Not Japanese toys or soft vinyl, but a cool Vice video on the fall of Homies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORE2kqA1HD8
A handful of friends and myself started collecting homies in grade school. Where I grew up in Phoenix, the quarter machines with 'em were a plenty. We slowed down pretty hard once we realized just how many there were, though. Pretty interesting to see the guy that was behind their release!
Thankfully this latest episode of The Suckhour is mostly about toys - some pretty interesting stories told by Lev from Toy Tokyo. https://youtu.be/QA8wY0pNMYk
More of a little condensed history of the turtles interview with Kevin Eastman. Still tons of eye candy around the studio and a little toy talk in there, all round a great video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4NaepoUJD0
I watched because Lev was on, he's an interesting dude. Cool to hear his history. So weird to listen to resin guys and their perception. It's a totally different view. It actually makes me really appreciative that I don't make resin and make vinyl. And have collectors who actually appreciate artistic ability and support artists, because they see the value. It's not all about self promotion or timing bootleg drops with star wars press conferences
Idk if this was posted but here is some really cool history on Star Wars Rare production pieces that never made it to stores as well as Star Wars bootleg figures.
The whole "YouTube personality" phenomenon escapes me for the most part. I'm very quick to find this kind of thing highly grating.
this lunatic posts a constant stream of awesome Ultraman battles and general toy fun with great sound fx
Very, very interesting look into the Chinese vinyl process! Especially the vinyl shooting out of a hose into the molds.
