Posts Tagged ‘Kaiju’
Guiro Seijin
January 30th, 2015 by Corey A. Edwards
B-Club Bullmark reissue Guiro Seijin vinyl kaiju figure.
Up to something unsavory down in the low places.
Strange Toys I Have Known:
Sole of Godzilla’s Gang
March 4th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
A while back I brought Nokogirin and Godzilla’s Gang to your collective attention. What I didn’t mention is that Nokogirin was not the only of the series I’d managed to round up. Minus the eponymous member, I have managed to “collect them all!”™
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My Gif To You
February 11th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
Strange Toys I Have Known:
Yes, we have Nokogirin – we have Nokogirin today!
February 1st, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
Redking (giant size)
September 20th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
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Ah, Redking, foe of Ultraman and your brother and sister monsters alike. Oh, Redking: you of the wobbly head and snarky disposition. Yes, Redking – so called because of your utter lack of red coloring (at least in all the initial incarnations). Hey Redking, where you goin’ with that tower in your hand?
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Strange Toys I Have Known – No Means Mr. No
September 17th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
Bat Otoko
September 16th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
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A recent, birthday-related-cum-ill-advised shopping trip on YahooJapan provided me with four new additions to my Japanese toy collection and an exchange-rate hangover.
Here’s #2: Bat Otoko from the Kamen Rider series. This is the reissue, not the original – hey, what am I? Made of money?
Bat man. In Kamen Rider he’s a bad guy, in case you couldn’t tell. I like this toy because it is so incredibly ugly.
Skull Star
September 15th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
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A recent, birthday-related-cum-ill-advised shopping trip on YahooJapan provided me with four new additions to my Japanese toy collection and an exchange-rate hangover.
Here’s #1: Skull Star from the Tiger Mask series. He’s a wrassler, folks. Stand back.
Nice to have something that adds to two collections at once: vintage Japanese vinyl and skulls.
Do I need an intervention or what?
It Takes Guts
August 9th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
A while back I purchased a great little book of Japanese monsters, shown in cross-section, in an attempt to shed a little light upon just what it is that makes them tick.
Great concept. Hours of fun.
The only problem is, the darned thing is all in Japanese! The nerve of these people! (they also made a mistake and printed the whole thing backwards – someone lost his job at the printing house that day, I can tell you)
Anyway, I took it upon myself to decipher those inscrutable little squigglies that littered the page and present to you here the few I manged to get through before passing out with exertion. Phew. My brain. (be sure to click on them for a closer view)
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Oh! Sorry …
October 15th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
Medicom RAH220 Kamen Rider villain Yamogerasu doll
The Corey’s Head 2012 Calendar of Robots & Monsters
October 8th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
That’s right, get your shoes and socks on, people: it’s time once again for me to approach on bended knee (you try that – it’ll ruin your pants, I tell you … ) and beg, with great, big, brown puppy-dog eyes, for you to consider, with an appreciation approaching worshipfulness, my 6th and final, kinda-sorta annual, calendar offering.
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Garamon Green
June 28th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
The Case(s) of Renewed Interest
September 21st, 2010 by Corey A. Edwards
Kanegon
March 13th, 2010 by Corey A. Edwards
So it turned out that the neighbor severed my cable while planting a tree.
He was nice enough to leave the cable ends protruding from the earth like giant, errant whiskers but otherwise said nothing.
He’s in construction, natch.
Namegon
March 1st, 2010 by Corey A. Edwards
Namegon
A giant snail. What’s cooler than that?
My picture of it, that’s what.
Aboras
February 28th, 2010 by Corey A. Edwards
Aboras
One of the last toys I ever bought, the Bandai, B-Club reissue of the Bullmark Aboras was long sought.
Something about this toy’s whimsical grin (at least on one side, the other side of his face is rather unfriendly, as if the sculptor was of two moods during the process … or just inept) has always pleased me to no end.
The toy has spent the last few months perched on a living room stereo speaker (the only figure toy in evidence in my home proper) in the hope that it would inspire me.
It has. I hope you like the results as much as I do – more of the same is on the way.
Hidden Valet
December 2nd, 2009 by Corey A. Edwards
Nostalgic Heroes “Tetsujin 26”
I wonder – was he riding that bike or does he just maintain it?
If the former, then how does he get around the deck support? Was he assembled down there?
Mebbe there’s another egress …
Peek-A-Boo
November 30th, 2009 by Corey A. Edwards
Bandai “Hanejiro”
This was a very simple set-up, as I’m sure you can imagine: A basic head-on with lots off diffuse light on my subject, then a simple two-part layer of the wall and a slight mask of the window to insert the toy.
So simple I almost felt like I was cheating.
For a final effect, I cut out a large section of the top window, which I applied to Hanejiro via a clipping mask, then brought said layer’s opacity down until the toy looked like it was behind the window.
A little bit of stenciling to include my sig and: voila.
I may like this shot best of the three I did this weekend even thought it was so danged easy: the unexpected, goofy charm of Hanejiro’s face up in the window … it perfectly embodies my attitude and aim when making these ridiculous pics …
End of the Tunnel
November 29th, 2009 by Corey A. Edwards
Somehow … back at it.
November 24th, 2009 by Corey A. Edwards
B-Club “Daigoro”
The next thing you know I’m paging through old backgrounds and snapping pictures of a toy, my mind awhirl with projects, themes, and other forms of sheer pointlessness.
It’s this kind of stuff that “holds me back” and ensures that I’ll never “make it.”
But you know what? I don’t really care anymore. They’re just too fun to make.
(my daughter says he needs a package)
Chiburu Chiburu Chiburu (no pepsi: coke)
October 25th, 2009 by Corey A. Edwards
X-ray
September 30th, 2009 by Corey A. Edwards
Here’s a neat little chunk of javascript (click the pic!) I discovered recently (and by that I mean on the net, not by writing it).
This is an admittedly lame use of it, given all the ideas learning of it has generated in me. My daughter and I are in the middle of a project together using said script in a far more creative way that I will reveal here as soon as it is complete.
The script is marketed as a magnifier, not as an x-ray. I like it better as an x-ray. Or whatever it is I have it doing here.
Stay tuned!
The Necessary Year – Day 1: Butterflies and Vcolor
June 1st, 2008 by Corey A. Edwards
(this post is part of an aborted 1 year experiment in material abstinence I called The Necessary Year)
I’m feeling optimistic but also a bit nervous. Thinking about doing something is one thing, committing to it publicly is another. This reminds me of when I told my daughter I would quit smoking, right then: well, you’re committed now! Here’s to hoping this goes off as smoothly as that did.
As a kind of “last supper” I walked down the hill last night and picked up a bottle of Sheaf stout and some Toll House ice cream sandwiches. I drank the beer with supper (so good and creamy!) but became so embroiled in getting this blog up that I forgot about dessert! I guess I can save them for later – unless my daughter beats me to them.
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