It's not really related to the video but there is this Freddy Krueger doll that was pulled from shelves and I thought the story behind it was so cool and metal that I want it so bad! I hope to get it one day
I wonder why collecting things make us feel good. I love collecting old electronic watches and calculators and still do. It is curious that we do stuff like that. Besides that, I love these small batch toys. I respect such a craft.
I know right? Collecting is awesome, I collect treasure...over the years I've acquired a good number of items and even invested in bullion, but sometimes I like to just go into my cellar and open my hidden wall with my treasure chest in it, and I just dig through the jewels and gold and ivory...I am truly a goblin at heart
This video actually answered some kaiju questions I've had in the back of my mind for years. As a casual kaiju fan, I wondered what materials these old toys were made out of & why some of them had psychedelic looking paint jobs.
I had the pleasure of purchasing a signed Marusan Alien Baltan ( Ultraman ) Sofubi from Kaminaga himself just last week. Everything about these pieces of art are incredible.
Always loved seeing these little paint shops work. It's crazy how it's just these guys painting everything. A whole life making pretty and shiny toys. Thank you for your service!
This is one of the my favourite things about Japan. It would obviously make more economical sense for the country with the world's 4th largest GDP to outsource manufacturing where possible. It's what everyone else does. But Japan continues to make things in Japan because they *_want_* to continue making them in Japan.
I'm always fascinated by the obscure shops you can find in Japan. I lived in NYC for almost 30 years. Born and raised, and you don't get oddball shops like that specializing in extremely niche areas. Then again Tokyo is 4x bigger than NYC by population so I guess when you have so many damn people you're bound to have a market for everything. But still, it makes me wonder if they are far more voracious consumers than Americans when it comes to products other than necessities (toys, music, films, games, clothes, etc).
I used to work with Jeremy at a place called "English Pocket" (which wasn't the best place I've ever worked at). Jeremy helped to ease the suffering of working there.
That is so fucking cool. I personally have the rubber Keshi toys. I have a bunch of muscle men/kinnikuman. I knew about the soft vinyl fingers, but I didn't know that they were called sofubi and that more indie-like people were making them. I have a bunch of Bandai puppet finger Pokemon and I have some of the DX ones. Glad Asaka was able to prove herself and Goto-San is badass. The soft vinyl fingers are some of the coolest toys ever. I'd rather have a Kaiju painted by Goto-san than have an actual art piece. It's not only an art piece, but you can play with it as well.
Godzilla is my all-time favorite fictional character in movie history and my all-time favorite movie franchise from my childhood memories in the 2000s era after I was born on September 23rd, 1997.
Hedorah was always w us....just in a different way...every new G movie has Yoshmitso Banno in the credits!!! The movie supposedly Tanaka hated which I abso loved.
You should come to New Zealand and see what we have! There's a new event starting up called The Retro Event with a bunch of cool stuff (Comics, toys, games etc.), it's happening again in December :D
I got a big godzilla in the 1980s from hamleys in london I remember the funny looks I got taking him home on the bus, still got him he ain't going nowhere.
I remember i bought godzilla from 1980 the figure can walk by itself and when it stop he can breathe out smoke from his mouth. And i still keep the figure for collection
My terrible SECRET: I am a miniature arrmour maker and medieval armour restorer. I collect many things including REALLY cheesy AM Radios. When I find a 'new' old radio I open the battery bay and inhale!!! Oh, mamma, that old PCB varnish smell hits like nothing else! Anyway, happy collecting, and please don't tell anyone!! 🇬🇧⚒️🤫
Now I'm not saying that hard work and love isnt put into these figures but I AM SOOO GLAD IM NOT A FIGURE COLLECTOR!!!! I am a blu ray collector....i had all the blu ray G movies in 2016 before they were commercialy released. I bought them from an online company that added English subs to the movies. The biggest and BEST difference is the Criterion G Showa era u see the wires unfortunately.... the Japanese blu rays i bought in 2016 Toho did it right and u do not see the wires.
Great video Just received Marusan 350 Godzilla in Brown and Bronze yesterday The 350 line is my favorite Please tell them we need more Gappa version 2 please I desperately need one for my shelf I was coming to Japan in September but won't get my passport in time I really hope to one day see them all in person soon We have to find a way to get these great Sofubi to the US regardly
I commented this because originally, I'd watched the video just after it was uploaded, and I'd commented something about The Crafsman and how I thought his videos had inspired this one. Of course the comment was deleted. It might've been an automatic deletion by youtube, I did literally tell people to go to another youtuber. But I felt sad about it so I still wanted to comment _something_ about The Crafsman...
sometimes i think the area where i live is conservative, but then i hear someone say they were told that making toys isnt a womans job, and it puts things in perspective
Part of me wonders if it is because making these toys involves a certain amount of strength and Japanese beauty standards have women in very small sizes. So the sexism starts there.
As someone who lives in Japan, many Japanese women are no bigger than a 6th grade elementary kid. If we're talking about a heavy steel mould, then yeah, a woman might simply not have the physical strength to lift it, no matter how "conservative" or "progressive" a society is. Also, Japan has had images of famous women printed on their banknotes since 2004. In both cases, famous feminist icons. Can you say the same thing about your supposedly more progressive country? I doubt it.
Damn, any of those sofubi makers offering apprenticeship? Given the kind of shit I enjoy drawing I feel like I was born for this craft (in the wrong country and year tho)
They became collectable because the kids that watched them got older and earned money and had disposable income to buy these items for nostalgic memories.
Sofubi was once the cheapest, most low end toy technology. A gokin would be 4000 yen and a vinyl version 250 yen. Now, somehow, despite gokin tech being more developed than ever and vinyl tech being exactly same as it was 50 years ago, its new VINYL toys that cost the most now. Its completely flipped. I'm not talking about collectors pricing, I mean new items. Has anyone contrived some sort of explanation for this? Why is a hollow five piece vinyl Gold Lightan more expensive than a transforming, die cast one that is literally played in actual 24k gold?
What's a rare toy you love or want to get? 👀🤩
A hundred years of producing toys that end up in landfill... 😒
It's not really related to the video but there is this Freddy Krueger doll that was pulled from shelves and I thought the story behind it was so cool and metal that I want it so bad! I hope to get it one day
@@ropro9817 and what do you think happens to the smartphone or laptop you used to type this response?
Marmit burning godzilla 95
X-Plus Yuji Sakai Burning Godzilla 1995 30cm or the Gigantic one
Thank you for visiting and documenting my collection! It was an honor 🙇♂
Awesome toy collection! Congratulations on even being able to create it! (Let’s pretend it didn’t cost you MORE than an arm and a leg)
Congrats man !!! And thank you for always sharing your knowledge 🫡
Congrats, TTB! It's so cool to see you on a Great Big Story spotlight!
username checks out XD
@@muttrogers6586 thank you so much!! 🙏
4:10
omg, that little chubby Gamera is so cute
4:52 this one looks even cuter lol
i got the same little guy for cheap on eBay! without the box and in lesser condition lol
As an adult who recently started collecting kaiju figures again and unboxed all of them from my youth, I found this video quite touching.
Woah, this is so sweet 🥹🥺
I had the mass produced American Godzilla as a kid. Fired rockets I believe. These are dope. Another level of the toy game.
I wonder why collecting things make us feel good. I love collecting old electronic watches and calculators and still do. It is curious that we do stuff like that.
Besides that, I love these small batch toys. I respect such a craft.
Its the nostalgia feeling, for me i could not afford to collect back then so now that i can buy these it just brings back memories.
I know right? Collecting is awesome, I collect treasure...over the years I've acquired a good number of items and even invested in bullion, but sometimes I like to just go into my cellar and open my hidden wall with my treasure chest in it, and I just dig through the jewels and gold and ivory...I am truly a goblin at heart
I see Godzilla I click immediately. Love this story!
We LOVE that 😝
6:29 Mashu is one of the cutest toy critters I've ever seen. In the words of Dr. Zoidberg "I'll take eight!".
This video actually answered some kaiju questions I've had in the back of my mind for years. As a casual kaiju fan, I wondered what materials these old toys were made out of & why some of them had psychedelic looking paint jobs.
亜～ちゃん、見たよー！
海外進出ご出演おめでとう♬
I had the pleasure of purchasing a signed Marusan Alien Baltan ( Ultraman ) Sofubi from Kaminaga himself just last week. Everything about these pieces of art are incredible.
This is honestly an awesome exploration as a Godzilla fan
yeahhh im happy too because there was a vintage sofubi😂
🥹❤️
Always loved seeing these little paint shops work. It's crazy how it's just these guys painting everything. A whole life making pretty and shiny toys. Thank you for your service!
No experience can replicate the feeling of unboxing art like this that you know was expertly crafted with the utmost care.
Great Big Story and the Great Big Kaiju: my two favorite things together. 😮
Reminds me of my Warhammer days. I must buy one!
Someone's dark secret past ia coming out.
Wow! You guys are back, and you brought my favorite thing in the world: a Godzilla sofubi figure!
ASAKA HAD NO BUSINESS BEING THAT CUTE WTF
Sofubi Godzilla figs are so awesome. There's just something different from American figures and the classic Japanese figures
5:54 wow, she also knows how to make the items she models. She also designed one.
japanese culture is so fascinating ❤❤❤
The fact that Godzilla has never faced Ultraman is criminal. Hope Hollywood, Toei and Tsuburaya could make it happen!
Well, about that...
Have you seen the first 5 Ultraman? I say Gojira should pass 😁
They did make a toy where they combined with Kamen Rider and Evangelion to make a megazord.
Spectacular video and story!! The way the Sofubis are made is magnificent, truly art pieces.
This is one of the my favourite things about Japan. It would obviously make more economical sense for the country with the world's 4th largest GDP to outsource manufacturing where possible. It's what everyone else does. But Japan continues to make things in Japan because they *_want_* to continue making them in Japan.
They outsource a lot too.
ソフビ初心者にはCCPのミドルサイズシリーズがおすすめです
買いやすいし、小さくて場所をとらないし、ラインナップもカラーバリエーションも豊富ですよ
ゴジラが多いですが年末にはガメラシリーズもリリース予定です
I really admire the dedication of the works and artistry
Very cool ….. I loved visiting these shops in japan
I'm always fascinated by the obscure shops you can find in Japan. I lived in NYC for almost 30 years. Born and raised, and you don't get oddball shops like that specializing in extremely niche areas. Then again Tokyo is 4x bigger than NYC by population so I guess when you have so many damn people you're bound to have a market for everything. But still, it makes me wonder if they are far more voracious consumers than Americans when it comes to products other than necessities (toys, music, films, games, clothes, etc).
Goto-San & Asaka are heroes.
Excellent video - nice to see Megalon getting some love there!
I used to work with Jeremy at a place called "English Pocket" (which wasn't the best place I've ever worked at). Jeremy helped to ease the suffering of working there.
Good I support Japan manufacturers
yay more great big story godzilla content
Wow! Old school figures!
Thank you documenting sofubi toys
Love all the Megalon cameos!
That is so fucking cool. I personally have the rubber Keshi toys. I have a bunch of muscle men/kinnikuman. I knew about the soft vinyl fingers, but I didn't know that they were called sofubi and that more indie-like people were making them. I have a bunch of Bandai puppet finger Pokemon and I have some of the DX ones. Glad Asaka was able to prove herself and Goto-San is badass. The soft vinyl fingers are some of the coolest toys ever. I'd rather have a Kaiju painted by Goto-san than have an actual art piece. It's not only an art piece, but you can play with it as well.
Godzilla is my all-time favorite fictional character in movie history and my all-time favorite movie franchise from my childhood memories in the 2000s era after I was born on September 23rd, 1997.
Hedorah is everywhere, wow!
Hedorah was always w us....just in a different way...every new G movie has Yoshmitso Banno in the credits!!! The movie supposedly Tanaka hated which I abso loved.
Amazing video. Thank you
So cooooool!!!!! 👏🏽
They look fire 🔥🔥🔥 they remind me of ultraman figures
You should come to New Zealand and see what we have! There's a new event starting up called The Retro Event with a bunch of cool stuff (Comics, toys, games etc.), it's happening again in December :D
I got a big godzilla in the 1980s from hamleys in london I remember the funny looks I got taking him home on the bus, still got him he ain't going nowhere.
Beautiful subject matter! Thank you for showing us the world 😊
Great video. I just wish it wasn't so short.😊
Goto-san is such a sweet and talented man
I want a sofubi Astroboy...hmmm where to start ???❤ oh and a Godzilla !!! Mothra ...
Back when my dad was a kid, that eraser (it's called kin keshi btw) only costs 20 yen which is around 13 cents. Crazy how it turned up to be now.
I have a Godzilla collation of over 10000 figures. many sofubi painted by this man
Thank you for making white subtitles on a white background.
Yessssss!
This is so beautiful, I love this story. 0:41 who’s this cute Kaiju?
Chinpoko
That background music tho
YEA ANOTHER GODZILLA VIDEO WOOOO
I remember i bought godzilla from 1980 the figure can walk by itself and when it stop he can breathe out smoke from his mouth. And i still keep the figure for collection
Pretty awesome of our favorite Figures i own Bandai Sofubis they are very affordable
Beautiful work !
My terrible SECRET:
I am a miniature arrmour maker and medieval armour restorer.
I collect many things including REALLY cheesy AM Radios.
When I find a 'new' old radio I open the battery bay and inhale!!! Oh, mamma, that old PCB varnish smell hits like nothing else!
Anyway, happy collecting, and please don't tell anyone!! 🇬🇧⚒️🤫
Freaking awesome!! #1
Now I'm not saying that hard work and love isnt put into these figures but I AM SOOO GLAD IM NOT A FIGURE COLLECTOR!!!! I am a blu ray collector....i had all the blu ray G movies in 2016 before they were commercialy released. I bought them from an online company that added English subs to the movies. The biggest and BEST difference is the Criterion G Showa era u see the wires unfortunately.... the Japanese blu rays i bought in 2016 Toho did it right and u do not see the wires.
That’s so cool! I go to sofubi stores regularly
Great video Just received Marusan 350 Godzilla in Brown and Bronze yesterday The 350 line is my favorite Please tell them we need more Gappa version 2 please I desperately need one for my shelf I was coming to Japan in September but won't get my passport in time I really hope to one day see them all in person soon We have to find a way to get these great Sofubi to the US regardly
COOL ‼️ Great documentary ❤️
Ok when I visit Japan I'm 100% going to Nakano Broadway and getting something there
King of monsters!
Amazing!
What a great video, very interesting watch!
I totally wanna buy one!
Beatiful video
I used to get these at sfv swap meet back in the 90s. They were cheap.
I hope you snag a couple good ones I bet at least one has to cost a pretty penny
I'll get one those rare toys someday
I am currently building a Mechagodzilla and Morgoth out of Lego Bionicle and Technic myself. 💎
The background music shouldn't be as loud as the person speaking, even if they are speaking Japanese.
awesome!
Beuatiful artform
Keep on steady crafting!
I commented this because originally, I'd watched the video just after it was uploaded, and I'd commented something about The Crafsman and how I thought his videos had inspired this one. Of course the comment was deleted. It might've been an automatic deletion by youtube, I did literally tell people to go to another youtuber. But I felt sad about it so I still wanted to comment _something_ about The Crafsman...
Great video 🔥 I've many videos on sofubi toy hunts!
Guillermo del Toro like this 😁
Very groovy!
I literally just watched the Godzilla vs King Kong rap battle and now this shows up on my feed!
These are awesome 😁
I have aged out of the figure buying now but it is still amazing to see the artistry of these figures. I love the detail
Guy looks like a old world master
GBS Nice
🎌🦖🎌
sometimes i think the area where i live is conservative, but then i hear someone say they were told that making toys isnt a womans job, and it puts things in perspective
Part of me wonders if it is because making these toys involves a certain amount of strength and Japanese beauty standards have women in very small sizes. So the sexism starts there.
As someone who lives in Japan, many Japanese women are no bigger than a 6th grade elementary kid. If we're talking about a heavy steel mould, then yeah, a woman might simply not have the physical strength to lift it, no matter how "conservative" or "progressive" a society is.
Also, Japan has had images of famous women printed on their banknotes since 2004. In both cases, famous feminist icons. Can you say the same thing about your supposedly more progressive country? I doubt it.
I guess human desire is endless. People will literally collect anything.
Damn, any of those sofubi makers offering apprenticeship? Given the kind of shit I enjoy drawing I feel like I was born for this craft (in the wrong country and year tho)
Dude your profile picture is rad
I saw Hayata! 3:52
nice
wow damn!
very nice
Godzilla toys are made from plastic and painted with organic paint.
7:25 my son loves kinnkuman 😂
GOTO-SAN MUST BE PROTECTED AT ALL COSTS
🤯😱!!!!!!
They became collectable because the kids that watched them got older and earned money and had disposable income to buy these items for nostalgic memories.
Sofubi was once the cheapest, most low end toy technology. A gokin would be 4000 yen and a vinyl version 250 yen. Now, somehow, despite gokin tech being more developed than ever and vinyl tech being exactly same as it was 50 years ago, its new VINYL toys that cost the most now. Its completely flipped. I'm not talking about collectors pricing, I mean new items. Has anyone contrived some sort of explanation for this? Why is a hollow five piece vinyl Gold Lightan more expensive than a transforming, die cast one that is literally played in actual 24k gold?
Toei, Nintendo, and Nomura Toy factory.
Expensive