Made-in-Japan toys
Posted by: kirin on 
Mar 9th, 2010 | 
Filed under: Something Interesting, What's New?
The video introduces what kind of toys are hot now inside and outside Japan!
Suffering from decreasing numbers of children, Japanese toy makers nowadays have to change target from kids to adult customers and foreign customers.
“Taikenou” (*caution: It makes sounds.) (2499yen) is a toy that allows us to have simulated experience of crime lab. The kit is not even a dummy, it’s exactly the same one that the examiners actually are using. There are several kinds of kits such as blood test, pH measurement kit, as well as the fingerprint detection kit introduced in the video.
“I-SOBOT” (*caution: It makes sounds after you choose your language.) is an expensive high tech robot (32,190yen) that is designed for adult customers to play with.
4D dissection puzzle and crystal puzzle are also popular. Above all, Choro-Q hybrid is overwhelmingly popular today. It recorded a huge hit with 200,000 sales from release.
Tamiya is the most famous plamodel toy company in Japan. There is a mini circuit on the 2nd floor of Tamiya plamodel factory in Shimbashi, Tokyo where salaried male workers drop by to play with their mini 4WD cars before they go back home. Most of them are the generation who played with mini 4WD car toys when they were kids. There are over 150 kinds of parts for modification to customize “my car”.
Foreigners also like Japanese toys, too. “Made-in-Japan” is regarded as a good brand in the U.S toy industry. Above all, Bakugan is bestselling in New York. Bayblade is so hot in Korea. They like to hold Bayblade tournaments from time to time.
Do you like Japanese toys?
I liked to play with Decotti from Takara Tomy. 
Same as kawaii, I don’t think it’s childish or silly for adults to play with toys like these. With kids, adults can enjoy more with these toys.
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March 9th, 2010 at 11:10 am
i play with Blythe dolls !
March 9th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
i still love toys even though im an adult! i especially love going to kiddyland and toys 'r us when i was in tokyo
i think bakugan is a big hit over here too at the moment
March 9th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
I love playing with Japanese toys. Toyota, Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki. The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.
March 9th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
I love alot of Japanese toys. They are so clever. I finally ordered a Decotti set because of your post. And I love it. I'm so addicted that I'm searching everywhere for them. Too bad I don't live in Japan. But, how clever is it to mimic pastry and decorate it. Just like the cars in this show, which is mimiking something real and people can add to it and bring it to live. I like stuff like that, or I'm still a big kid inside.
March 10th, 2010 at 1:23 am
I effing LOVE anything Hello Kitty > O o O < Now that I have the money to buy all the kawaii Japanese things I crave ^ u ^ <evil laugh>
March 10th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
LOL I like your comment!
March 10th, 2010 at 2:15 pm
I think it's fun to have a big kid inside~.
March 10th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
When we are kids, we have to ask our parents to buy toys or Kitty goods or candies and chocolates, but as we get old enough to be able to earn money by ourselves, we don't have to ask anyone for permission. That's where "Otonagai" (Adults buy small things as many as they like. Small things are usually such as what they wanted to have more when they were kids.) is from. ^ ^;
March 10th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
I find KiddyLand a fun place, too~. XD
April 15th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Gogle V, Sailormoon hologram cards, Kamen Rider *Kotaro Minami, Henshin!* goodies lol
while my younger bro lives in Beyblade era lol
I remember Tamiya lol its quite a hype in 90s, i also watched the anime
Hello Kitty is forever! Aah now i remember i have some san san wa wa stuffs too! Mostly stationary. Its "made in japan" too, right?
April 17th, 2010 at 5:21 am
San san wa wa?? I've never heard of the name…0_0;
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