Toy Japan
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1950s TOY Battery Operated BEAR DRINKING a COKE Made in JAPAN Works $30.00 |
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Japanese Tin Toy Battery “VIDEO” ROBOT COLLECTIBLE MADE IN JAPAN $163.28 |
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Vintage Japan WIND-UP PINOCCHIO CYMBAL Toy Doll PART $90.00 |
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ST Japan HANOMAG CAR TRANSPORTER TRUCK + 4 Emergency Cars Tin Friction Toy MB`80 $79.99 |
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Vintage 1950′s ~ 60′s JAPAN (K) Tin Toy Friction Car POLICE CRUISER MiP $39.95 |
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Vintage 1950′s ~ 60′s JAPAN (K) Tin Toy Friction Car FIRE Dept CHIEF MiP $39.95 |
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1960′s Vintage Friction Toy Motorcycle 4″ Made in Japan $14.99 |
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Vintage Tin toy japan Highway Patrol Remote Controlled Works Great $99.99 |
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Rare Tin Rosko Japan Grand-Pa Battery Operated Toy Car w/original box $20.00 |
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B5 Vintage Exelo Japan Tin Mixit Mix It Master Jr Battery Operated Toy $0.99 |
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VINTAGE REMOTE CONTROLL JOLLY SANTA BATTERY TIN Alps Japan TOY SKING & SKATING $299.99 |
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Vintage Hungry Baby Bear B/O Tin Toy Japan Yonezowa $159.95 |
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Vintage MM Japan Toy TIME HTC Wooden Model Boat B/O #81 $149.95 |
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Vintage Nomura Tin Toy Wind-Up Bartender Japan Works! $99.95 |
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1950′s Modern Toys, Japan, Radar Scope toy $11.49 |
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1960′s CONTINENTAL FLYER Train Set MADE IN JAPAN TIN TOY ORIGINAL $29.99 |
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Rare Vintage 1950s RAILROAD Stop/Go BATTERY OPERATED TOY LAMP LANTERN JAPAN $50.00 |
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Vintage Mr. Fox the Magician Japan Battery toy complete! ORIGINAL RABBIT, WORKS! $438.88 |
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Vintage ROCK ‘n ROLL MONKEY Japan guitar playing Battery Toy complete & original $438.88 |
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Doreamaon Wind Up Toy White Knob Epoch made in Japan $7.00 |
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VINTAGE Charlie Weaver BARTENDER TOY PRESSED METAL JAPAN NO RESERVE $4.99 |
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Wind-up doll “Funny Honey” Toy Made by Frankonia, Japan with the box $29.99 |
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Frankenstein Monster Rear Car Window Red Light Electrical Op Toy – Japan 1960′s $89.00 |
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1960s CHARLEY WEAVER BARTENTER TOY ( BATTERY OPERATED )( JAPAN ) $49.99 |
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VINTAGE MARUSAN TOYS SAN No 3668 JAPAN BATTERY OPERATED FIRE BOAT MINT IN BOX $941.00 |
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Fantastic Billiken Shokai #8 Wind Up Toy Mib Japan $99.99 |
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2-2-0 Japan Modern Toys TM Tin Plate steam locomotive battery operated $90.00 |
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VINTAGE JAPAN 1950′s ITO 18″ Battery Operated Wooden Toy Boat $113.62 |
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1950s ANTIQUE CHILD BATTERY Robot Toy DONKEY JAPAN $1,400.00 |
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Cragstan Battery 1950′s Japan Radar Jeep Old Toy Army Vintage Tin Truck 11 Inche $9.99 |
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Vintage scarce Made in Japan Large Battery operated toy Pirate’s Ship! $199.99 |
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Vintage Marshal Wild Bill Two Gun Man Battery Operated Tin Cowboy Toy Japan Y co $149.99 |
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Very Rare OLD ANTIQUE CHARACTER Vintage Red Indian Tin Toy/Plastic Bandai Japan $87.77 |
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VERY RARE VINTAGE ANTIQUE Old Tin TOY BATTERY OPERATED Fire Engine YANOMAN JAPAN $116.11 |
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VERY RARE VINTAGE ANTIQUE BATTERY OPERATED TIN TOY SHIP WITH SIREN MADE IN JAPAN $304.99 |
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M.P.JEEP FRICTION TOY U.S.A.F. AF.170221 MADE IN JAPAN BEEN IN BAD WRECK NEEDS W $9.99 |
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Sakadachi Lucky can handstand who Got interesting toys award 2011 in Japan! $156.00 |
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Trade Mark Modern Toys MT Japan Snoopy TV Space Patrol Space Ship $68.65 |
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1950′S BATTERY OPERATED OL’ SLEEPY HEAD RIP Tin Litho TOY YONEWAZA Y Co. JAPAN $35.99 |
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Very Rare Htf 50′s Japan Nomura Sheriff Car B/O not wind up Tin Toy, XLNT NMC $1,000.00 |
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VINTAGE “PLAYFUL CAT” WIND UP TOY BOXED JAPAN 1960′s $49.99 |
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Classic Japan Battery Op Toys unique NOTE CARDS! greeting cards invitations FUN! $27.50 |
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FUJI PRESS KOGYOSHO JAPAN FUR TIN HOPPING WIND UP MASCOT Bunny Rabbit TOY BOXED $45.00 |
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JAPAN Marx Toys TWO IN ONE WAGON CABOOSE STEAM TRAIN RAILROAD RAILWAY SET BOP $115.00 |
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JAPAN MODERN TOYS MT R-200 SMOKING TRAIN RAILROAD RAILWAY SET BOP SIGNAL SWITCH $125.00 |
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JAPAN TIN RUBBER WIND UP AGO AGO CARICATURE DINOSAUR HAT TOY BOXED WALKS SHAKES $45.00 |
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TPS TOY WIND UP MECHANICAL WALKING Japan Baby TOASTER KITCHEN APPLIANCE $35.00 |
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JAPAN MODERN TOYS MT R-720 SMOKY TRAIN RAILROAD RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE BOP $95.00 |
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Very Cool PUFFING BILLY Friction Toy Train Locomotive DAIYA JAPAN PAT. 40-30940 $9.99 |
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Vintage LINE MAR LineMar TOYS Made in Japan Yellow Cab Friction Tin Toy Car $9.99 |
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SMOKING BARTENDER Tin Battery TOY BY ROSKO OF JAPAN BOXED UNUSED SHARP $61.00 |
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Old Vintage Friction Powered Train Toy from Japan 1950 Very rare $110.00 |
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NORTH AMERICAN VAN LINES TIN FRICTION Tractor Trailer TRUCK TOY 5741B – JAPAN $19.99 |
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1960s BANDAI Japan TIN Battery Op ROLLS ROYCE SILVER CLOUD Toy CAR $61.99 |
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MIB 1960s ALPS Japan LITTLE DOG in BASKET WIND UP TOY-Pops up + BARKS $11.50 |
Why Are There So Many Different Japanese Bandai Godzilla 2000 Toys?
So what is Godzilla you ask? To find the answer to this question you must go back to the beginning…
One dark night in 1954, Toho producer Tomoyuki Tanaka was on a plane thousands of feet above the waves of the Pacific Ocean. Toho’s most recent idea for a movie had been shelved and he needed to come up with a new idea quickly. As he stared down at the sea below him, an idea struck him: what if a giant monster rose from the depths to attack Tokyo!? With the great success of giant monster movies such as King Kong and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, such a movie was a stroke of genius. Soon, with the assistance of a team of now legendary men, including director Ishiro Honda, score master Akira Ifukube, and special effects man Eiji Tsuburaya, they began to make their movie. But the creature needed a name. Though it will forever be unknown exactly how the name came about and myths will circle it eternally, the Japanese words gorira (gorilla) and kujira (whale) were combined and the beast became known as Gojira, which in turn became, in the west, Godzilla.
The original Gojira was a radioactive lizard trying to destroy humanity. He was then dissolved in weird foam in his first movie by humanity, destroyed like all the other monsters we’ve come to know from that time period of cinema. Yet, he came back for more movies. Movie after movie, the huge demon’s size and manner seemed to change. His strengths, intelligence, weaknesses, and some of his abilities were subject to change as well. Sometimes being as smart as a human, communicating with other monsters, other times being animalistically smart. From hero to villain to hero in movies that seemed to barely keep anything straight. In one movie he breathed his signature bad breath to destroy what remained of Tokyo after appearing to fight a monster even more bent in tearing the city apart as a joke to consistent fans about his inconsistencies. Sometimes the reason he can fight armies is because of a hard carpace, other times because of some hyper-healing ability. Not even his blood can stay the same, sometimes green when he bleeds. Other times, red like everything else.
Because the first two films were in black and white, American poster makers went with their own instincts and painted the Big G a deep forest green. Enter King Kong Vs. Godzilla, his first colour feature, and lo and behold, the radiation spawn is charcoal gray. Too late to stop the merchandising mishaps: to this day almost every model, toy and comic book still paints him the colour of money.
Godzilla (or Gojira, ???) refers to a series of kaiju (strange beast or monster), or more specifically Daikaiju (giant monster), films made in Japan. Godzilla is believed to have originally been intended by Toho to represent the United States of America (being superior in its destructive capability) and took the form of a radioactive prehistoric reptile. Given that his origin (in the 1954 film) was the ocean, Godzilla can be considered not just a monster, but a sea monster. Godzilla died at the end of the original 1954 film. Subsequent films in the series ret conned the first movie by assuming that Godzilla wasn’t killed, and that the body of the monster was never found.
The series was revamped in 1985 with “Godzilla 1985″; this movie was created as a direct sequel to the 1954 film, and ignores the continuity of the previous sequels. Known as the Heisei series (for the ruling emperor of the time), the continuity ended in 1995′s Godzilla vs. Destroyah after a run of seven films. The reason for the continuity shift was based on a realization that the marketing of the movies had removed the reason it was so loved. When it was discovered that Godzilla was popular with children, sequels were toned down in obvious screen violence, and Godzilla was made out to be a good guy instead of an indestructible abomination of the mistakes of Man. Characters such as “son of Godzilla” (a diminutive chubby replica who blew smoke rings) were introduced. However, the further Godzilla was taken away from his roots, the less popular he became. Hence, Godzilla 1985 brought the series back to form.
Depending on your opinion, either the 1970s were not kind to Godzilla, or fans are not kind to the Godzilla of the 1970s. The films of that era are often dismissed as cheap, poorly made, and generally pathetic or childish. Godzilla was in full “super-hero” mode. Little kids in micro-shorts were running wild, but not nearly so in control as they were in the old Gamera films. A lot of serious Godzilla fans hang their heads in shame at the mere mention of some of these titles.
Contrary to what the English dub of the original Godzilla, King of the Monsters would have us believe, Godzilla was never “over 400 feet tall”. What follows is a history of Godzilla’s height, or correctly, increase in height. In the 1954 Japanese original, Dr. Yamane estimates that Godzilla is 50 meters tall (167 feet). Godzilla destroys Tokyo, but is later killed by the Oxygen Destroyer. A second Godzilla appears in the next movie: Godzilla Raids Again (1955). This creature is also 50 meters tall and would remain this size for the following Godzilla movies through to Terror or Mecha Godzilla (1975).
In 1984, Toho presented Godzilla (Godzilla 1985 in the U.S.) as a direct sequel to the 1954 original, thus ignoring the existence of the 14 other films in the series. At the same time, the height of the new Godzilla was increased to 80 meters (267 feet). Toho probably did this to make Godzilla appears more imposing alongside Tokyo’s modem skyscrapers. Godzilla is also 80 meters tall in Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989). In Godzilla vs. King Ghidora (1991), futurians attempt to prevent Godzilla’s creation. However, their complicated time-travel plan backfires, and Godzilla is reborn in 1992, now towering at 100 meters (334 feet). Godzilla is this size in Godzilla vs. Mothra, released in the U.S. as Godzilla and Mothra: Battle for Earth (1992) and the following sequels; Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla (1993), Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994) and Godzilla vs. Destroyah (1995). When the series returned after the TriStar fiasco with Godzilla 2000, the King of the Monsters returned to the 80 meters (267 feet) version, and has stayed at that height ever since. These changes in Godzilla’s height has meant a little confusion for collectors, especially when trying to estimate Godzilla’s scale in relation to his height.
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Can anyone help me identify these antique toys from Japan? Also tell me what they are worth?
THEY ARE ABOUT 3 TO 4 INCHES TALL, I THINK THEY ARE CERAMIC, AND THE ARMS MOVE, YOU CAN SEE STRINGS INSIDE HOLDING THE ARMS THAT ALLOW THEM TO MOVE. ONE IS A COWBOY, ONE AN INDIAN. THAY SAY JAPAN ON THEM,
If we had picture we might could tell you, Sorry
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