Very few Wrestlers in Japan could touch the level of product that has
featured Inoki's image over the last 60 years. A number of figures that
is easy to lose track of.
Here's another Japanese figure some of you may have never seen before.
Blog #289 Antonio Inoki Sound Bank 2001 Millennium Model
Known in Japan as:アントニオ猪木 サウンドバンク
The
closest thing to having the real Antonio Inoki shouting his famous
catchphrases in your home. This sound bank was released in 2001.
The packaging mentions that this is the 2001 millennium model.
As
for advertising, the box also displays two soundbites 'arigato' and
'1-2-3-Daaa!'. The top left corner states that inserting a coin will play Inoki's Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye theme song, too.
The
packaging can be broken up into a shelve display and a regular box.
Extra steps were certainly taken to make sure this bank wasn't broken in
transit.
The back of the box provides a brief bio on Inoki's Wrestling career. Even mentioning Rikidozan discovering a young Inoki while on a Wrestling excursion in Brazil.
Coins are placed into the back of the bank, which then activates a sound clip of one of Inoki's catchphrases.
It's quite common to find these obscurities still polybagged.
To give you an idea on scale, the Inoki sound bank placed next to the HAO Collection Inoki statue and Sound Money Bank figures.
Like the HAO Collection Inoki polystone statue, the Inoki sound bank also includes a fabric fight towel stitched with Inoki's 'Fighting Spirit' signature in gold, along with Inoki's name in white directly underneath.
The Inoki Sound Bank was made by Iwaya in Japan. The same manufacturer that released Inoki keychains with sound clips as well.
The Inoki Sound Bank is mentioned on the back of the keychain figures' packaging.
