![[Grip Toy]](images/griptoy_mast.gif)
Grip Toy: Get a Grip!
text: Matt Alt, graphics: Robert Duban
June 2006
updated: 06.24.06
![[Dragonar 1]](images/dragonar_sm.gif)
Not to be confused with the "Grip" series of toys sold by the
Eidai Corporation,
"Grip Toy" appears to be yet another minor brand name
employed by that master of disguise, Bandai.
Some "Grip Toy" packages feature the ubiquitous "P" logo found
on Victora and Robin
products. Others sport the "Y" logo used by Bandai
subsidiary Yutaka.
A handful of "Grip Toys" also feature the text "Marukoshi Incorporated," an Asakusa-based toy manufacturer that supplies toys
to a wide variety of companies and is currently helmed by former
Bullmark executive Saburo Ishizuki.
The toys are a rather mixed grab-bag of characters, but there is a
strange theme running through many of them: guns. More than a few are
boxed play-sets containing a character toy and a BB-pellet firing
"bazooka" toy. Although Grip Toy is hardly the only manufacturer of
such playthings ("Big Bear" comes to mind), it's a peculiar genre of
character toys, to be sure.
The following list is a work in progress, merely a first attempt at
cataloging a handful of Grip Toy products. Undoubtedly Grip Toy
fanatics -- all one or two of you -- will uncover more in the future. |
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Batten Robomaru | |
1982 | |
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Cat Ninden Teyande - Yattaro Deka | |
1990 | |
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Dragonar 1 [box] | |
1987 | |
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Super Bazooka Dragonar | |
1987 | |
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Dragonball Z - Super Saya-jin Goku | |
1989 | |
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Dragonball Z - Super Saya-jin Vegeta | |
1989 | |
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Fiveman - Five Robo BB Bazooka | |
1990 | |
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Fiveman - Super Five Robo | |
1990 | |
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Fiveman Series No 05 - Five Yellow | |
1990 | |
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Fiveman - Fi-blaster | |
1990 | |
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Jiban Deadly Weapons Set | |
1989 | |
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Jiraya | |
1988 | |
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Jiraya - Jiraishin | |
1988 | |
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Liveman - Super Bazooka Live Robo | |
1988 | |
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Liveman - Red Falcon | |
1988 | |
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Liveman - Moto Machine Set | |
1988 | |
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Liveman - Moto Machine Set w. Blue Dolphin | |
1988 | |
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Maskman - Super Bazooka Great Five | |
1987 | |
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Maskman - Mascroder-Set | |
1987 | |
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Saint Seiya - #1 - Taurus Cross | |
1986 | |
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Saint Seiya - #3 - Libra Cross | |
1986 | |
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Turboranger - Turbo Balance Game | |
1989 | |
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Turboranger - Flying Turbo Brace | |
1989 | |
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