What are these bootleg mini figures?

Those are by SOMA

I remember buying a bunch as a kid in the '80s.

Here's a pic of some boxed:

Here are some more ninjas. I had all of these guys when I was a kid. They probably only had a small handful of bodies and just a bunch of repaints

Soma's own Wrestler indeed, in all their chubby glory!

I allow myself to cut n' paste a post I made about them on the Little Rubber Guys forum (some of the infos are already covered):



Here's the 6 wrestler sculpt with 3 color variation at the exception of the bearded / facepaint one. Here a quick list of variant I found so far with some pics:

- Long-haired guy with belt and robe - Yellow, green and blue cape.
- Balding, handlebar mustached guy (Hulk Hogan) - Red cape, Blue cape (white hair and 'stache), green cape with black paint and dark hair.
- Masked Luchador guy - Red Mask and green cape, Blue mask and red cape, Green Mask and blue cape.
- Bald guy (King Kong Bundy) - in red, blue (with lipstick) and yellow (with mustache).
- Bearded guy with face paint (Road Warrior guy) - Red pants, blue pants.
- Bearded guy with smile and headband - In red, blue (both with blonde hair) and yellow (with dark hair and beard).









As of note, some have "plain" and some have neon colors. Same for the ninjas and Karateka guys from Soma as well. I guess the neon color came later in the 1980's or the early 1980's. The first batch seems to be from 1986.
The plain plastic range from soft to pretty hard, all neon are soft. In my finding at least.

Soma also produced a 6 figures Monster serie looking like My Pet Monster guys on the same scale as the ninja and wrestlers.

In all, chubby bundle of wrestling fun

They're actually very cheap. Looking at past ebay auctions, paying $1 per figure seems on the high side.

I had these!

They're still around in storage somewhere. I took them out of the box as a kid, but I can remember that box art now that you posted it.

Thanks for the pics and info! This is why I love this place.

i def had all of those ninjas and will def be looking for these

i always thought that it was a bit prophetic that one of them looks exactly like what hogan would end up looking like 10 years after these were made but at the time these actually were produced hogan didnt really look like that.