Starlog stores in Japan
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Like a lot of 70s kids, I cut my nerdy teeth on Starlog magazine. It was basically my window into a world of wonder that wasn’t available where I grew up.
As a struggling student in the 90s, I used to visit the Starlog store in New Jersey twice a year and stare at the toys I couldn’t afford. That’s why I loved finding these shots and ads for the Starlog store in Japan in the late 1970s, I’d have killed to visit them.
Lots of cool vintage shots after the jump!
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American Comix appears to be the Japanese equiviliant of Heroes World, I can see some Gordy Rack Toys and even a Mego Thing action figure in there. I find it ironic that I used to visit the Starlog store in the states to ogle Japanese toys.
Here is the second store in Osaka, like I said, I’d pay twenty bucks to what it was like inside.
As a bonus vintage Japanese ads for American Star Trek toys
As a bonus vintage Japanese ads for American Star Trek toys
I went to the one in NJ once.