Monkey King's Armory

The One Weapon That Was Never Supposed to Hold Still

In the novel, the Monkey King's staff has exactly one defining trick: it changes size on command. It starts out as a pillar pinning down the ocean floor, shrinks to a needle he keeps behind his ear, and comes back big enough to prop up the sky whenever the story needs it to. Which makes a zinc alloy version a small joke at its own expense — the one object in Chinese literature that flatly refuses to have a fixed length, and here it is, permanently 40 cm. The rest of the shelf is more cooperative: Erlang Shen's three-pointed spear and his mountain-splitting axe, a demon king's iron fork, and several things the studio made up outright. More on all of it in our long read on these staffs. For the dragon-boss crowd, there’s the Golden Loong Staff — 35cm of matte-gold dragons on a teal shaft, shot in our own studio.

Where to Start

Three ways in. For the piece everyone comes here for, Jingubang — gold bands, iron shaft, and a length that will not fit in a normal display case. For the most technically interesting shape on the page, the Tri-Point Double-Edged Spear with a blade running down both sides of the head. And for something that looks like it's still on fire, Red Tides.

Shot by Us

Die-cast zinc alloy, hand-finished, with every edge and point cast blunt — display collectibles, recommended for ages 14+. This shelf leans hard toward pole weapons, with slim staffs and broader blades offering different weights in the hand. Exact dimensions and grams are listed on each product page. Every photo on this page is ours — shot in our own studio, of the exact piece we ship. No CGI, no renders, no supplier images. A recent addition to this vault is the Chitin Staff — 66g of cast-blunt zinc alloy, shot in our own studio.

Keep Exploring

The staffs gather in Metal Staff Replicas, the odd shapes in Exotic Weapon Replicas, the polearms have a rack of their own in Metal Spear Replicas, and the neighbouring shelf of Chinese legend is the Three Kingdoms Armory. On the lighter end of this shelf, the 22cm Loongwreathe Staff pairs two gold-toned dragons with a dark shaft. Also in the armory: the Zodiac Tiger Sabre — 35cm (13.8"), 309g (10.9 oz) of die-cast zinc alloy, photographed in our own studio. One of the longer-handled pieces in this armory is the Three-Pronged Fork — a 34cm trident, cast blunt and shot in our own studio. For a spear-headed staff from Chapter 3, the Chu-Bai Spear measures 35cm (13.8") and weighs 177g (6.2 oz) in die-cast zinc alloy, with every edge and point cast blunt.