B-Club Bullmark Gabara vinyl kaiju, from the Godzilla universe.
Seen here boarding a gondola at Glenwood Caverns, Glenwood Springs, CO in 2016.
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April 18th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
Goofing around with the detail collage for my post on the “Instrucciones” poster inspired me to create a few fun (and totally stupid) products utilizing an iconic graphic from one of the instruction sheets: a spring-loaded, Japanese robot fist flying through the air!
I dunno about you but I’m definitely getting one of the shirts …
http://www.cafepress.com/coreyshead – Enjoy!
March 28th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
My interest in Japanese toys has very little to do with actually playing with them.
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August 8th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
They said he was from Japan and that accounted for his funny accent but it was clear to me he weren’t no Japaner. They said his metal body was the result of wounds he’d received in a war or some such but I never believed that, not for one minute. Who ever heard of such a thing; a metal body?
He wasn’t a this earth, I tell you, not even this time, maybe. Sell my mother if it aint true.
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July 21st, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
I thought he was just a kid goofing around. Just another bozo-button at large and awash in adolescence. You’ve seen ’em; teens, sans supervision in the supermarket, making public fresh for their friends.
But this was different.
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September 21st, 2010 by Corey A. Edwards
6 years ago, when I was in the thick of toy collecting, I ran across a couple of very surprising deals: two glass display cases, to be exact. Low, old-school, wood and glass display cases. And at the right price: free.
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March 13th, 2010 by Corey A. Edwards
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February 28th, 2010 by Corey A. Edwards
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.
November 29th, 2009 by Corey A. Edwards
I’m not quite sure how this happened. Something about a request for me to come up with another calendar of toy pics and then my realizing, for the first time since I put one together, that I didn’t have 12 new pictures.
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November 24th, 2009 by Corey A. Edwards
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)