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    Museum Robot
    • May 9, 2007
    • 5786

    Japanese versions of US toys



    I thought it may be fun to look at a few (but not all) examples of how some American favourites looked like over in Japan, the land of amazing toys and cartoons.


    We'll start with the Mickey Mouse Snowcone machine, a take on the Snoopy Sno-Cone machine. This one confuses me because SNOOPY IS REALLY POPULAR IN JAPAN! Not sure why they switched to Mickey here.

    Much more after the jump!




    In terms of Sno-Cone makers I much prefer this pleasant snowman, I am unsure if he's a TV character or not.



    A take on "The Mighty Men and Monster Marker" was the Print 4000 series and featured characters from Ultraman and "Moero! Thunder 5". I wouldn't trade toys but wow, these are cool.



    Popy Godzilla may be a little shorter than his American borther but he's a got bigger....spines.



    Japan turned Stretch Armstrong into Mr. X and made even his box cooler.



    Bop Bags didn't feature Popeye or Bozo but characters like Mirror Man and the latest Ultra-Man character.

    The Easy Bake Oven became "Margaret's Cooking Oven", who's Margaret? My Gran was named Margaret and let me tell you, she was not a good cook.






    I close this off with Japan's take on Evel Knievel, which was smaller and of coruse THEY ADDED SUPERHEROES LIKE KAMEN RIDER TO THE MIX! Which keeps me up night.




    Konichiwa! Have a great weekend.










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  • Mikey
    Verbose Member
    • Aug 9, 2001
    • 47242

    #2
    I'm CRAZY-loving them Bop-Bags !!!

    Easy Bake is giving me the creeps cause i'm not sure if the box model is a real girl or a doll

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    • Hedji
      Citizen of Gotham
      • Nov 17, 2012
      • 7246

      #3
      Why does everything look cooler with Japanese writing on it?

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      • Mikey
        Verbose Member
        • Aug 9, 2001
        • 47242

        #4
        Originally posted by Hedji
        Why does everything look cooler with Japanese writing on it?
        Because to an English speaking person it's very mysterious

        It's like a wrapped Christmas present and all you can see is the tag with your name on it

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        • cjefferys
          Duke of Gloat
          • Apr 23, 2006
          • 10180

          #5
          Naturally, I love stuff like this! I have some Japanese toy pics on my computer here at work (because of course I do), so I thought I'd share some related ones.
          I'm not sure if some of this stuff got made, like the Captain Action Ultraman outfit (I don't think so though) and the Stretch Armstrong outfits (genius idea if they were made).

          stretch.jpg

          9OUZgZR.jpg

          4Ah1LnJ.jpg

          m86FuBa.jpg

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          • HardyGirl
            Mego Museum's Poster Girl
            • Apr 3, 2007
            • 13933

            #6
            That Easy Bake Oven ad is too cute. I had the American version when I was 7.
            "Do you believe, you believe in magic?
            'Cos I believe, I believe that I do,
            Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic
            If your mission is magic your love will shine true."

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            • Bravestarr
              Museum Super Collector
              • Mar 26, 2017
              • 185

              #7
              Very cool stuff

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              • Donkey Hoatie
                Supporter of Silliness
                • Jun 20, 2007
                • 783

                #8
                Wow. Great stuff.

                I loved Mighty Men and Monster Maker, but I would have loved that Print 4000 even more. Very, very cool.

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                • J.B.
                  Guild Navigator
                  • Jun 23, 2010
                  • 2881

                  #9
                  Odd that Popy went with Knievel's Wembley Arena jump for the box art. The Challenge Machine didn't quite meet the Challenge that day.

                  You are transparent; I see many things... I see plans within plans.

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                  • Klosterheim
                    Persistent Member
                    • Mar 23, 2013
                    • 1121

                    #10
                    I don't think anyone had a more successful toy-line of themselves than Evel Knievel!

                    I think when the first toys began to sell, Evel got two checks of $500,000 each! It must have been an astonishing figure for what the toy company actually made.

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