7: HB Recon Type - 8: Personal Floater - 9: Bazooka - 10: Monoseed - 11: Action Figure Type 1 (White)
12: Action Figure Type 2 (Brown) - Prototypes - Hyper Image Album - SD Toys - Other Stuff
Welcome to the internet's first and only site dedicated to Bandai's SPIRAL ZONE toy line! As you can already see, the Japanese version of SPIRAL ZONE is a lot different than the U.S. version. The toys are more articulated and have more of a "military" feel to them. However, one can definitely see where the inspiration for the U.S. version of SPIRAL ZONE came from! Conceptualized by Gundam mecha designers Kunio Okawara and Kazuhisa Kondo, the Special Force Group SPIRAL ZONE series depicts four different teams of special operations soldiers (Fireball, Razorback, Machine Head, Bluesight) fighting a war in the early 21st century. The line only had 12 items, organized into Acts. They include: three 1:12 scale six-inch figures with full equipment codenamed Bull Solid, Hyper Boxer, and Sentinel Bear, two Bull Solid cloth uniform and armor sets, two Hyper Boxer cloth uniform and armor sets, two equipment backpacks, two bare human figures, and one vehicle called the Monoseed. Non-toy media includes a notebook, a novel, and a LP/story compilation released in 1986 by Warner Brothers and Pioneer Corporation called Hyper Image Album. The LP disc in particular contains songs composed by Toshiyuki Watanabe and performed by Tomoko Aran, with the accompanying stories written by Kazunori Ito. He wrote the novel with HEADGEAR colleague Akemi Takada as illustrator. The series' story and other machines, such as a mobile base and special transport for the Monoseeds, were also detailed in Bandai's Model Making Journal. Bandai had plans to release a fourth action figure (codenamed Fireball) and additional vehicles before the line was cancelled. They include a tank, a small flight pod called the Beaufighter, a radio-controlled assault jeep called the Fat Lynx, two different 4WD vehicles called the Twin Beagle and Sky Hound, a fast-attack vehicle called the Mad Lemming, a bipedal mech, two personal transport backpacks, and the Monoseed Mk II assault cycle. The unreleased vehicles later appeared in the series' gashapon line, which also had a special SPIRAL ZONE super-deformed board game and other products not developed in 1:12 scale, such as new personal mecha units, weapon packs, and three figures (codenamed Zone Bolt, Eagle Eye, and Zone Acorn). Enjoy
exploring the origins of the U.S. SPIRAL ZONE!
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