Revenge of the Retro Japanese Toy Adverts

Those inflatable ride on toys- with the seats, unbearably cool!!!!!!!!!!!1

Those inflatable ride on toys- with the seats, unbearably cool!!!!!!!!!!!1

Yeah, they are the most fun adverts i've found in a while. I wonder how many of those inflatables survive today.

Summer 1973 . . . the coolest kids on the block were having fun with these inflatables.

1989

Oh man, I LOVE those inflatables! I wish I could still get my hands on some new versions of these. I would love to stick 'em around and bob 'em everywhere. And those pools are equally killer. I could certainly use an Ultraman wader to cool off in in this heat. In fact, if I had that Ace pool, people would have a hard time pulling me out of it.

Some nice scans of an old Volks resin kit catalogue. My guess would be mid-80's?

Those are really nice, and it is great to see lots of Ultra coverage. I would really love to see (or own) some nicely done up kits from those. Sadly I don't have the model/paint talents myself. Really nice find you dug up there Moog!

^^ Yeah, there's a massive difference between having a bash at painting a kit and actually doing a semi-professional job.
I learned that when i painted my Revell Rat Fink . . . .

More VOLKS, folks . . . .

Another nice one.
Popy 1975.

Wow I need those Gachapin & Mukku, and Girl on swing with Bird pendants... So cool!

Latest promo showcase from sofvi.tokyo

Bullmark Mechander Robot etc

Just found this on my hard drive, I'm pretty sure i haven't posted it here before . . .
If i have, who cares - its worth posting twice!

^ So great ! Would love to have a Gamera & one of those King Gidorah/Mothra sets. Sunguts has great toys, and this doesn't scratch the surface considering all the Kitaro not pictured.

^^ Yeah, the Akuma-kun and GeGeGe no Kitaro stuff would take up a couple of pages on their own.

Sanuki Folk Crafts Museum 'To see the toys'.

I just picked this up recently and think pretty much anyone following this thread is going to find some stuff they like in there. Mostly geared toward robot stuff it's pretty jam packed:

http://www.blurb.com/b/6401817-art-of-advertising-vol-1

^^ Looks really cool . . .

How is the scan / print quality? 8x10 is a pretty good size.