08/27/2024
Soft vinyl figures are a staple of many Japanese toy collecting fandoms, but as seen in our Figure Guide, Godzilla fans in particular face a sofubi feast.
Traditionally, sofubi are cast and sometimes painted in relatively smaller runs, with their centrifuge-spun parts hand-pulled and assembled by craftspeople. Some modern soft vinyl figures, however, are mass produced using machines for casting, cutting, and painting. These aren't widely considered sofubi by longtime collectors looking for specifically-constructed figures, but can generally fall under a soft vinyl figure banner.
While precise scales are hard to pin down on most toy lines given the breadth of monster sizes in the Godzilla canon, thanks to longtime and modern manufacturers like Bandai, CCP, Marusan, Medicom, Mondo, Secret Base, Spiral Studio, and others collectors can treat themselves to Godzilla figures across a host of sizes.
Here's a range of where select soft vinyl figure lines stand (and in some cases, sit), from shortest to tallest. All sizes are, of course, approximate as figures vary across manufacturers and specific figure lines.
- CCP Middle Size Series (traditional sofubi): Approximately 4.72"/12 cm
- Medicom (traditional and modern): Approximately 5.9-13.78"/15-35 cm
- Bandai Movie Monster Series (modern soft vinyl): Approximately 6"/15.25 cm
- Marusan (traditional sofubi): Approximately 10.24"/26cm
- Spiral Studio (traditional sofubi): Approximately 10.5-11.5"/26.67-29.21 cm
- Secret Base (traditional sofubi): Approximately 11.81"/30 cm
- Mondo (modern soft vinyl): Approximately 12"/30.48 cm
Check out a kaiju-scale selection of new, exclusive, and hard-to-find sofubi from the most iconic toy manufacturers now at the Godzilla Store.