All Posts with tag "vintage"

I'm back again with a sale that covers a lot of ground, rare, vintage and bargain. From a collection owned by my friend, he buys all his figures through trusted UK distributors and Mandarake. Many are unopened and in mint condition. There are some be...

Did you know that Nintendo produced board games in the 1960s and 1970s, many based around manga and anime figures, like Ultraman, UltraQ and Qtaro? Find out more about these games in this post on my blog beforemario.com.

These great vintage dolls where created by none other than Nintendo, in 1968! They are called People House (ピープルハウス). Read all about them on my beforemario blog.

Just returned from a one week toy shopping excursion to Tokyo...so exhausted now, but I of course had to set everything up for a pic. :) It's all still out on the floor, waiting for me to find some room (next to impossible) to display some of it. Sh...

In the late 60s, Nintendo created a range of construction sets with colorful plastic blocks, called Nintendo Block (任天堂 ブロック). In the latest post on my blog we take a look at some of the coolest of these, featuring the Silver Kamen, Kamen Ride...

So a few friends that know I like old (vintage) LCD games sent me this site that emulates old LCD games in Flash (for FREE!), which ironically led me to like one of the as-yet-undiscovered-by-me games so much that I hunted it down on ebay and bought...

Some weeks ago I announced a new blog dedicated to vintage Nintendo toys and games. Over the last weeks I have been busy adding content. Check it out: beforemario.com. Your thoughts on these Nintendo vintage items?Wow! Amazing! Tell me more. 0%Intere...

This is my first figure, a Christmas gift from my friends five years ago... It all started from her, my long and blood/money-sucking way into the AF world. I hope you'll appreciate my work, all kind of critics (the one of the constructive kind) are s...

Two packages today! Sadly, no BRS & co yet.. Nearing a month. Oh, the mail service is horrible here when they decide to tax it..

I cannot believe it, but somehow I was unable to find any reviews or even any pictures of this late 2003 figure. This figure is absolutely gorgeous and made with a lot of attention to details. The one we recently adopted seems to be another victim to...

I have always wanted to go back and do some vintage figure shoot, but the lack of proper equipment has prohibited me from doing so. Some of my earliest prepainted figure collection date back about 7 -9 years or so and the picking were slim back in t...

One of lesser-available figures of wounded Rei. But we like this one a lot even though the face is somewhat scary. 1/4 scale from Kaiyodo, Wonders Showcase Plus. Released in January 2003, so not very vintage, but still not very modern either. There i...

A photo of my only Rei figure, a vintage one at that. A photo from my archives. Manufacturer: Kotobukiya Scale: 1/8 Material: PVC Producer: Takayuki Kawahara Original: Evangelion Release Date: Late May., 2007

For my next vintage post I have select a old Max Factory highlight from the anime Gaogaigar. She called Utsugi Mikoto was made in PVC and scale 1/6 .

Here are another two <old> ladys from the good old slayers universe. Bandai has made it in PVC very well. This have I find it in 1999 on a trip to Hong Kong there are many nice shops near Causeway Bay

My mini figurines from an 80's series called Touch that was extremely popular in Japan. My friend ended up getting these for me of Yahoo Japan Auctions from Christmas. (Thank you Joanna =W=). These figurines are pretty old but, I really do love them...

some of my old vintage figures, the oldest of which is Belldandy. wasn't into figure collecting when I first got this figure, but was a a fan of the old anime series. I remember when I first got this figure, I was baffled on how they could sell a toy...

Now, this one (I am sure everybody is familiar with it and many would like to have it) was hard to find! (for thos who happen not to know, this is famous Belldandy and Holy bell from Volks, limited release). Special thanks to Microsoft for paying 20%...

My favourite Vintage figure is my Good Smile Nagi, from Peace @ Pieces. However since Dannt already posted that, I thought I'd use a different figure, so heres my second favourite. Tama Chan. I think she was released about 2005/2006 ish? Made by Soli...

Well, I want to show in my next vintage theme three ultra rare cuties from the world of Di Gi Charat. All three are from clayz/japan in scale 1/8 and near nine years old and for this time, I mean very well made, but please look self... first the main...

This my favorite figure in my collection. Naru was released in 2005 by Max Factory.

Following the "Vintage Figure" topic trend, thought I would share one of my favorite older figures. I actually think that this Saber figure was my first Alter figure, and I absolutely love her. There have been a few figures released of Saber in her...

This is my goth Asuka figure, from around 2006... ish. Im pritty sure a new run was done recently,a s she seems to be back in stock all over the interent.... Also for your viewing pleasure, my Primu figure from Shuffle! (also from 2006...ish)

I only started collecting figures in 2007, so don't really have a lot of old figures. The oldest figures I own are probably these two, Alter 1/8 Jo and Kotobukiya 1/8 Chise, both are release in 2005.