Yamanaya Yamaton vinyl kaiju figure, based on a battleship monster from the manga adaptation of Ultraman.
Basking in the bay at Ocho Rios, Jamaica – 2019.
Posts Tagged ‘Ultraman’
Yamaton
January 19th, 2024 by Corey A. Edwards
Starbem Guiro
January 12th, 2024 by Corey A. Edwards
B-Club Bullmark reissue Starbem Guiro vinyl kaiju figure from Ultraman Leo.
Attending to the brewery in Alamosa, CO – spring 2016.
Zetton Seijin
January 8th, 2024 by Corey A. Edwards
B-Club Bullmark reissue Zetton Seijin (Z-Ton) vinyl kaiju figure from Ultraman fame.
Spotted sidling up to the historic grain elevator in downtown Sequim, WA – late 2023.
Attend the Olympic Peninsula Toy and Collectibles Show 2023!
July 17th, 2023 by Corey A. Edwards
Come on out to the first annual Olympic Peninsula Toy and Collectibles Show, scheduled for September 9th, 2023, 10am to 3pm, at the Guy Cole Event Center in Sequim, WA. If you like vintage toys and collectibles, you’re gonna love the Olympic Peninsula Toy Show. This inaugural event promises 20 or more vendors selling a wide variety of vintage toys and collectibles.
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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
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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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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Garamon Green
June 28th, 2011 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.
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.
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 …
Bleach
November 29th, 2009 by Corey A. Edwards
End of the Tunnel
November 29th, 2009 by Corey A. Edwards
