{"id":6278,"date":"2018-05-11T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/index.php\/2018\/05\/11\/big-toys-week-rodan-by-matte\/"},"modified":"2019-09-08T18:38:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T18:38:57","slug":"big-toys-week-rodan-by-matte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/big-toys-week-rodan-by-matte\/","title":{"rendered":"BIG Toys Week: Rodan by Mattel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I cap off this theme week with one of my absolute favorite BIG toys of all time, Rodan! Toho movies were a treat for me growing up, rarely playing on TV, I can vividly remember watching each one I did catch.<\/span>
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<\/span> The weekly Godzilla cartoon and monthly Marvel comic were also enabling my love for Japanese Kaiju cinema. My single attempt to get a Mattel Godzilla toy was begging my parents to buy me one at Woolco.<\/span>
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Rodan was not released in Canada, so I was blissfully unaware of it. When I began toy collecting in high school, Godzilla and the Shogun Warriors were on my short list, basically I was fixing Santa’s mistakes.<\/span>
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<\/span>  I started by visiting kids I grew up with and asking if they still had their toys, I got a lot of weird looks, I also got a lot of cool old toys. I eventually graduated to late night calls to the shadow network of dealers and collectors in the United States.<\/span>
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<\/span> Everybody knew somebody and you’d get off the phone with one guy and have a new contact to call. One of them mentioned he had a Mattel Rodan, I probably swallowed my gum, I’d never heard of this toy, I NEEDED it.<\/span>
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<\/span> So after some negotiation, at 17 years old, I had a Mattel Rodan hanging over my dresser mirror complete with a cigarette in his mouth and a pair of tiny sunglasses. I wish I had a picture of this.<\/span>
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<\/span> He would be the first thing I saw every morning until college when I sold him for car money. It kind of stung to see him leave at that toy show…<\/span><\/p>\n

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Flash forward to 2007 when I encountered a great deal on a boxed Rodan, I snapped it up and put it on display. It was pretty magnificent, I’d hate to think what it would sell for now.<\/span>
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<\/span>  But for some reason, it brought me little to no joy. I eventually sold it to a friend for a friend price, he still mentions it.<\/span>
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<\/span> Later on, it dawned on me that sometimes “Mint in Box” isn’t as fun as loose. The Rodan I had as a teen didn’t have a box, heck he was missing his feet! So if I wanted a Rodan, it would have to be loose.<\/span>
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<\/span> And here he is, my 3rd Rodan toy hanging with some of my childhood toys,  hung over my workspace, he’s often one of the first things I see every day (after my dog). He never fails to bring me joy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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BIG Toys Week: Rodan by Mattel<\/a><\/blockquote>