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Remember when GI Joe owned only the clothes he was wearing? Well, nowadays, soldier dolls have wardrobes to rival Barbie herself.
Toys Airmail has 12" dolls dressed in every kind of military and service uniform you could imagine, mostly from makers such as BrothersWorker and Hottoys. They generally go for between 15,000 and 18,000 yen, but feature an amazing array of incredibly detailed uniforms, helmets, weapons, tools, accoutrements, even medals, maps and sunglasses - all to scale. Airborne rangers, Navy SEALS, firefighters, British SAS outfits, Blue Angels, SWAT teams, NBC (Nuclear Biological Chemical) suits, and US Navy desert warfare uniforms. And in all sorts of eras too - from WW2 German Army and Nazi uniforms (which, rather ominously, sell out immediately) to US army outfits as worn in Afghanistan and Iraq. It's not all creepy military stuff, however. There are even dolls for pacifist movie and music fans. Who can resist the 12", fully poseable dolls of famous people such as Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau, or Meiji era hero Ryoma Sakamoto (in stripey hakama with sword and pistol), or the warring kids from Battle Royale 2, or the Mother of all Macho Dolls, Saddam Hussein himself. Our favorites had to be the beautifully serene Christopher Walken figure from "King of New York", the tragic Sid Vicious punk doll, and for a little nostalgia, the talking Pee Wee Herman doll. There's even a range of cutey animals from Eric So; Haha Ning's peculiarly hairy rectangular dudes; Jason Siu's Asian hiphop homies "Dancing with Gravity"; and the Abnormal Hobby Five from Hong Kong - extreme sporty types with light sabers! by Richard Jeffery |
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