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Anonymous Mon 26 Jan 2026 01:38:57 No.11687548 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11687991 >>11687993 >>11687994 >>11688013

I am 20 years old, I mostly collect Pokemon and other Nintendo statues/figures etc. I was on YouTube when this video popped up. I thought it was charming and cute about how toys were made in the 1980s back when people and not machine created toys.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Jan 2026 14:00:35 No.11687991 Report

Quoted By: >>11687994 >>11688007 >>11688017 >>11688108 >>11702999

>>11687548
>20 years old
Reminder that you can't be a real Pokemon fan if you're younger than the franchise itself

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Jan 2026 14:02:21 No.11687993 Report

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>>11687548
There is a movie that featured a bunch of Tomy wind up toys you may enjoy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Jan 2026 14:04:49 No.11687994 Report

Quoted By: >>11688000 >>11688007

>>11687548
TOMY made a whole lot of those small wind-ups, and yeah they were cute. They're collectible today, and some can get a little pricey.

>>11687991
Yeah you can. Bringing in new fans from new generations is how a line keeps going, you damn fool. Pokemon is at peak worldwide poularity and the #1 IP on the planet because of it.

And face it: NO ONE here is old enough to be an OG LEGO or Hot Wheels fan. This is how lines continue throughout the years, bro.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Jan 2026 14:17:17 No.11688000 Report

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>>11687994
>Pokemon is at peak worldwide poularity and the #1 IP on the planet because of it
Because of millenials spending fucktons of money on merch. You can like something but you that's different than being a true fan, and yeah there's lots of kids and zoomers that like Pokemon. But you can't tell me someone that wasn't even conscious when the Nintendo 3DS came out is as big as a fan as someone that has followed the franchise since the Gameboy era

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Anonymous Mon 26 Jan 2026 14:26:30 No.11688007 Report

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>>11687994
>>11687991
Only those who grew up with gen 1 are true fans. The rest of you guys are secondaries.

Also one thing I like about Nintendo that sadly never gets mentioned is their vintage toys from the 60s and 70s.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Jan 2026 14:33:00 No.11688013 Report

Quoted By: >>11688023

>>11687548
>Actual 30+ genwunners in here feeling a sense of superiority over younger fans
Pathetic. This is why Digimon will always be the patrician's choice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Jan 2026 14:35:40 No.11688017 Report

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>>11687991
If you didn't own any Pokemon movies or episodes on VHS.. fake fan...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Jan 2026 14:41:35 No.11688023 Report

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>>11688013
Didn't ask. Also if you're not gen 1 digimon and were there for Digimania then you are not a real fan.

>>11688017
>He doesn't have the shitty bootleg rubber toys
>He doesn't have the fake "Chinese rare holographic"
>He doesn't have the bootleg stickerbooks that would come from Mexico or Canada
>He doesn't have the Viz comics form the VHS tapes
>He doesn't have the gold ingots from Burger King that confused you as kid as to why the Burger King kids meal is coming with gold ingots of Pokemon instead of toys

Heh, nothing personell.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Jan 2026 14:45:22 No.11688026 Report

Quoted By: >>11688665 >>11699630

>>11688000
>you're not a true fan unless you comply to my measurement gauge
That's so arrogant to say. The younger generations will be the ones who keep the values of all you have up in the future, faggot. That's why baseball cards of people who have been dead for almost a century and no one alive today ever saw play are still worth a ton today. There isn't a comic book collector alive that bought that Action Comics #1 when it was new.

The OGs build the value, and the generations after that are the keepers or the destroyers of that value. A lot of baby boomer and gen-X toys are at peak value or declining value because of the later generations not being interested.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Jan 2026 16:05:06 No.11688108 Report

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>>11687991
>>11688007
Reminder that Pokemon is for autists like Chris Chan. Gatekeep all you want, your franchise is already tainted.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Jan 2026 22:51:31 No.11688665 Report

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Wasn't someone asking about similar shows like The Toys that Made Us?

>>11688108
Sneed more.

>>11688026
>He wasn't alive when Action #1 hit and picked up a copy with all his friends and then hit up the soda fountains at the local drug store
LMAOING @ U

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Anonymous Tue 27 Jan 2026 09:50:08 No.11689095 Report

Quoted By: >>11689360

Do people use this hands anymore in factory’s to make toys or is it 100% automated now

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Anonymous Tue 27 Jan 2026 09:53:50 No.11689098 Report

Quoted By: >>11689180 >>11689370

Here’s the link. All the good stuff starts at 20 min mark. I think the dinosaurs look like Zoids? Were Zoids around in the 1980s?

https://youtu.be/uLDoKgFw9RI?si=X0uOR3o9ObxqCZNI

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Anonymous Tue 27 Jan 2026 12:27:32 No.11689180 Report

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>>11689098
Zoids originated as Robostrux in 1983/1984, then rebranded as Zoids a year later. They had a brief re-launch around 1993 which failed, then had a big comeback in Japan around 1998. That eventually trickled into the US market around 2004.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Jan 2026 15:46:43 No.11689360 Report

Quoted By: >>11689570 >>11703459

>>11689095
I think painting and decals are still mostly a hand made process. The shapes of figures are probably all injection molding by machines.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Jan 2026 15:52:57 No.11689370 Report

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>>11689098
Ah, thanks man. I didn't know what to search for when I mentioned the movie earlier in the thread. This is good stuff man. Grab the old lady and the kids and watch this together.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Jan 2026 17:39:21 No.11689570 Report

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>>11689360
I’m gonna be honest I can’t imagine doing that eight hours a day over and over I mean, you would have to listen to music or something

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Anonymous Thu 05 Feb 2026 05:34:15 No.11699630 Report

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>>11688026
Heh

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Anonymous Sun 08 Feb 2026 03:42:53 No.11702999 Report

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>>11687991
You can't be a real pokemon fan if you are over 20 years old.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 08 Feb 2026 03:48:21 No.11703010 Report

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>>11689180
The 93 ones had a couple waves. I think it ran out of steam more than failed

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 08 Feb 2026 13:29:27 No.11703459 Report

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>>11689360
A lot of painting is dne by the "tampo" process, which is a combination of taking a laser-etched metal plate with the image in it, putting the paint in it, and using a rubber stamp to get that image and stamp it onto the toy. It really is the only way to do intricate details quickly in a factory mass-production process. Here's a video that shows it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX3fwGpT6Gs

But the tampo process is only used for fine details like the eyes and emblems. The rest is done with masking off areas using templates, and then spraying.

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