That's a lot of toy packaging! Japanese toy companies used to be known for their more flexible price points and gorgeous box art; this was even the case when I was collecting Transformers. Sadly, this just isn't the case anymore; when Takara became Takaratomy, the MBA disease turned their local market releases mostly into Hasbro-releases as-is.
Lots of disaster imagery; the highway-as-a-boat is new to me. The "Ark of Space" with people being held back at gunpoint was particularly entertaining.
Thunderbirds was pretty influential in Japan (and with popularity lasting long enough to be issued on LaserDisc, then again on DVD and again on BluRay). You can see a lot of Gerry Anderson in 70s and 80s Japanese fictional mechanical design.
Every picture screams “Proudly hosted on photo bucket”, can we not find anyplace at all to host the images that doesn’t want to emboss their logo on 20% of the image?
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 61.2 ms ] threadLots of disaster imagery; the highway-as-a-boat is new to me. The "Ark of Space" with people being held back at gunpoint was particularly entertaining.
This dude posts so much quality, incredible work.
I know it doesn't make sense, but it would look so cool.
I think it might be proudly hosted on Photobucket.
Edit: just noticed the date of the post is June 2010.