkness” and “Ultraman Tiga: To Those Who Can Shine”. Gatanozoa is an old god who once plagued the earth and ushered in an age of darkness, only to be awakened in modern times to do battle with Tiga.

The vinyl figure of Gatanozoa is just so outlandish that I had to have him. I got him purely as a conversation piece, and that he was just so odd looking.

The only points of articulation are the two giant claws up front and the two front legs.

Paint and detail are spectacular. For those who feel all Bandai ultra vinyl are “cheap” and the paint lacks attention to detail, take a gander at this. It’s awesome.

The figure comes on a swing tag with a DataCardass card for use in arcade machines across Japan.

A warning to you all. Don’t play with Gatanozoa before you go to bed, he will haunt your dreams!