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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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| Tue Jan 12, 2010 2:21 pm |
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plastichunter
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Joined: Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:40 pm Posts: 4237 Location: Los Angeles
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KaosHead wrote: 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. Brians house, Carls house, Kirklands house, ect. 
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Lixx
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Yuji Nishimura the founder of M1 has a kaiju museum in Japan.
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KaijuHoarder
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Lixx wrote: Yuji Nishimura the founder of M1 has a kaiju museum in Japan. i thought the one in niigata was closed. did he open another one?
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datadub
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Joined: Sun Dec 04, 2005 7:23 am Posts: 3599 Location: Tokyo!!!
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Mutonismyfriend
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Joined: Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:21 pm Posts: 8387 Location: At home
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Roger
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Joined: Fri Nov 25, 2005 10:41 pm Posts: 4909
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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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datadub
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Joined: Sun Dec 04, 2005 7:23 am Posts: 3599 Location: Tokyo!!!
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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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meanmistert
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Joined: Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:26 am Posts: 1911 Location: Orlando
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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 Dumb Dumb
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| Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:13 pm |
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logang1
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Joined: Sun Jul 29, 2007 2:58 am Posts: 3992
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Roger
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No, Niigata. Nothing to do there but ski and get kidnapped by the North Koreans.
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logang1
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Roger wrote: ........and get kidnapped by the North Koreans. Hmmmm....I could stand to lose a few pounds.....tempting...
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atease
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Joined: Mon Jun 26, 2006 6:23 pm Posts: 5382 Location: Boston, MA
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meanmistert wrote: 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 Dumb Dumb 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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dokuroking
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Joined: Fri Sep 15, 2006 11:26 pm Posts: 1256 Location: Los Angeles
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meanmistert wrote: 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 Dumb Dumb 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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