BOOTLEG TOKUSATSU HEROES
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Recently, a small cache of deadstock Polish colouring books began to emerge on the market. These measure 205 by 145mm., and are secured at their tops by staples (either side of a long hole cut for rack hanging or for a carrying by a child). They are reversible, with sets of line-drawn images with two…
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I accept that on the reading front, the world and I have diverged onto increasingly different paths – and if Melville or Tolkien wrote today they would be under pressure to get their point across in under 140 characters or in some earworm dance segment that reveals the author in his underwear in the last…
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As regular readers know, I try to keep it classy here, focusing my attention on the sophisticated and highbrow end of pachi and bootlegs. However, the popularity of a recent post on Instagram has persuaded me to open up the ‘guilty pleasures’ barrel and peek downwards at what lurks at the bottom. The public have…
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There are two main roads open to a toy bootlegger when they begin their noble work – either they try to reproduce something as perfectly as they can and attempt to ‘cuckoo’ their product in with the licensed items on sale, or, they set off on a cut-and-paste adventure, taking a little from this item…
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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…
