Never seen that Creature Features board game before! Found a link with some info and nice pics. It was basically Monopoly, but unfortunately didn't come with little pewter monster playing pieces. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1609/creature-features
^^ Nice, thanks for the research. It looks like a nicely produced game, even though its just ripping off monopoly, like you say.
^^ Yeah mate, i love old photos like this. I've started a separate 'identify the toy' type thread' . . . http://www.skullbrain.org/bb/index.php?threads/guess-the-kaiju-toys-from-an-old-photograph.51166/
Great pic, haha. I looked up the blog out of interest and the story that goes with it is quite nice: This is me as a child, surrounded by kaijuu. These kaijuu of mine continued to grow in number, but then, around the middle of Kaettekita Ultraman, my interest shifted to pro-wrestling, baseball, and comics, and the kaijuu were left neglected. At the time, my father was opening an eye clinic, and so it was decided that they would be taken there for children to play with in the waiting room. I refused, but my father told me (in a know-it-all sort of way) that "toys are to be played with - the toys don't want to just be shut away in a box!" I kept only my favourite figure(s), and the rest headed to the clinic. In no time at all, not one of them was left - all taken home as 'souvenirs'. I hope they went to good homes. My generation grew up smack-bang in the middle of the kaijuu boom, and so quite a lot of us have been traumatised by similar events - they were thrown away upon entering junior high school, etc, etc. These are the people who now, as adults, want to buy old toys and re-edition figures. So now we know why these toys are so ridiculously expensive - all the traumatised doctors and lawyers want them back.
That's actually cool little story. Suddenly I don't hate the kid for having a better collection then than I do now anymore.
Damn, I always loved those Masudaya hand puppets so much! I wonder that that they changed the Garamon from that concept art to have arms to be more in line with the others. Not that the final version isn't just amazingly lovely, and melts my heart every time, but that one in the catalogue sure looks pretty. I love his rotund body! Spoiler: more pics for saving
^^ The one with no arms kinda looks like a bottle-stopper. Here's a scanned 'stamp ledger' from an 'Ultraman Stamp Rally'. Similar to the one i've previously posted of the 'Shigeru Mizuki road'. There were 65 train stations participating apparently, you have to visit each location to stamp each character in the book. I did a similar one when i visited Japan in 2008 but that was for historical sites, castles etc . . .
^^ Yeah, whoever designed those stamps really knew what they were doing. Post-it note fun from Japan. http://garakuta.chips.jp/blog/archives/2015/12/151211killigraph_ultraman.php
I always really wanted to do that stamp rally. Seems like a whole lotta fun, even not being an UItraman fan. Great way to see a lot of interesting areas, and I imagine encountering some like-hearted people along the way is a blast too. Alas, it is hard enough to find one's way around there most times, I would definitely need a local's help I'd imagine.
I'm all for guys wearing scarfs if they can pull it off, but that one doesn't even match. In fact nothing he's got on seems to match
^^ Haha, i did'nt even notice the scarf. I was looking at the toys! It does look a bit out of place, doesn't it.
^ Well I enjoyed those, thanks for posting David. And I think I am going to blow some of those post-its up and make a stencil or 2