{"id":3887,"date":"2012-09-15T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T05:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2012-10-09T13:02:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T20:02:52","slug":"skull-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/15\/skull-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Skull Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"skullstar\" href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/menkoTilt.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/menkoTilt.png\" alt=\"Skull Star\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"skullstar\" href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/stipple.jpg\"><\/a><a rel=\"skullstar\" href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/skullstar.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:-20px; font-size:80%;\">(click through for variations)<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s #1: Skull Star from the Tiger Mask series. He&#8217;s a wrassler, folks. Stand back.<\/p>\n<p>Nice to have something that adds to two collections at once: vintage Japanese vinyl and skulls.<\/p>\n<p>Do I need an intervention or what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(click through for variations) 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&#8217;s #1: Skull Star from the Tiger Mask series. He&#8217;s a wrassler, folks. Stand back. Nice to have something that adds to two collections at once: vintage Japanese vinyl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[155,222,429,426,5,427,430],"class_list":["post-3887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toys","tag-japanese","tag-kaiju","tag-nakajima","tag-skull-star","tag-sofubi","tag-tiger-mask","tag-wrestling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Skull Star<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/15\/skull-star\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Skull Star\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(click through for variations) 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. 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