Toy links tagged "Takara"
Toys that transformed the world’s way of play.
“For us … these guys become human, we project ourselves onto them — our frailties and strengths; they act as our representatives in a fantasy world.”
1980 Diaclone catalogue translation.
“The history of Transformers has always been as interesting as the toys themselves.” (1981. Early 1982. Late 1982. 1983. 1983-84. 1985.)
Okude Nobuyuki interviewed.
“Our main target was boys, so we really looked for what the boys have around them and what they were interested in. Then we found that they all like cars!”
1983 Diaclone Car Robot Battle Convoy.
The toy that would become Optimus Prime. (See also.)
2021 Diaclone Battle Convoy V-Max.
Part of the Diaclone revival. (See also.)
1983 Tokyo Toy Fair.
Where Takara’s Microman Microchange and Diaclone Car Robot came to Hasbro’s attention. (YouTube, 24:39.)
Microman Zone catalogue.
“With the crisis of the great ‘oil shock’ in 1973, the large clear cyborg toys were getting too high-cost for manufacture, so some new scale formats were tried out …” (Parts 2, 3, 4, 5.)
Microforever.
“Microman Zone proved to be popular and by its second year Microman line began to take on its own identity and separated itself from the influence of the Henshin Cyborg line.”
Ogawa Iwakichi interviewed.
“… when we manufactured Jaguar, we used 3mm joints of ABS plastic for attachments. … Since the 3mm pegs seemed to break easily, I figured, okay, let’s go with 5mm. From that point onward, Takara has used the 5mm gauge for all their product’s molds ever since.”
Henshin Cyborg Henshin Sets.
These included Chojin Sets (featuring original character designs Birdman, Fishman and Beetleman) and Henshin Sets (featuring tokusatsu heroes).