Department store toy displays 1976 Popy / Super Alloy / Jumbo Machine Zehnder etc Super Alloy / Microman Superalloy Great Mazinger / Popy etc 1975
I love modular toys, so those Aoshima ones rule! I confess I was imagining them a bit larger until I saw the children holding them. What I wouldn't give just to be able to wander those toy shops when these photos were taken. Even if I couldn't bring toys back with me, the experience alone would be a treasure I would never forget.
Purahobi Trade Fair 1974 Bandai model booth Aoshima booth Osaka Toy Fair 1975 Popy booth Takara booth Microman sales floor 1975 Shizuoka plastic model trade fair 1977 Electric Sky Ace Rashiki Prototype Aoshima booth
Nice vintage 80's leaflet . . . these always take me back. I still have The Tron & Frogger hand-helds (along with a few other survivors from back in the day).
Man, those LCD handhelds.... they might have been shitty, and people/kids today probably don't even comprehend it, but boy did we love them. Hours and hours (and countless batteries) spend pushing those buttons for the same outcome. Gash darnit, now I am I feeling mighty nostalgic. <sniff> Love the Marusan model kits, still one of my favourite Garamons ever made. Thank the maker for NH doing the wonderful vinyl reissues. Those Nitto wind-ups are so crazy! I wonder if they were metal, or if that is 'metalisized' paint? They all have such incredible detail and wonderful menacing features. The Gamera is the best for me.
They look metal to me, but its hard to tell. Sweepstakes Department Store 1967 Promo leaflet featuring Marusan.
Those Superman adverts are great! So the big guy loves mochi, who'd a thunk it? * but then, doesn't everybody?! I would go in for one of those coffee makers too. Ah, the frightening villainous Lex. He is the Luthor we deserved, but alas not the one we got.
Yeah, i like the way they have written out the Japanese phonetically in the thought-bubbles, to remind everyone that Superman is a Gaijin.
That toy catalogue/festival brochure (?) remind me, the one other thing I would just love to see, in addition the comprehensive Bearmodel guide, is a lineup of all the US Toys made and variants done through the years. Seriously, they have been at this for a long time, and have done a ton of work, and yet no one - that I know of anyways, or have ever been able to find - has documented them. Their blog lists some older releases, but it barely scratches the surface.
Pity this old snap is a bit low-res . . . I like the way this kid has most of his toys set-up fighting each other. As it should be.
