KAIJU IS JAPANESE FOR MONSTER
Hi and thanks for taking a look - my names Robert I've been collecting toys for 20 years - One of my main interests is Kaiju Vinyl Monster Figures from Japan - I collect Vintage figures from 1960's thru the 1980's these are made of hollow thin plastic (referred to as vinyl) and range in size from 3" to 10" tall -
The history of manufacturing of these figures is as follows Marusan (a gepany well known for making classic tin toys) manufactured some of the earliest and coolest Godzilla figures in themid 1960's - If you've ever seen the movie "Godzilla's Revenge"(1969) there is a seen where the kid "Ichiro" is seen playing with a number of vintage Godzilla figures - These figures tend to be of a cruder design, but that crudeness tends to make them much cooler and harder to find they can be found in mini (3') medium (6') and standard size (9") many of this original figures have been reproduced - original by Bullmark in the 1970's, Bandai in the late 1990'S more recently as 3" figures in header carded bags by IWAKURA for the 50th anniversary set
JAPAN ONLY POPY GODZILLA FIGURES and CATALOG PAGE
There are also some great 5 1/2"-6" tall figure produced by POPY Japan - from 1974 thru 1978 this set is fairly ungemon and includes Godzilla, Rodan, MechaGodzilla, Gigan and Mothra along with 18 different Ultraman Monsters , as well as Ultraman figures (will get into Ultraman towards the end) The Popy figures (all except Godzilla) were only available in Japan. In 1978 Mattel lisc'd thru Popy to release "Godzilla's Gang" in the US this set came in header carded Bags (one per figure) and Included a Godzilla manufactured in Taiwan along with7 Ultraman Monsters. These figures are also known as "Footprint" monsters - because they have footprint marks (each different) When the POPY Co. latermerged into BanDai some of the most prolific Monster production occurred starting in 1983 thru today - Bandai continues to produced every type of Godzilla/Gamera Monster created. Since I have limited shelf space I have left the collecting of these Kaiju figures to my 10 year old son.
JAPAN ONLY POPY ULTRAMAN FIGURES
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