ancient Japanese toys...

I am not a huge toy collector these days- I ruin collectability by actually taking them out of their boxes and playing with them- but I do like the occasional cool piece.

growing up in Colorado, there were not a lot of these sorts of toys or figures or dolls or what have you. which is why I cut out this here newspaper article back in the 80s sometime.  the school in Chicago might as well have been on the moon at that time.

sure would have been fun to see at the time, and then let them know at least what some of the monsters were.