Does anyone remember the little rubber wrestlers called M.U.S.C.L.E.s in North America? In japan they were known as Kinnikuman and only existed in flesh coloured sets and were kind of like eraser material. They then came out in North America in a harder rubber/plastic also flesh coloured at first and then rainbow coloured versions as well:
I found a mass amount of them from my childhood the other day unpacking things and had some nice nostalgia moments remembering playing with them and building a wrestling ring out of wood and rubber bands for them to fight in. I was trying to think of a cool and unique way to display them in the retro room I’ve been working on, but they're so tiny a shelf didn’t seem ideal, so I decided hey... since they're from Japan, why not something like a Gashapon machine??? I picked up some vintage Gumball machines that were neglected and rusty from a guy in Calgary and decided to disassemble and paint them some fun colours (they were blue and red before):
I dressed them up with a couple of custom stickers and dumped the M.U.S.C.L.E. figurines in. What do you think?
