Look Out, There’s A Monster Coming – and it may be a fake!

Veteran kaiju collector Nabe Yakan sits in front of shelves lined with some of his treasures - colourful and now highly valuable plastic toys depicting kaiju and tokusatsu characters. Nabe wears black trousers, grey slippers and a black and white T-Shirt with the logo GODZILLA in bright red behind an image of the King of the Monsters, and holds a toy in each hand.

Vintage kaiju toys are achieving astonishing prices at auction – but that’s an incentive for sharks to gather. How can you know when you’re buying the real thing? And providing you think it’s beautiful, cute or otherwise life-enhancing and the price isn’t a rip-off, do you care? #PatrickMacias shares FRIDAY magazine’s report on #Tokyoscope https://www.tokyoscope.blog/p/vintage-kaiju-toys-in-japan-reach […]