Before I got into sofubi toys, it was my intention to make art fishing lures, resembling crazy and impossible creatures. After a quick search it seems I wasn't the first to think of this. I'm still going through with my plan and have begun customizing outlandish fishing lures. I might post some of my creations later, but for now let me share these ridiculous kaiju fishing lures I found online. I'd love to hook a bass on one of these!

If anyone knows where to purchase lures like these, or has any they would like to sell Pleeeease let me know!!!

many of the sofubi factories are set up to produce exactly these and have been for years. the garamon/pygmon ones used to be common on ebay, believe it or not.

great post . . . . those Baltan ones look amazing!

Does COOP know about this? I think he collects old fishing lures.

The fishing lure paint they sell at sporting goods stores- I always wanted to try that on vinyl toys.

I have inherited a collection of vintage fishing lures as well. Some of these are flat out bizarre looking. I'll post my strangest ones.

Yea the Baltan ones actually look usable since they look like crawfish...I must have all of these!!!

aghhh, I was hoping for some help on how to buy these, but seems like I only created more competition for acquiring them!

I hope when I do come across they are not too expensive, since my plan is to really go fishing with them. It's a bad feeling when you break off an expensive lure.

Haha if I find any I will definitely share with you! Unfortunately I only found one on ebay by typing in "ryobi lure" and it's at $20 with no hooks and who knows what condition
Not sure what these go for but I would definitely be looking for NIB for that price range

I am assuming that this article inspired you? Here are some search terms that I've been able to suss out, I hope that it helps:

Ryobi - リョービ
Fishing - フィッシング
Bait - ベイト
Plug - プラグ Apparently used as a common term to refer to a lure in a general, but also just like we use plug in English.
Lure - ルアー
and for reference; Ultraman - ウルトラマン

Both of the terms for 'plug' & 'lure' seem to be used as suffixes, in other words if you were looking for an Ultraman lure it would be written as ウルトラマンルアー . Again though, I got more hits on Yahoo! Japan using the characters for 'plug'.

Well, I am hooked.



(Thank you, thank you very much)

From the KaijuZoo, Gamera now "flying" to soon join the collection of Floating Head!

You learn quickly young Padewan!

Great pic kaijuzoo, that is a thing of beauty!

I'm really digging these fellas too!

these look like legit lures with the mazinger tribute paint



gotta catch 'em all

So I made my first monster fishing lure using an old finger puppet. I took it out fishing yesterday, but waited till the end of the day to test it out. No fish yet, but it swims surprisingly well in the water.