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First adult toy

Anonymous Fri 10 Feb 2017 07:12:43 No.6175316 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>6176090 >>6176668 >>6177082 >>6177201 >>6187505

What was the first toy specifically made for an adult audience?

Of course some adults collect retail TFs, Joes and Lego but I'm talking about things like Hot Toys figures, Sentinel super robots, TF Masterpieces and such. Real toys (no statues) designed for an adult owner.

I'm also very interested into the context. Why did it happen? Was there a demand at the time or did the makers created it?

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Anonymous Fri 10 Feb 2017 07:17:24 No.6175325 Report

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Anonymous Fri 10 Feb 2017 07:21:38 No.6175331 Report

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>>6175325

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Anonymous Fri 10 Feb 2017 07:56:28 No.6175354 Report

Quoted By: >>6176441 >>6176753 >>6188369

Hard question since first you'd have to define what qualifyes as an adult toy. You could make the case that the really expensive, intricate gokin toys that emerged during the 80's were aimed more to older people since letting children go to town with them would be irresponsible.

Might be relevant http://www.collectiondx.com/toy_review/1986/act_10_monoseed_type_iii

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Anonymous Fri 10 Feb 2017 20:44:07 No.6176090 Report

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>>6175316

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Anonymous Sat 11 Feb 2017 01:14:06 No.6176441 Report

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>>6175354
Actually meant to post the bit in this page

http://www.collectiondx.com/toy_line/spiral_zone

>Spiral Zone detail balanced a fine line between toy and model kit and was aimed towards the high dollar toy and model kit collector market and were mostly advertised in model magazines such as Hobby Japan.

So around 1985, perhaps earlier

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Anonymous Sat 11 Feb 2017 02:25:58 No.6176572 Report

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>>6175331
I wish GSC would do a Tabletop Museum for Venus of Willendorf and a regular figma of Porkchopaco.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Feb 2017 03:27:17 No.6176668 Report

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>>6175316
Bild Lilli, the German predecessor of Barbie. Lilli was the star of a German comic strip lampooning the idea of the modern career woman in the 1950s.

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Anonymous Sat 11 Feb 2017 04:31:56 No.6176753 Report

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>>6175354
>what's an adult toy

This.

We could classify as toys a load of things, and some would be hardly accepted as toys for most of people here, like puzzles, airsoft guns or TGC.

Now, if we follow the idea of articulated figures which are too delicate to be ham handed by regulars kids, that's it, articulated figures designed for interaction with adults for the mere purpose of entertainment, then I would nominate the karakuri puppets as some of the oldest adult toys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakuri_puppet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaTqUl9vSvg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nonsKy1xcM

https://youtu.be/i5zYK9FxORI

Although, to be fair, this kind of technology goes back to the greek, and yes, some were employed for entertainment purposes, and not merely exhibition.

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Anonymous Sat 11 Feb 2017 05:03:16 No.6176787 Report

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I mean there's been porn/hentai toys for a while.

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Anonymous Sat 11 Feb 2017 09:48:11 No.6177066 Report

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anyone remember these? these sucked. the suncoast couldnt get rid of them for a while til one day i came in. anime was still a good ol' fad at the time with Toonami, [AS] and G4's Anime Unleashed blocks coming around

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Anonymous Sat 11 Feb 2017 10:21:24 No.6177082 Report

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>>6175316

>>itt op is clearly asking about action figures and plastic toys but everyone is a semantic autist and posts fertility idols and puppets and "what is a toy, anyways" philosophy

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Anonymous Sat 11 Feb 2017 10:43:57 No.6177095 Report

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>>6176572
Seconding.

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Anonymous Sat 11 Feb 2017 10:46:28 No.6177099 Report

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>>6176441
Thanks, that's exactly the kind of things I was asking for.

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Anonymous Sat 11 Feb 2017 13:35:53 No.6177201 Report

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>>6175316
Considering I have no idea when I bought my Marvel Legends figures, I guess I'd have to go with the MP-4 Convoy.

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Anonymous Sat 11 Feb 2017 14:58:00 No.6177268 Report

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>>6175325
I read an interesting theory that these were fertility gods sculpted by pregnant women by looking at their bodies from above.

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Anonymous Sat 11 Feb 2017 16:18:51 No.6177345 Report

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>>6177201
My guess is that you should read further than the thread title.

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Anonymous Sat 11 Feb 2017 21:10:36 No.6177673 Report

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>>6177268
I read a similar thing. Someone also proposed it was a self-portrait with additional curves to be a sort of reference sculpture of what a healthy pregnancy should look like. Like a Paleolithic equivalent of an ultrasound.

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Anonymous Mon 13 Feb 2017 05:16:37 No.6179882 Report

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>>6177099
But that's factually wrong.

The first adult toy marketed as such was Bild Lilli:

>http://time.com/3731483/barbie-history/
>"Lilli dolls could be bought in tobacco shops, bars and adult-themed toy stores,”

It eventually became Barbie, but that doesn't change the fact it was a toy, a fashion doll, specifically aimed at adults.

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Anonymous Mon 13 Feb 2017 08:46:49 No.6180084 Report

Quoted By: >>6180111

yo-yo

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Anonymous Mon 13 Feb 2017 09:18:10 No.6180111 Report

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>>6180084
i like you

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Anonymous Mon 13 Feb 2017 09:20:56 No.6180113 Report

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>>6177345
I did.

I don't understand what you're getting at. That I'm not following the meme instead of actually taking OP's question seriously?

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Anonymous Thu 16 Feb 2017 19:45:40 No.6185819 Report

Quoted By: >>6185821

Oldest one I can think of is Bild Lilli. She was the German forerunner to Barbie. She was very much not for children, Think she was used to sell cigarettes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild_Lilli_doll

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Anonymous Thu 16 Feb 2017 19:47:02 No.6185821 Report

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>>6179882
>>6185819
Beat me to it.

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Anonymous Thu 16 Feb 2017 19:50:14 No.6185830 Report

Quoted By: >>6187295

I saw a vintage Bettie Boop doll from the thirties once. Pretty naked so I guess it was for adults.

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2017 01:14:44 No.6186279 Report

Quoted By: >>6188029

>>6180113
>That I'm not following the meme
Wha... what does that even mean?

So you're not "following the meme," and not taking OP's question seriously, so what are you doing?

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2017 13:19:44 No.6187295 Report

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>>6185830
It was probably a novelty item, not a toy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2017 16:00:04 No.6187505 Report

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>>6175316
From what I can tell the adult-oriented toys first started showing up in the 90's with the Japanese stuff.

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2017 16:16:50 No.6187530 Report

Quoted By: >>6188068

I'm going to take a shot and say it was either when "comic store only" toys 1st showed up at your LCS or when you could buy Spawn toys at your local Wal Mart

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2017 19:59:04 No.6188029 Report

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>>6186279
>and not taking OP's question seriously
???

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2017 20:16:57 No.6188068 Report

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>>6187530
While those weren't the -first- toys marketed to adults that was a very important time that changed the market. McFarlane deserves some credit for basically creating the market for the ((adult)) toy figure hobby in the west.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2017 22:16:31 No.6188343 Report

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>>6188029
Nobody asked what was the first toy you bought as an adult. Read the thread.

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Anonymᴑus Fri 17 Feb 2017 22:26:53 No.6188369 Report

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>>6175354
>>6176753
probably the first good-quality string puppet or similar then

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