Shinsei: UFO Commander 7 • シンセイ工業 UFOコマンダー7
Text: Matt Alt + Robert Duban, Images: Josh Fraser + Alen YenToys courtesy of the Solondz Collection “UFO Commander…
Ansony: In Too Deep
By Matt Alt and Robert Duban As a collector, you’ve got to be pretty far gone to care about…
Ark
Ark’s series of six “Arklon” diecast monster toys represent everything that’s right about Japanese toy-design. Founded in the mid-1970s as…
Apex
Warrior of Love: Rainbowman is not the name of a gay superhero. It is, in fact, the title of a…
Aoshin: Triked Glory
Aoshin, like Yonezawa and Nomura, was an older toy company with roots in Japan’s “golden age” of post-war tin toy manufacturing. In…
Banso’s Plastic Toys
BIG THANKS TO THOMAS WELLS FOR HIS HELP WITH THIS PAGE (VISIT HIS GATCHAMAN TOY WEBSITE!) Looking for obscure fun? “Banso” is…
Big Bear
Like a movie that is premiered, then makes its way to a second-run theater, then to video, then to…