Ultraman has had such a colorful array
of evil monsters to battle over the years. Some of them range from
the totally believable to the extremely bizarre and everywhere in
between. Over the years his villains have gone through amazing
overhauls where their physical appearance and abilities have been
augmented with technology and magical powers. As the Ultraman saga
has evolved over the last several decades, so has he and his
opponents. Aboras is one of those many characters
(a shot of the original costume. Lots of reused elements)
(not only a battle of the behemoths, but in a stadium no less)
Often being mistaken for a blue
Godzilla-like creature by those not aware of it, this creature has
been around since some of the most early incarnations of the saga. In
the Ultraman Powered story, Aboras is one of two ancient devil beasts
(or kaiju) sealed away in a magical sarcophagus' long ago in an
attempt to save the world from their terror. His arch-nemesis is
Banila, a red bipedal monster with almost matched skills. When both
tombs were “accidentally” unearthed, both of these titans decided
to battle it out until only one was left standing. In the first
incarnation, Aboras won and was destroyed shortly after by Ultraman.
The second time around Aboras seemed to be victorious but Banila
reformed and both were destroyed by Ultraman and the WINR by using a
combination of high frequency sound to stun them and a Mega Spectrum
Ray to vaporize them.
(new and improved)
Aboras' reintroduction into the
Ultraman saga was met with a complete upgrade. Because of budget
constraints, Aboras was an altered Red King costume painted blue and
a new head. The Powered version has a really cool tyrannosaurus rex
look with a tadpole-like tail while keeping the more elongated arms
and horn on his head. The figure captures every aspect of the
redesign, especially capturing every single bumpy scale along the
body. It's a really substantial toy and feels really good in your
hand. He's not really oversized to any degree, just big considering
the fact he's a friggin' mutant T-Rex. The figure fits in well with
the rest of the series and (from what I can tell) is in scale.
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