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Bill - who has written 8 posts on ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected.
Bill has been collecting toys and lurking about Japantown since the 70's. He cannot confirm nor deny that a small pile of Popy and Bullmark vinyls from his childhood still clutters his bathtub.
If you’ve been collecting vinyl Godzilla and similar monster figures for any length of time, chances you’re well aware of a range of style, accuracy and detail that’s so wide that even the most diehard toyfan has difficulty taking it all in! From the earliest models and vinyls from original companies such as Marusan, Bullmark and [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 23, 2008
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How can you not love Parababies? Since the 90’s, Marmit has been mixing stylish interpretation with realism to produce some of my favorite modern vinyls. Although early figures of the Parababy line tended to be lacking in detail (if not quirky charm), the series seemed to find itself in subsequent years as their artistic license [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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If you’re a tokusatsu fan, you probably already know that Den-O is the 17th and latest installment in a long running Kamen (or Masked) Rider series. A collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei Studios, Den-O ran from January 2007 to January 2008 and has inspired not just one but two motion pictures in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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Wondering what all is in store for this weekend’s LIFT show? MADL CITIZENS 10″ DIY Mad*L Custom Show is already spawning some ‘fascinating’ works. This one by Cris Rose is titled Fascination and incorporates rich azure hues and a subdued Victorian floral wallpaper pattern that together seem to me both nostalgic and pensive. On the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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No matter how the October winds of political Change may be blowing now, we ought not to forget that our current powers that be have already seen fit to make us a nation at war… Whether we like it or not! So, it seems only fitting that DrilOne has made a bold statement in these [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 20, 2008
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The Ultraseven episode #45, ‘Flying Saucers Have Arrived (The Stargazer); a.k.a. ENBAN GA KITA‘, aired in 1968 and introduced fans to the invading Alien Perolynga (a.k.a. Peroringa-Seijin). This episode is remembered for one of the most ‘differently’ presented fight sequences of the series. Marmit has now revived this colorful extraterrestrial in three 1:6 scale, 30cm [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 16, 2008
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Recently, Marmit has been making fans of Kaiju vinyls very happy with their 1995 or ‘DESUGOJI’ (the suit from Godzilla vs. Destroyer) Godzilla toys. This is a striking sculpt to begin with, accentuating the bulk and mass of the suit as well as the trademark ridged bumps that make up Godzilla’s iconic rough hide. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 16, 2008
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Coming in January 2009, Marmit is unleashing a prepainted and assembled version of their jumbo 60cm (just about two feet tall) Alien kit. It’s a drop-dead gorgeous and meticulously detailed rendition of the titular ‘Big Chap’ Alien from the 1979 classic Ridley Scott film. Limited to mail-order, this Real Paint Kit will be JPY [...]
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
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