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life_slicer
Toy Prince
Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:10 pm Posts: 204
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 Do you know this website?
The name escapes me but its a website that sells mostly Kaiju figures, ultraman, godzilla, stuff like that and obscure off-brand japanese toys. The thing about this site is it has an all-japanese version of the site and an english version. thats kind of what sets it apart. Anyway, Im getting into YJA again and that site was really helpful because it had all the kanji for those figures and made them a lot easier to look up on YJA. If that site sounds familiar to anyone, lemme know. I remember it had a yellow background on the homepage with some monsters sitting around a table drinking, I believe.
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toybotstudios
Die-Cast
Joined: Sat Jul 01, 2006 11:40 pm Posts: 8096
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Kaiju Taro?
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Wed Aug 03, 2011 4:55 pm |
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jebcrow
Side Dealer
Joined: Wed May 24, 2006 4:11 pm Posts: 2253 Location: lahn-dahn
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 Re: Do you know this website?
you must mean kaiju-taro (ohhh the yellowness!!!) kaiju-taro R.I.P. 
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Wed Aug 03, 2011 5:00 pm |
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turtletooth
Post Pimp
Joined: Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:19 am Posts: 2683 Location: Dirty Jersey
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God, I miss KT. 
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Super Deformed
Joined: Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:51 pm Posts: 5615 Location: PDX
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KT was terrific! But Mandarake has an English option...
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Wed Aug 03, 2011 5:05 pm |
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Rich
Die-Cast
Joined: Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:46 pm Posts: 11806
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I loved KT, very missed 
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Wed Aug 03, 2011 5:06 pm |
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life_slicer
Toy Prince
Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:10 pm Posts: 204
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toybotstudios wrote: Kaiju Taro? Yeah, that sounds right. How long has it been offline?
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Wed Aug 03, 2011 5:25 pm |
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life_slicer
Toy Prince
Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:10 pm Posts: 204
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 Re: Do you know this website?
Any of you guys know a good resource to find the kanji equivalent of those toy lines. Collection DX had a couple but not a lot.
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Wed Aug 03, 2011 5:26 pm |
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jebcrow
Side Dealer
Joined: Wed May 24, 2006 4:11 pm Posts: 2253 Location: lahn-dahn
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i think it's been about a year and a half,,,maybe two years....
they closed down & had a final blow-out of all their stock for quite cheap...
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Wed Aug 03, 2011 5:27 pm |
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Onion
Toy Prince
Joined: Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:52 pm Posts: 275
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To be clear, I'm not trying to patronize but I went ahead and found the characters for what you mentioned in your OP.
Tokusatsu (特撮) Tokusatsu Toys (特撮トイ) Kaiju (怪獣) Ultraman (ウルトラマン) Godzilla (ゴジラ)
You can just use wiki for a lot of the big stuff. Please do not misunderstand - I am not a Japanese speaker but I will help if I can. There are a handful of Firefox extensions out there that allow for Google machine translation on the fly. I believe Chrome also supports a version of machine translation natively. I just open two tabs (one translated, one normal) and browse that way.
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Wed Aug 03, 2011 8:50 pm |
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ultrakaiju
Vintage
Joined: Fri Jan 14, 2011 1:51 pm Posts: 7316
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Yes, I would recommend the Rikaichan add-on (it's free). Google translate is also okay at times. Just be careful with using translated versions of pages, as it can sometimes mess up links.
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dedoperucelli
Addicted
Joined: Thu Feb 18, 2010 3:54 pm Posts: 901 Location: italy
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life_slicer wrote: Any of you guys know a good resource to find the kanji equivalent of those toy lines. Collection DX had a couple but not a lot. ... a couple of kanji ATELIER G-1: アトリエ G-1 Bearmodel: ベア モデル BUTANOHANA:ぶたのはな Dream Rocket ドリーム ロケット EMUPAIYA えむぱ屋 GIGABRAIN ギガブレイン Hukkokudo : 復刻堂 or 復刻 KAIJU KEN :怪獣 PILOT ACE パイロットエース POPSODA ポップソーダ Shikaruna koubo : シカルナ工房 SUNGUTS HONPOサンガッツ YAMANAYA :やまなや demboku デンボク target hearth ターゲットアース marmit マーミット rainbow レインボー ソフビ elegab エレガブ sofubi ソフビ
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akum6n
Prototype
Joined: Sat Nov 04, 2006 12:03 am Posts: 6162 Location: Shima
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Not to be that guy, but kanji refers specifically to the Chinese characters adopted in the Japanese writing system (e.g., Hukkokudo's name). I don't know how people started referring to all Japanese characters as kanji, but it's not correct.
You can just say- correctly- that these are the Japanese characters for each company's name.
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Fri Aug 05, 2011 3:22 pm |
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leadster
Addicted
Joined: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:08 pm Posts: 931 Location: Mass: Out West
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Not sure if this is maintained by a SB member but I often rely on this web page as a resource for YJA searches: http://www.coreyshead.com/yahoojp.html
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Fri Aug 05, 2011 7:21 pm |
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Lixx
Mr. Grumpy™
Joined: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:01 am Posts: 7380 Location: Deep in the Jungle
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Or you can take the easy way out and install google translate into your bookmarks bar like I do. I have it set where all I have to do is type in the english word and it gives me the japanese characters (or vice versa). Cut n paste in to YJA search and there you go. I save all my searches and give them their own folder in bookmarks. For years I kept thinking "Why doesn't the google translate page give me japanese characters to use?"...well apparently now they do! http://translate.google.com/translate_toolsscroll to the bottom about 5th down on left side, drag "english" to your bookmarks bar.
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Fri Aug 05, 2011 8:28 pm |
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life_slicer
Toy Prince
Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:10 pm Posts: 204
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thanks for all the info. i did end up finding the google translate and that combined with a babelfish add-on has been awesome. now i can double-click on the word and itll show the translation underneath. its been priceless. but yeah, i definitely appreciate the info and all the translations 
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Sat Aug 06, 2011 8:31 pm |
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life_slicer
Toy Prince
Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:10 pm Posts: 204
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I'd still like to track down one of the Canico cats: http://www.lulubelltoys.com/godzilla-ya ... erman.htmlnebody know a way to search them on YJA?
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JoeMan
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Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:29 am Posts: 3818 Location: NY
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