galactiboy
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A good friend of mine (the same one with the Flagg) actually wrote the Lee's supplement on Battle Beasts. I had a few as a kid but never knew how extensive and popular the line was, especially in Japan.
Yeah, its surprising. I don't know much about the Battle Beasts... but its a similar story with M.U.S.C.L.E. figures. In the US there were 236 different figures, but in Japan there were an additional 180 or so sculpts.
In my picture the gumball machine (and yellow figures outside of the containers) is a complete set of the non-US sculpts. Took me nearly 10 years to complete and I invested close to $2000 to do Some of them cost $70 a piece