BOOTLEG GODZILLAS
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Two notes before we deep dive into the nerdy details here (I can tell you already as excited as me) – the first is the quote in the title here is obvs. from Shakespeare’s Othello, act 3, scene 2. The second is that some of what it written here has already appeared in my vast…
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This post is a little different to my others, as it originates from a nearly empty file of mine, despite lengthy searches for information. I have hit a wall, and so this post is more an appeal for information, than a crystallisation of my conclusions. It concerns an exceptionally rare Godzilla bootleg, produced in hollow…
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I read somewhere a long time ago that one of the problems (and excitements) of archaeological research into early hominids (species of ancient human-like creatures) is that when researchers went back to a dig site to try to find more fossils from this or that species, they frequently also found fossils from a completely new…
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(Images from Jamie Francis, and reproduced here with his permission) I hope not to shock devoted readers by a non vintage offering (here in an example in the collection of my friend and fellow devoted kaiju hunter, Jamie Francis: see Facebook and Instagram). However, this bicephalic Godzilla bootleg has so much charm that it is…
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Today I feel a bit foolish, but am glad of the chance to rectify my earlier omission. In my previous post on the Tsunami of Chinese-made Godzilla bootlegs for the Western market, I catalogued a bootleg of the Dor Mei Godzilla (my *Bootleg of Dor Mei model 1, the ‘lunar-crater skin Godzilla’ in my earlier…
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Sometimes the hunting of new and rare kaiju takes you into strange territory. While online and idling away a long sleepless night sometime ago, I stumbled across a toy offered by a Polish seller just north west of Warsaw, described as a USSR-made character named Cebulka (‘Little Onion’), but in fact a previously unrecorded Polish…
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My passionate love for all things JHL continues – a few weeks ago, I saw a sale post by the friendly and helpful Luis Cesar Marquez (I heartily recommend him to any reader as a contact in the Spanish toy-trade) and added an update to my main post on JHL about a brown variant with…
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I recently acquired this gloriously illustrated sticker album, complete apart from five stickers – and those missing stickers all from the last leaf of the book where the spaces for the final four stickers in the main sequence were repeated twice more at the end of the album – presumably to drive the original child-owner…
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As I have said in another post, the Dor Mei Godzilla bootlegs usually come in two colour schemes: green with orange highlights, and black with red or green highlights. But, there is a third, much rarer, variant in a pale blue-white base colour that was thickly painted over a dark (usually black) vinyl body, and…
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A pedantic reader might well make the assertion that the subjects of this particular blogpost are at some remove from Godzilla, and they may well be right. There is much of the silently screaming chinasaur here in both. However, when we turn to the ‘Kong Hong’ finger puppet here, it is clear that it was…
