An epic adventure of pork buns and box variants
Pork buns… As the tradition goes, every once in a while, various boys and girls from the East coast…
Bandai Vinyl Attraction
So, Ray says “more vinyl…” It’s about 80 yards from I Ping alley to the Ding Hao basement arcade, and a long way…
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…
Who’s Your Daddy? The Astonishing Collection of Warren Schwartz
1: The Toyhole Stardate: Whatever. Alen and I are on an annual two-day binge to survey the outer fringes of…
Lost And Found Ark
The following is a translated excerpt from the recently published biography of toy-business luminary Saburo Ishizuki, My Work at Marusan and…
DOA: DOA — The Death of Day Old Antiques
5:45 PM. The City of Cambridge mis-stickers street cleaning. The rat bastards tow my ride to the dead fringes…
De-Basement, Part 2: Alt POV
Sausage and Bottom-feeding Boston I was a bit tight money-wise on my last trip to Boston. I knew I…
De-Basement, Part 1
Info Minister Alt lands in Boston for a tactical detente! Before picking him up, I charge the Dustbuster and stock…
Josh Goes to Japan
Well, I figure it is about time that I get my act together and finally write about my last…
Bandai’s High Complete Models
The High Complete Models were a set of highly detailed toys released during the ’80s by Bandai, representing giant robots from several…
CHOGOKIN SUMMIT II: Electric Boogaloo
Groovy Pictchas by Professor Big Science “The second of the not-so-legendary CHOGOKIN SUMMITS took place in Cape Cod, Massachusetts on September 11th, attended…
An Interview with Kanzen Hentaro
Conducted and translated by Matt Alt and Secret Press Agent Hiroko. Photography courtesy of Superpatron Warren Schwartz. ToyboxDX was lucky…
An Ode to Momo-Ranger
A Feminist Manifesto By Secret Press Agent Hiroko As you probably already know, Goranger was the first Sentai show in my country,…
Magic Box Blues
Ten A.M. It’s freezing outsize, raining, and I’m on a packed train. I’ve already been up for four-and-a-half hours already,…