This vintage eraser figure playset (聖鬥士世紀擂台爭霸戰) brought back a lot of my childhood memories. I used to collect those eraser capsule toys and battle them with my classmates in elementary school. There is a diagram on the right picture above shows how to play the game with robber miniatures. When the play pull the stick, the miniatures also spins. Nintendo Famicom didn’t come out till my 4th grade, so before I went digital I had great fun with these toys. Out of the capsule, Phoenix Ikki is the strongest because of his wide spread tails. However, after people realized the gestures of these eraser toys can be modified with hot water or a lighter, it didn’t matter anymore. Anyway, I’ve been wanted to re-design this playset and print the pieces out with 3D printer.
I try to look for the playset every now and them. I am pretty sure this battle playset is Taiwan only. I have been a faithful Ebay and Japanese Yahoo auction buyer since 2001 and I haven’t seen the Japanese version of this playset. A good friend of mine dug up the above pictures from his archive and gave them to me and that is all I have. During the research, I’ve discovered a few deluxe playsets for Saint Seiya by Bandai and few other DragonBall Z and MEGA Bloks Power Rangers playsets that had adopted the battle mechanism.
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