Shinsei: UFO Commander 7 • シンセイ工業 UFOコマンダー7

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…

Ark

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

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: 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…

Big Bear

Big Bear

Like a movie that is premiered, then makes its way to a second-run theater, then to video, then to…