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Cockroach Kaiju from 70's commercial.These came out around 2000.
It's pretty big.
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that looks pretty damn sweet
but for some reason, i think it would look better without those two extra arms or whatever they are.


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DeJesus wrote:
that looks pretty damn sweet
but for some reason, i think it would look better without those two extra arms or whatever they are.


Ummm, that's how it looked in the commercial...

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cool toy, love the expression on the face and the bright red mouth. any idea who made it?


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Cool.
Are the antennae poseable? They appear to be wire.

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PaulieVinyl wrote:
cool toy, love the expression on the face and the bright red mouth. any idea who made it?


His vicious 'smile' is priceless. Are there more cockroach toys out there ?


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I think I saw him in the basement of my old apartment building.


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Was the commercial animated or was it a suit? Thanks for sharing.

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It was a guy in a suit. Wish someone would dig up the commercial!

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was it this one

http://break.com/index/crazy-japanese-c ... rcial.html


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Thats funny as hell!
He's got tha pump going on!

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