Dedicated Kaiju Museum?

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  1. KaosHead

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    Dedicated Kaiju Museum?
    Is there such a thing anywhere? Search turned up nothing. I'm assuming kaiju is represented in some larger scope toy museum, somewhere. Most likely in Japan.
     
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    Dedicated Kaiju Museum?
    Brians house, Carls house, Kirklands house, ect. :)
     
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    Dedicated Kaiju Museum?
    Yuji Nishimura the founder of M1 has a kaiju museum in Japan.
     
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    Dedicated Kaiju Museum?
    i thought the one in niigata was closed. did he open another one?
     
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    Connell's House
     
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    Dedicated Kaiju Museum?
    The Kodomo no Jidaikan museum in Niigata (Yuji Nishimura's place) is open occasionally, mostly holidays.

    During my first trip to Japan there was a Godzilla exhibit in Odaiba. They had costumes from the 2002 movie on display, pretty beat.
     
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    Dedicated Kaiju Museum?
    There is also the Ultraman Festival every August in Ikebukuro. Usually they have some mixture of toys, props and costumes. Some years are better than others. There is always a theme:
    2006 - 40th anniversary of Ultraman
    2007 - 40th anniversary of Seven
    2008 - Spaceships of the ultra series
    2009 - Robots.
    Not sure whats the theme for this year. Its the 30th anniversary of Ultraman 80. Starting from next year the 40th anniversaries of the Silver Age Ultramen kick off (71 - returns, 72 - ace, 73 -taro, 74- leo)
     
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    Dedicated Kaiju Museum?
    Not dedicated, but somewhat related...

    Over the summer at Epcot, the Japan Pavilion was hosting part of the collection from "the" Japanese tin toy king. Unfortunately, I had left my camera in the car.
    Dumb
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    No, Niigata. Nothing to do there but ski
    and get kidnapped by the North
    Koreans.
     
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    Hmmmm....I could stand to lose a few pounds.....tempting...
     
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    Dedicated Kaiju Museum?
    that exhibit had been on display for a very long time. There were more toys when it opened a few years ago and the show dwindled down until it finally closed.
     
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    Dedicated Kaiju Museum?
    If you mean Kitahara you can see a small percentage of his collection (still a ton) at his Yokohama Tin Toy Museum. From my understanding he also has several warehouses housing his full collection which are not open to the general public. Madness!
     

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