RicSan Custom Toys Kyōrū Kaiju (Titanosaurus)

My latest kaiju figure purchase is the Titanosaurus made by Ricsan Custom Toys. I own and love the Varan & Gabara, so of course I had to preorder this one when it was available. He was delivered earlier this week.

This kaiju hails from the last Godzilla film of the Showa era, 1975's Terror of Mechagodzilla. The Black Hole aliens are back, rebuilding their robot in another effort to take over the planet. They enlist the help of an ostracized Earth scientist named Mafune and his daughter Katsura, who are able to control an aquatic dinosaur named Titanosaurus. They plan to use both kaiju and mecha to attack Japan. Titano was a cool monster, with his tail that opened into a fish fin, and he would use it to create whirlpools in the sea, and high winds on land. I'm hoping that S.H. Monsterarts makes one for the 50th anniversary of the film, but when I saw this Ricsan Custom version, I couldn't pass it up.

Titanosaurus (called the Kyōrū Kaiju), comes in a white box, with its name and an illustration of the figure printed on the side, packed in styrofoam. Also included is a little unpainted, 3D printed submarine, the Atragon (from the 1963 Toho film). And finally, a small card with a photo of the figure, alongside his co-star Mechagodzilla. I’m not sure why the submarine from the movie wasn’t done instead of the Atragon, but I’m not complaining; it’s still a cool accessory. As for the figure itself, it’s highly detailed and the paint job is the best out of all the other figures he’s done. Titanosaurus is coated in a dull red with pinkish highlights going down his neck and torso. His head spikes, fins (including the fish tail and ones along his back) are coated with light orange shading. His eyes are the same color, with black pupils. The tongue is pink, and the teeth, fingers and toes are a bone white shade. I may touch up those toes, as the paint is a bit sloppy, but everything else looks great. Like the others, he’s cast in resin, so take extra care when handling the figure, as that material is harder and can more easily break if dropped. I had one accident while posing him, where he fell forward and snapped one of his small antenna on his head. I was able to thankfully krayzee glue it back on.

The articulation is the same as the others, in that he’s held together by thick, tight string. The mouth is on a hinge and can open and close, the various segments of his head and neck can turn to the sides and bend down, his arms and thighs can turn up and out a bit, with elbows and knees that bend and twist a little. His wrists and ankles can rotate, his upper torso can twist and move up, and his segmented tail can turn to the sides. One needs to simply utilize care when posing his body parts, keeping in mind that they don’t move like standard ball joints or hinges. He can do various monster roaring poses, balance on just his legs, and achieve a sitting pose.

Final thoughts? I personally think this is the best Ricsan Custom Toys figure Ricardo has made (well, at least out of the 3 I own). The paint job is very nice (though not quite accurate to the suit, but I don’t really care), and the sculpt is fantastic and quite accurate. The only drawback would be is that he’s smaller than I was expecting, whereas the kaiju was bigger and taller than Godzilla. Depending on which figure he’s posed next to, he’s either a bit shorter or about the same height, though he does scales well with the SHMA Mechagodzilla. Either way, I love this awesome figure and I’m so psyched to finally own a super articulated Titanosaurus. Hopefully SHMA can give us one for that 50th anniversary, but if not, then I’m ok, because I’m quite happy with this one.