Trigun The Planet Gunsmoke (Kaiyodo)

Trigun: The Planet Gunsmoke
Company	TOYTRIBE
Manufacturer	Kaiyodo
Country	Japan
Designer	Yasuhiro Nightow
Sculptor
Type
Scale	1/12
Material	ABS/PVC
First release	March 3, 2000
Last release	2005

This article is about the Kaiyodo toyline. For other uses of "Trigun: The Planet Gunsmoke", see Trigun: The Planet Gunsmoke (disambiguation).

Trigun: The Planet Gunsmoke is a toyline by Kaiyodo.

Overview

The World

Over a century has passed already since hundreds of immigrating spaceships had fallen on the planet. Under the scorching dual suns and hot sand raging in the wind, people barely survive on  the surface of the planet, dependent on the technology left on the spaceships. In an environment exposed to severe thirst and hunger, what rules this harsh world are the most fundamental concepts of survival. In the smell of blood and gunsmoke. Violence takes the shape of lead bullets and rules the land. Entrusting their lives to ugly but beautiful steel weapons, the scoundrels begin their feast again today...

Characters

Character	Variants	Repaints
Vash the Stampede	Shades No shades	Sinister Black version (both variants) Crystal Clear Version (Wonderfest 2004) (glasses)
Nicholas D. Wolfwood	Regular Bloody	Wonderfest 2000 Exclusive
Meryl Stryfe
Monev the Gale		Wonderfest 2001 Exclusive Sub-Zero Attack (Diamond Comics Exclusive) Phantom Cyborg (Hyper Hobby Exclusive)
Gazelle the Peacemaker		Black Beast
Kuroneko-sama	Sitting (included with Vash) Hanging on (included with Meryl)	Mischievous eyes (Sitting variant only, included with Sinister Black version Vash)

Gallery

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  Vash's cardback.

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  Vash's package front (empty).

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  Meryl's cardback.

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  Meryl's package front (empty).

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  Wolfwood's cardback.

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  Wolfwood's package front (empty) with manufacturing error.

Notes

• Some releases of Wolfwood have a manufacturing error where the print on the plastic part of the package is upside-down.
• The original release of Gazelle's Black Beast repaint was recalled due to being shipped with missing parts. Kaiyodo offered exchanges and replacements to customers who received the defective toys.
• The gag cover artwork for Young King Comics' Trigun Volume 1 features a drawing of Vash holding the shades variant of the Planet Gunsmoke Vash figure.
• Nightow talks about the Planet Gunsmoke toyline in the extra comic included in Trigun Maximum Volume 4: Bottom Of The Dark.

References

• http://web.archive.org/web/20010424061308/http://www.j-hobby.com/kms_jpn/product.asp?dept_id=0&sku=vaf_af084