tatsunokofan
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Registration Date: 03-12-2006
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Hi all,
Oh yeah, those Character Collection cloisonne pins! They were released in Japan by Yutaka in 1995, along with about 100 other non-Gatchaman anime character pins. It was a pretty big series, if you were trying to get them all! About 2 years ago, the Gatchaman ones reappeared in Diamond Comic catalog. I suspect that a bunch of the pins must have surfaced somewhere and Diamond got them, though it is possible that Yutaka reissued them. I doubt they were a reissue, though, mostly because there was no noise about them on Japanese fan sites, and they didn't turn up in any Japanese auctions at the time.
There is actually a 6th pin in the set, though a lot of people are unaware of it. It has long been the hardest of the pins to find, and was not included in the offering from Diamond. That pin looks like this:
None of the pins are very large, only about 1" long and 1/2" tall. Being made in Japan for their domestic fan market, there was never any consideration given to including a 7-Zark-7 pin in the series. Sadly, there was no Dr. Nambu pin either.
James
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05-10-2007 20:24
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