Must Have Toy for Star Trek Fans!

Here in Japan, the US Navy has a base in Yokosuka. There is also a dry docks there for repairing and maintaining ships.

Not only that, Videosift, has found us a video of an underwater version of the USS Enterprise that the Navy boys have made at the dry docks....

Cool!

Watch the video:



Yes, this is cool. But this is also total and complete waste of taxpayers dollars and I wish they'd close that base down and send the boys back home to their families where they belong... But, if they are going to be here, I guess playing in the swimming pool with toys is better than harassing the locals or getting into trouble.

Go here to see a bunch of the other toys that the Yokosuka Dry Docks have made: http://www.youtube.com/user/YDDock

Perhaps the USA doesn't make anything anymore that anyone would want to buy (except weapons)... So maybe these guys in the Navy can learn a useful trade and, instead of creating misery with war, they can create happiness with toys someday.

Fabulous Collection of Old Japanese Robot Toys

There is a site of the Internet called Guy Antique that specializes in old Japanese toys and robots. Today, I have put up some for you to see:

It's hard to believe that we thought that this stuff was cheap junk back in those days but now they sell in the hundreds, if not thousands of dollars!

Go to Guy Antique to see hundreds more.

Marketing Japan: Lots of Japanese Toys & More from the 1960's!

By Mike in Tokyo Rogers


This just came across my desk and I thought it was a gas. It's a collection of TV commercials from the 1960's made by John Behrens and it is called, "Batteries Not Included."

I thoroughly enjoyed this film and was especially pleased that I am allowed to embed this on this site for your viewing pleasure. I remember some of these toys from the 1960's and wish I hadn't of bashed them up. Some of them are worth a fortune now! Especially the made in Japan cars that, when you examined them closely, you could see that they were fashioned out of aluminum beer cans I saw some of those in mint condition selling at a toy show a few years ago and they were going for $500 ~ $900 each!

Here are John Behrens comments:

Batteries Not Included a Film by John Behrens:

Batteries Not Included is a film that I put together early this year, after I made the film I did not know what to do with it because it is so much different than the Experimental art films that I am most known for doing. I decided to release this film on the internet and I thought the best place to do this would be right here on the Internet Archives.

About the Film:
Almost as long as I have been a filmmaker I have also been a film collector. I have for many years wanted to assemble a collection of vintage toy commercials into a flowing little feature length film, that feature all of these wonderful toys from 1950's 1960's and 1970's all of the major toy companies are represented in this film. Matel, Ideal, Hasbro, Marx, Aurora and many many others. So strap your self in and take a trip back through your childhood and you may discover a commercial for a toy that had a kid and my hope is that it will spark pleasant memory's from those days.


Enjoy and Best Regards
Jon Behrens

I greatly enjoyed this film and wish that you can see it now (or come back later when you have the chance). Wow! What a time trip!

This is a wonderful film and will take you back to a better time. For those of us born in the mid-1950's, it is a reminder that we were so lucky to have been born and lived in the most golden time that the USA ever had or probably ever will have.

Grab some popcorn, get your girl and watch this movie. Enjoy!   

To go to the original link, click here.... Tell them I sent you!

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