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I honestly had no idea what these things were, my cousin gave them to me back in the very late 80s/early 90s and said that they're called musclemen without any further explanation. I would just mess around with them and create random storylines, like most kids do with toys (or used to, I don't know if kids still have imaginations or if they need an app for it). I called them "musclemen" for roughly two decades before I learned about Kinnikuman. Then I was blown away when Bandai announced the SHF ones, and I looked at my little collection of mini toys and saw that some of them were getting Figuarts version.
And right now, the few musclemen that my cousin gave me are sitting atop my cable box, and the SHF ones that I bought are chilling in my main collection.