Revenge of the Retro Japanese Toy Adverts

Those inflatable ride on toys- with the seats, unbearably cool!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

Yeah, they are the most fun adverts i've found in a while. I wonder how many of those inflatables survive today.

 

Some nice scans of an old Volks resin kit catalogue. My guess would be mid-80's?

 

^^ Yeah, there's a massive difference between having a bash at painting a kit and actually doing a semi-professional job.
I learned that when i painted my Revell Rat Fink . . . .

More VOLKS, folks . . . .

 

Another nice one.
Popy 1975.

 

Wow I need those Gachapin & Mukku, and Girl on swing with Bird pendants... So cool!

 

Latest promo showcase from sofvi.tokyo

 

Bullmark Mechander Robot etc

 

Just found this on my hard drive, I'm pretty sure i haven't posted it here before . . .
If i have, who cares - its worth posting twice!

 

^ So great ! Would love to have a Gamera & one of those King Gidorah/Mothra sets. Sunguts has great toys, and this doesn't scratch the surface considering all the Kitaro not pictured.

 

^^ Yeah, the Akuma-kun and GeGeGe no Kitaro stuff would take up a couple of pages on their own.

 

Sanuki Folk Crafts Museum 'To see the toys'.

 

I just picked this up recently and think pretty much anyone following this thread is going to find some stuff they like in there. Mostly geared toward robot stuff it's pretty jam packed:

http://www.blurb.com/b/6401817-art-of-advertising-vol-1

 

^^ Looks really cool . . .

How is the scan / print quality? 8x10 is a pretty good size.