|
Japanese origins
M.U.S.C.L.E. 101
Toy line
The poster
Figure
colors
Restoration tips
Ultra rare
items
Rare sculpts
Retail displays
fakes
Media mentions
M.P.S. Legends
Purity Test
Commercials
Fan videos
$900.00 figure
The X2 controversy
M.U.S.C.L.E. Petition 99'
EXOGINI
C.U.T.I.E.
M.I.M.P.
 |
|
|
 |
|
The
M.U.S.C.L.E. Mafia! What the? |
|
Apparently
The M.P.S. is evil |
Oh boy.. The M.E.F. is back and is
promising to expose me and my organization for what we really
are. Check out their article below..
Geez.. crazy
conspiracy theorists!
|
|
2-28-08
Wizard Toy Fare |
|
The M.U.S.C.L.E.
Toyline gets props |
 If
you haven't done so yet, run out and get yourself a copy of
Wizard ToyFare issue 128, available wherever comics and fine toy
collecting magazines are sold. It's got a nice three page
spread about the M.U.S.C.L.E. toy line, and they even came up
with a pricing guide.
|
|
2-18-08
M.U.S.C.L.E. Times issues |
|
Didn't fall off
the face of the earth..
just got hacked. |
Ah it's good to be back. I
haven't actually gone anywhere, I've just been incredibly busy.
Last month hackers who call themselves "The M.E.F." wrecked my
site for a couple of days, and I've since been bombarded with
e-mail from those whom I can only assume are the same idiots.
Here's a screen shot of what I found on the evening of January
19th when I went to work on the site..
All of my files
were wiped, and my main page pointed to the picture above.
Impressively, my hosting company stepped up, added extra
security free of charge, and the site was back up within a day.
Whomever The M.E.F.
is, they promise to reveal the "truth" about The M.P.S so the
world can see the true colors of its founder. What a joke. We'll see what happens next!
|
|
12-09-07
M.U.S.C.L.E. Times issues |
|
Issues 4, 5,
and 6 uploaded |
I just added three more issues of the The M.U.S.C.L.E. Times
to the
Newsletter section.
Issues
5 and
6 give
nice insight as to what was going on in the hobby at the time
during 1998/99,
including topics about "The mysterious 4 armed M.U.S.C.L.E." and
The Nestle Quik Promotion. Enjoy!
|
|
11-25-07
MUSCLE Man Mask |
 During
my weekend web crawl, I came across this cool looking Kinnikuman
mask on the Japanese toy site
Toy Shop EUDA.
From what I could tell after
translating the web page, the mask is a prototype, and can be
yours for a mere 100,000 yen (about 930.00 U.S. Dollars).
There's also a bunch of other cool masks and some Ultra Man
items listed there as well.
This mask is light
years ahead of the other ones I've seen through the years, which
all look similar to the ones at the site below..
While the Mask is
definitely cool looking, I can imagine how hot that thing would
be to wear! maybe this was one of the reasons it never
moved past the prototype stage. It also doesn't look like
eye holes were ever cut, which would most likely cheapen the
whole look of the mask. Whatever the case, I still
wouldn't mind having one of these.
|
|
11-23-07
Fox and Tortle Show Theme |
|
 The
Fox and Tortle Show was the
brainchild of Nathan Newell
and myself. Nathan did all of the heavy lifting designing
the graphics, and pretty much everything else, while I simply consulted on the first couple of episodes. Something I did create however, was a theme song for the shows
intro. I found it today while digging through the old
M.P.S. archives. Here it is, in all of its eleven seconds
of glory...
The Fox and Tortle Show
Theme
|
|
11-18-07 The M.P.S.
Second coming |
|
That's right kids.. The M.U.S.C.L.E.
Preservation Society is back! As many of you are aware, The
original M.P.S. site shut down a few years ago. I left the
site in the hands of another collector to maintain with
disastrous results. Distraught at what my creation had
become, I made a couple of feeble attempts to bring the site
back in different form. First came Darrin's M.U.S.C.L.E.
Dojo, and then The M.U.S.C.L.E. Guild. Both focused on
M.U.S.C.L.E. as well as other toy lines, but neither site ever
really took off. The sites lacked proper focus, and the
varied content tended to take attention away from The
M.U.S.C.L.E. toy line.
Early in the spring of 2007 after
months of discussion, my good
friend Jason Radneicki of M.C.W. fame and myself decided to
bring our sites back, if for no other reason than posterity.
We wanted to give the newer collectors in the hobby a taste of
what our online sub-culture used to be like waaaaay back in the
20th century during the early days of internet. We also
thought that the old timers in the hobby would enjoy a nice
walk down memory lane.
With that being said, it's with
great pride that I unveil the new M.U.S.C.L.E. Preservation
Society web-site. Within these pages you will find scads
of information, memories, and collecting info. In the
months and years to come, the site will continue to grow and
evolve as we add new findings, experiences, and anything else
remotely related to our great hobby. So take a look
around, and experience the wonder that is M.U.S.C.L.E.
|
|
11-17-07 Interesting
M.U.S.C.L.E. Video Game facts
Darrin M. Vindiola Jr. |
|
This site's very first official
post! |
In honor of the grand
reopening of
The
MPS, I thought I'd do a write up on MUSCLE/Kinnikuman/Ultimate
Muscle video Games.
MUSCLE Tag Team match
This was a game for the original 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment
System. It was a wrestling game where you could fight as
some of the MUSCLE characters. This game ended up
showing us some of the wrestlers names. One for example
is Terry man, who in the original
Kinnikuman was the best friend of
Kinnikuman (Muscleman in English) Anyway, Because
Nintendo used the name
Terry man,
Terri Bull's name had to be changed into his
original Japanese name, Buffalo man. Did you know that
in the original version of the MUSCLE game, there was a
character that was replaced by Geronimo? You
Kinnikuman fans may know him as
Blocken man. Apparently, because of his relation
to Nazis, he had to be taken out of the American
version of the game. Geronimo and
Blocken man both have the projectile special
move, only Geronimo threw axes, and
Blocken man threw strange blobs.
Ultimate MUSCLE Legends vs New Generation
M.U.S.C.L.E. (sort of) made a return in America as Ultimate
Muscle. In this series, Muscle man (Now known as
King muscle) has a son that takes his place in the
wrestling ring. The Ultimate Muscle game, kind of plays
like the original
NES game, but better! It was released sometime
during 2002.
I remember playing a demo of this game for
the Game Cube when it first came out. The demo was
taken from the popular Japanese version of the game, and
instead of translating it, the original Japanese voices
where kept in! They probably thought translation wasn't
necessary since it was only a demo.
I actually played this game a few days ago. As you
rack up points, you get credits to buy toys in the game
both new and old. If you're a fan of MUSCLE, then you
may recognize a few of these little rubber guys.
For the
heck of it, I bought my Dad's childhood favorite The Fox
M.U.S.C.L.E. #124, and I noticed that he was named
wrong. Rather than Fox man, his name was Forks man!
Quite a funny mistranslation if I say so myself!
Also in the game were recruit wrestlers. Some of
these guys were created for the game and then appeared
in the Anime
later on! In the game you use their body parts
for the somewhat
disappointing yet fun custom character mode.
If you look in the Audience in certain levels, you
may spot some familiar faces from the past and present
series. Some of the characters included are
Cube man, a
Rubik's cube like wrestler, Sgt.
Kinnikuman, a brother to
Kinnikuman/King Muscle,
Tape recorder man, whose name speaks for itself,
and
Monsieur cheeks, a disturbing wrestler with a
butt for a face.
I know that there are other Japanese releases that I've never
played, but if I ever do, I will
definitely
cover them here.
|
|
Old M.P.S. Poll
from 1998 |
|
A poll from the
old M.P.S. Members only site! |
|
 During
the construction of this site, I searched through dozens of old
floppy disks from The M.P.S. archives, and came across tons of
stuff that I had forgotten about until now. One such
tidbit was an online poll we ran back in 1998 on the members
only web-site. Here are the questions and results of said
poll..
WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE M.U.S.C.L.E.?
And the least most popular M.U.S.C.L.E.'s of 1998 are..
7, 10, 19, 38, 41, 44, 95, 99, 107, 184, 186, 195, 203
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOR OF M.U.S.C.L.E.?
The favorite color was good old classic pink.
The runners up were green, neon-orange, dark blue, and red.
IF YOU HAD TO EAT A M.U.S.C.L.E...
WHICH ONE WOULD IT BE?
The Results....
7, 20, 33, 60, 85, 99, 107, 162, 189, 195, 202
The common logic seemed to be that no one wanted to swallow a
M.U.S.C.L.E. which couldn't easily pass through their lower
extremities. For instance, could you imagine the end result of
eating M.U.S.C.L.E. #15 or #64? OUCH!!
|
| |
|
|
|
