Finding modern toy books is nearly impossible outside of specifically lego, meanwhile japan prints hobby mooks with no end.
I'd love multiple books on domestic lines, the same way the japanese have, but i guess americans can't read.
>>11481812 (OP)This kamen rider toy book, was literally made last month.
Japanese like the art of toys, while americans are just glorified hoarders
You will never be Japanese.
You have no yellow skin, you have no samurai blood, you have no epicanthic folds. All the "honor" your "friends" give you is two-faced and half-hearted. When the shame of your brownness becomes too much to bear and you finally commit seppuku with your $29.99 temu Ninja Sword, no one will mourn you.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no going back.
>>11481812 (OP)Japan has a big printing hobby community where people print material about their hobbies frequently. Fliers are very common, and certain movies will even have pamphlets. It is a thing I found unique to Japan. Maybe other countries do it too, but as far as I can tell Japan takes it quite far.
There used to be many figure magazines in the early 2000s and 2010s, but I assume the sales were bad so they stopped printing them. I know there are modern books on toy lines made in America still.
>americans can't read...as you post on an american website where people read posts all day long
>>11481944you mean a website full of incels complaining to no end because they can't make anything and cry about it endlesly
>>11481819Fuck japanese, this dude is seething at all times over america and americans. Its fucking amazing how often youll see his little ignored replies in various threads, like fuck man. Quit buying toys, get a job and apply for a motherfucking visa bitch.
>>11481962>just pack it up and head on over back home hombrekek, you faggots are gonna regret deeply deporting all the hard workers that make up the majority of American labor
>>11481812 (OP)Yes Americans are illiterate. More than half of us don't read at all. A good deal of the rest pretend to half read 1-2 books a year. At this point it's probably something like 1 in 8 people that actually read on a regular basis. And most of those are women and faggots reading books about fairies fucking each other.
Americans have the internet. There used to be a billion websites that all did the same job as books and magazines, some of which did a better job at it too.
Unfortunately, lowest common denominator and laziness killed most websites. So everything is now on youtube. This also makes searches for specific content impossible, so interviews, specific photos, etc need to be scrubbed through a video to retrieve them
You basically need a reference guide to even remember who said what and where in a video. I remember one of the most revealing takes about the retail market in an interview with Todd McFarlane. He said that his company needed to pay nearly 10 million dollars in penalty fees to retailers (like walmart) because the shipping crisis during COVID prevented his stock from getting to shelves on time. Yep, they needed to pay ~$10,000,000 because they did not have enough stock in stores.
I can no longer find that quote, because i'd need to manually watch 30 videos that are 1 hour each to find it. It's not something you can scrub a video through. Nevermind we also got info about why prices went up so fast. So we got a lot of info about the retail side of the toy industry, which is rarely ever talked about, because big businesses don't talk about it.
Anyway, another reason Japan still prints shit is due to costs. They live on a tiny island nation, so shipping costs nearly nothing compared to the US. They don't need a lot of distribution centers either, so that cuts down on costs too.
It's similar to Europe, where most gaming magazines from the 90s are still in business today.
In a country as big as America, it costs a lot of money to reach as many people, and there's a ton of competition in other mediums, so print is basically dead (still making more money than Europe, but to Americans that's death)
>>11482005>Americans have the internetAnd look how fucked their children are with iPads and needing constant stimulation. Americans are just straight up lazy and cannot make anything of value which is why all the jobs are moved overseas.
>>11482047>athenaRealizing that Athena was subjectanon all this time really fucking opened my eyes to the extent of his mental retardation.
>>11481815https://www.amazon.co.jp/S-I-C-HERO-SAGA-%E4%BB%AE%E9%9D%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC-%E4%BB%AE%E9%9D%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E7%B7%A8-%E3%83%9B%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%91%E3%83%B3MOOK/dp/4798611611
>January 30, 2016Japan does still prints plenty of toy hobby magazines, but why lie.
>>11481812 (OP)If Americans can't read, then there should be picture books instead. Also what's the point of buying books if the internet exists anyway? Why should I buy a complete He-Man or TMNT archive if I could just google or look up figure realm if the line keeps updating anyway? Also I hate old toys. Besides, books are full of missing data
>>11481812 (OP)Pixel Dan has written one about MOTU, and the first volume of his TMNT book series is about to be released. Four Horsemen just did one for Mythic Legions. There was a Transformers one a while back and there was one that covered the RAH era of GI Joe that is worth a fair bit now unless it got reprinted. Star Wars collectors guide is up to volume 3 or 4.
If Todd makes a book it will come with variant covers and an NFT.
What toylines do you want books on?
There is every chance that they have been printed but you are too retarded to be able to find them.
>>11482121Good for pixel dan
Mine started with a failed project to do all of marvel legends as a book, that never got off the ground. I only have a few pages and photos taken. I also want a tramsformers siege-kingdom book, since i own all of those figures. My dream book would be a full catalogue of power rangers toys.
The best toy books i've bought have been by alvarez on transformers. Its a pretty good archive of everything up to armada, and i think theres 3-4 books, but 2 are exactly the same.
I've also been a big gundam mook fan, since they were so pretty and perfect.
>>11482092Having high quality photos in hand, is not comparable to a google image search
>>11481812 (OP)Its because American companies went full retard and sent all their printing to China, which only ended up costing more because of exporting/importing. Japan has its own paper/printing industry so that's why it's so high quality. I really enjoyed buying Popeye/Brutus magazines/mooks back when Amazon JP shipping wasn't so dog shit.
>>11482196>Having high quality photos in hand, is not comparable to a google image searchThey're the same quality. And here's better quality: Actually owning the toys
>>11481812 (OP)>hobby mooks Maybe you are illiterate after all
>>11481812 (OP)You don't need toy books because you have the internet. Why buy a book that will be outdated in a matter of months when you have comprehensive free wikis that are always up to date? I suppose books would be useful for obscure, poorly documented toylines, but it's only a matter of time before there's a video essay.
>>11481944If you’re talking about stuff like Dengeki hobby I think they still made those magazines up until recently but moved it to a digital format. Not sure. I know that some gundam model kit reviewer was saying there are new gundam model kit physical magazines out still being made.
yeah I remember going to Japan town in sanfransisco back in like the mid 2000s and early 2010s and the book store had weird books that were essentially toy advertisements but for a specific toy line. Like just a bunch of promotional images and photos taken of one toy line. I assume with paragraphs of Japanese text and shit to read here and there. At the time it seemed lame to me but now that I’m older I see it as cool and a companion piece to own alongside your collection of that’s a thing you like a lot.
Someone was showing a fan made book that is like 100 pages or so dedicated to sd gundam gashapon figures recently. Came out of Japan made by a fan who documented all of the possible ones you can buy. Guess he self published it and sold it at a convention.
