European made Pachi
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Here we take a trek into what is perhaps relatively unknown territory for many Godzilla and kaiju collectors – the lawless wastelands of 1980s and 1990s Italy and its prolific and inventive bootleggers. When collecting bootlegs, one occasionally finds illicit copying of intellectual property so blatant and shameless that you are tempted to stand and…
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I will discuss the ‘Super Dino Monsters’ minis line of pachi in another post, and will show there that these were probably produced by Muraoka in China at some point in the late 1980s, or more probably the early 1990s, and marketed to the United States and to Japan (in the latter’s case with the…
Confessions of a Kaiju Hunter 