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Takara Tomy Caveman
Our very good friend Andreas Dittmann has sent some photos of the Takara Tomy Caveman and saber tooth tiger. The caveman is between 52mm to 54mm. Takara Tomy also has done dinosaurs.
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The name of historical series is Takara Tomy A.R.T.S.
Takara Tomy is the most powerful and largest producer of toys from Japan. They are provider number one of most toy for educational toys, vendor machines toys and or Gashapon companies in Japan and South Korea,India and others.
Few NYC and California cities Japanese and non Japanese store carry some toys from them too.
TAKARA TOMY is a Japanese toy maker and distributors of many of most export main brands Japanese toys, included the original transformers, beast/animal transformers and others designed and created by then as well.
TOMIYAMA was funded in 1924/27 and is the only Japanese toy company that produced “not western” related or influenced toys made of resin/composition,metal,lead ,wood and tin before the WW2.
It still manage produce during WW2 but limited .
It survived the WW2 and years after merger with TAKARA-”founded in 1955”
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They did among first any in the ARTS series samurai(not painted) in 50/52 mm(I got them) and much later star wars painted(I got few only) in 54 mm in three different series, very large collection that included 6- 8 action storm troopers least ,4 clone troopers and most main charters from all movies.Price range from $4-10 per figure or if you lucky and play in machine got it x few coins only.
Also did 54 mm key change star wars figures in plastic solid poses ,some in nice action poses others more statue type.
They did a chess set star wars with figures in 60 mm plastic action poses in unpainted and painted variation too.
They did 6 other poses of caveman a mammoth and plenty animal in scale with.
And of course the military small scale replicas for museums distribution/sale too that had thousand or armor,airplanes,weapons,ships and else (HO) and less.
The above ANIA series start in 2012 for school related stores and now sold everywhere.
Here are few Star Wars TAKAR TOMY samples in eBay,I had seen then often on amazon or by few Japanese stores, any how in all are overpriced versus cost in Japan
The figures (with exception of those in chess set) are 54 mm scale .
I had never see in front me the chest set but understood once out base pedestal the figures are about 60 mm tall according to what I red in one Japanese blog.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/111972567927?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
http://www.ebay.com/itm/221976007631?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
http://www.ebay.com/itm/STAR-WARS-The-Force-Awakens-Stormtrooper-Figure-keychain-Takara-Tomy-Arts/272103880343?rt=nc&_soffid=5015586802&_soffType=OrderSubTotalOffer&_trksid=p5731.m3795
Nice !