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...got my 1st Marusan toy, and it came bagged, with mint header + inside was a single page, 2 sided insert, dated 1997:





....sorry bout crappy phone photos, it's the best i can do ATM.

Hope you guys like it!

This showed up on Facebook today:

Takara inflatables

^^^ nice one . . . 3 great posts all in a row

Especially love the Takara inflatables - i've never seen anything like those before!

That Marusan insert is one hot tamale!!

Kid thinking to himself: "Why can't I have missile fingers???"

This ad is amazing.^^^

Booska Bling-bling? . . . basically prizes for Pachinko parlors.


怪獣ブースカ　ジュエリーストラップ by The Moog Image Dump, on Flickr

As if the Kamen Rider jumbo wasn't awesome (and rare) enough, I have not seen him with the rocket-firing fists. The thought of having those two to battle it out is melting my heart.

The actual V3 Jumbo is fairly common, however, the Jumbos the child is playing with are none I've ever seen before. I can only assume these are very early prototype variations as they look nothing like their actual production counterparts.

I love the way that V3 looks. I see a cross between the stature of the jumbos we know and early Tokusatsu sofubi heroes. It almost looks vinyl. Perhaps the material was considered for production before they went with polyethylene?

Regardless, it all seems strange as the actual Mazinger Z that went into production can be seen in the ad to the right.

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That is a fantastic ad for those henshin suits. There are quite a few I have never even seen before. If these are all production ones then I am seriously missing out - not that I need another area to collect. I like that you can see multiple variants for versions of the same character (even if I can't spot the differences in them).

Yeah, this is a LOT more common than you think with Popy. There are tons of instances where early prototypes will be shown on ads and even packaging for the later production toys. Hell, the Jumbo Grendizer is featured on the chogokin's box! Great Mazinger, too, I think...and probably plenty of others!

Best of luck finding one these days... but if you can you'll be rewarded with probably the best reference book covering this kind of stuff around. It's stuffed with toy ads and inserts from TV Magazine and covers tons of it! A lot of these images are Microman/Henshin Cyborg heavy but it covers basically everything robot anime wise from the 70's plus live action like Kamen Rider etc. as well as toys:











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^^ looks like an amazing book . . . . thanks for sharing!

Holy fuck. I'm gonna be spending the next hour or so ogling those pictures. Thanks for ruining my morning, Adam; I had plans.

That book looks phenomenal. I can only imagine all the afternoons I could waste just pouring over the contents. Thanks for adding all the extra pics. Someone has to get working on translations of all these great Japanese tomes.

I'll take some more pics of it later. Glad you're enjoying! Sorry about your morning Sanjeev haha

amazing book .. I keep coming back to gawk .. and yeah its amazing how different those Jumbos look to the released versions.i

Here are a few more peeks of some action packed pages inside:

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Nice Gundam cut-away artwork. Also, I think I need me an Inazuman bike!

Bullmark by The Moog Image Dump, on Flickr


Saint Seiya by The Moog Image Dump, on Flickr

Holy crap, that Ace base is killer. I would have loved to have that as a kid (still would), I am a huge sucker for playsets of all kinds.

Another amazing treasure trove of ads Moog. I would also be interested to know if anyone has info on these guys, or even has one: