Pure TokyoScope Podcast 171: My Posse's On (Nakano) Broadway
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture direct from Japan!
FULL EPISODE! This time on the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) once again gallop at high speed through Japan’s vintage toy nerd supermall known as Nakano Broadway! What did they find? Who will survive and what will be left of them? LISTEN NOW AND FIND OUT!
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SHOW NOTES
Four Rock Lords
Zoids Bigasauru
The FUCT of PEPSIMAN
Gridman Ramen Bowl
Saban’s Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad featuring Tim Curry as Kilokahn
Pierre Taki T-shirt worn by Mandarake Secret Shopper
Machine Robo Club BMX Bike
Space Runaway Ideon Choco Bar
Bowing (melting?) Princess Leia and Ben Kenobi Rubber Figures
Matt’s Big Azz Piece of Cake
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Alien Bendy Figure
Earth Squadron Fiveman Brother Combination Set
Jumbo Machinder-Sized Capsule Robo G
Zone Fighter Figures by Nakajima
Godzilla Scenes from Zone Fighter (1973)
Little Twin Stars First Aid Kit
Inflatable Madball
Bijin Sensei no Panchira Cassette Game by Takara
Golgo 13 plush toy with Nameneko Cats
Missile Mecha Godzilla T-shirt
The Bullmark Bandana
Rascal the Racoon Getting Wasted on Cheap Hooch
Matt’s Purchase: Daitemba (from Yattodetaman)
New show sponsor: The SF Saiyuki Starzinger Message Board
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