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robot loves monster skip to main skip to sidebar friday october 27 2017 toy shopping in seoul i recently had the opportunity to spend a few days in seoul south korea of course some exploratory toy shopping was mandatory the best spot for retail toy shopping seemed to be in a neighborhood called dongdaemun which has a stationery and toy district it s essentially a couple of cross streets that have a large number of toy and stationery wholesale shops and stalls it may look a bit seedy but the selection of korean domestic market toys is excellent unless you go to somewhere like a toys r us the toy shops around town simply do not seem to have the depth and breadth of stock that you can find in these small shops despite the small frontage several of the shops are quite deep and appear to have back stock from the past few years i m sure you could find some newer gems with a bit of digging and hand gestures broken english exchanges with the shopkeepers this shop with the yellow sign was one of the better stops open late clean well lit some of the smaller stalls seemed to have more back stock though the display outside said shop i think all of these are made by sonokong which you may be familiar with from their korean market distribution of transformers brave and microman figures in the late 90s early 2000s the two figures in the middle of the top row are from an ongoing series called hello carbot despite the fairly dippy name the quality is superb comparable to late g1 tfs and brave toys thick glossy plastic and clicky joints halloween is apparently a thing here too it hasn t quite reached the national fervor of japan halloween but it s fun to see the decorations out and a few seasonal items in stores this is the main toy shop in the district as you might imagine it s fairly easy to find also being located at the crossing of the main two streets at first glance i thought this store display outside the shop was from a japanese sentai series but it is actually the main combiner from a kids show in korea dino core the robot is ultimate d buster toy collectors focus so much on japanese market toys these days that it s interesting to see this reminder that there are entire toy lines and series that receive similar appreciation in their home countries but never really gain exposure abroad this is terrifying what kid would want a foot long remote controlled centipede building toys seem to be big in korea lego is popular of course but there are a number of local competitors shall we say i thought this was an interesting subject for a set lego ideas anyone an interesting find at a multi floor daiso location in myeongdong cheap transforming mini cars they looked pretty good with a combination of paint over translucent plastic but the quality wasn t as great i picked up a few of the police and rescue vehicles all in all not bad for about 3 a pop right now toys in korea are by and large for kids there is definitely a growing collector culture with a handful of toy museums and adult oriented toy shops such as gundam base but there doesn t seem to be anything comparable to say tokyo s nakano broadway or the series of reseller stores in akihabara one evidence of the growing toy collector culture in korea was this fascinating promotion running in the lotteria fast food chain i saw a sign advertising a taekwon v figure on the lotteria counter for 35 000 won about 35 more or less i couldn t tell whether it was a cash and carry deal or a preorder for a figure to be released at a later date and my non existent korean was of no assistance that night i did some quick googling and discovered that the figure had in fact been released to the public and by luck the next lotteria that i passed by also had the figure sitting on the counter i ran up to the cashier and gesticulated wildly at the figure and said the only words i knew takewon v the cashier rolled her eyes and yelled something at one of her co workers they brought out the boxed figure placed it in this snazzy bag and 35 000 won later i was on my way on closer inspection this toy is based on a super robot called master taekwon v some googling reveals that there was a lotteria exclusive toy of original flavor taekwon v which seems to have been sold earlier this year i don t know much about the franchise and there is little information out there in english so i can t tell you much about the difference between the two robots this toy appears to be a produced by a korean design studio but most likely manufactured in china it is maybe 8 tall or so and on a larger scale than comparable japanese robot toys e g soc robot damashii there is a decent heft to the figure and the joints feel pretty sturdy points against it are a lower degree of articulation than most japanese figures at similar price points and just ok paint quality overall it feels like the robot figures that were being sold in japan about 10 15 years ago e g the xebec stuff and early revoltech not bad for a fast food premium anyhow my take is that if you are looking for vintage toys or vinyl you probably won t have much luck in seoul i m sure somewhere there is someone collecting and selling old toys in korea but i wasn t able to find them if you are into transforming robots and sentai there are some fascinating toys to be had that you probably won t easily find outside of korea although you may need another suitcase to get anything home that said i suspect that in a few years we will probably see a more robust toy collector scene develop in korea although it is likely to differ from the one that has grown up in japan over the past couple of decades posted by robotxmonster at 8 40 am no comments saturday august 30 2014 shamrock arrow シャムロックアロー fang ファング after seeing a new version of shamrock arrow s distinctive toy fang revealed after nearly a year i thought it might be time to revisit some of its prior releases fang ファング is a finger puppet style soft vinyl toy sculpted and produced by shamrock arrow シャムロックアロー it is part of shamrock arrow s poseidon impact series and currently the sole figure in said line perhaps you recognize the 90s era action figures that undoubtedly inspired its design the first version of fang released used clear yellow vinyl with no paint it was sold at super festival 55 on january 9 2011 this and successive versions of fang were packaged in a simple fruit mesh bag with a poseidon impact sash style label click to read full article posted by robotxmonster at 12 04 am no comments saturday august 16 2014 super festival 62 glyos at super festival 62 which took place on april 29 2013 fig lab sold a number of one off custom mash up glyos figures from its booth these were most likely mash ups made from back stock similar to the crystal marauders sold at 2010 summer patchi summit and not special production or pre production items that said i can t figure out where the deep mauve head on the last pheyden comes from posted by robotxmonster at 12 30 am no comments labels glyos saturday august 9 2014 tomy beyrobo ベーロボ beyrobo ベーロボ is a robot toy produced by tomy in the 1980s probably as a way to follow the real robot cute robot and ripcord gyroscope toy trends of the time the little information out there on these toys suggests they were produced in 1983 although they strike me as being from later in the 80s can t say why click to read full article posted by robotxmonster at 1 16 am no comments tuesday august 5 2014 ichibanboshi oddities there are a handful of undocumented oddities that i have encountered among the collaborative figures produced by realxhead リアルヘッド and ichibanboshi 一番星 the above two are examples that i have been lucky enough to add to my collection the first figure appears to be the head of the first release kabuki paint ryuusei ninja ichibanboshi 流星忍者 一番星 placed on an unpainted black vinyl body and given a black scarf the first kabuki ninja was sold at the shinto gangu after school club event on june 20 2009 so i would imagine this figure was distributed around that time many ninjas use black vinyl so that portion of the figure does not provide any particular insight the second figure is the ryuusei ninja in unpainted black vinyl with a yellow orange cat eye no scarf or eye patch is included this one could have been an unpainted test shot for one of the earlier releases of the ninja as a couple of them used a black vinyl base and a yellow orange cat eye other ichibanboshi oddities that i have seen include ryuusei ninja in unpainted milky white vinyl with a yellow green cat eye no eye patch or scarf ryuusei ninja completely painted metallic red with a yellow orange cat eye and black scarf ryuusei ninja in unpainted black vinyl with a grey cat eye a fairly unusual eye color and red scarf mikazuki joe in unpainted black vinyl probably more of a test shot than a mystery version mikazuki joe in unpainted clear smoke vinyl with gold tinsel inside mikazuki joe completely painted metallic red with a black scarf and mikazuki joe in unpainted milky white vinyl stranger yet most of these were still in their original packaging they were also sold at around the same time and alongside a large amount of more common ichibanboshi figures leading me to believe that someone was cleaning house it is still a mystery to me as to why these figures were produced and how they were originally distributed posted by robotxmonster at 11 06 pm no comments labels ichibanboshi realxhead older posts home subscribe to posts atom robotxmonster dedicated to the historical preservation and study of robots and monsters of the plastic die cast and vinyl varieties i don t collect i curate view my complete profile archive 2017 1 october 1 toy shopping in seoul 2014 6 august 5 january 1 2013 2 february 2 2012 10 march 4 february 2 january 4 2011 13 october 4 september 4 august 1 june 1 april 1 march 2 2010 39 november 6 october 2 september 3 august 3 july 3 june 5 may 3 april 1 march 4 february 6 january 3 2009 47 december 8 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