Re: Burning vintage questions
clubtokyo wrote:
akum6n wrote:
Around when were those companies active? Club Tokyo has 1982 as the production year for Ark's Garuban, but I've seen a magazine ad from 1978 with the Ark/Orange (no EP) lineup. Just curious.
Never was exactly sure about the date. it comes from a translation of a japanese toy website. probably the best all around vintage toy website out there.
Thanks. I searched around the Mononofu website (same one?) and couldn't find date info. That was where the magazine ad was posted as well. I'll just post the link for convenience:
http://mononofu.hp.infoseek.co.jp/laboratory/ark/tv_kaiju.htmlThis old post has more discussion on our end:
http://www.skullbrain.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=15375.
Ark was founded in 1978, and said magazine ad was run at the end of the year. Kind of funny because the ad shows Ark and Orange's entire lineup of toys- including the new molds that were not Bullmark repaints, and including the new dinosaur vinyls- meaning that they all 'existed' in 1978.
However, all articles linked in the above thread (and anecdoctal evidence) suggest that the toys were produced and sold closer to the 1980s, and possibly at staggered times. So the only thing that does not fit is the magazine article- and I say that is funny, because it is the only historical documentation in this whole mystery. Maybe the author of that website got his dates wrong? That seems unlikely. If anyone can weigh in, I'd love to hear more thoughts.
