BOOTLEG PRODUCTION MATERIALS – MOLDS ETC.
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I am starting to worry that I am becoming the Mason Verger of the bootleg-toy-world, occasionally being offered Godzilla production items by various incarnations of Barney the nurse, and completely unable to stop acquiring them for the thrills they bring me. I’m SURE it’s not that bad if it’s Godzilla bootleg stuff, as opposed to…
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(Images here from Otakumerica’s Instagram post; reused with their kind permission) Otakumerica continue to amaze with having the best stuff (plus also being the nicest and most helpful people – and those one in 100 toy-dealers who write back when obsessives like me ask really detail-focussed questions), and today they have listed this breathtaking nickel-copper…
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The company JHL are synonymous with European bootlegs of Godzilla, and yet very little is known about them. Like most toy bootleggers in Spain they operated out of Ibi in the south-eastern province of Alicante, and exploited the grey area between the existing Spanish legislation around bootlegging and the authorities lax enforcement of this for…
