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30 Oct 2012

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Collegeville Ninja Costume – 1986

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 3 - Toys and Merch, 4 - Collectibles | 0

Felt obligated to get a quick Halloween post in this year in the midst of all the book stuff going down at FPU. This Collegeville kids vinyl costume is from 1986, with art based on the classic ninja dart board. … Continued

Collegeville costumes, Halloween
20 Oct 2012

What I’ve been up to outside of shinobi-dom…

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 7 - Ninja Miscelany | 0

Not to drag the scene down with off-topic plugs, but I’ve finally gone public with the big project that kept me largely away from here all summer. ZOMBI MEXICANO is a new book published through my From Parts Unknown imprint, … Continued

14 Oct 2012

Random acts of hooded heroism

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 1 - Film and TV | 2

None of the below are really ninja, but we’ve always made room for the shadowy masked vigilante swordsmen here, so following is just a crap load of hooded hero awesomeness. And some related merchandise: …and a few hoodies nasties, too. … Continued

kurozukin
3 Oct 2012

Things I did not buy on eBay this Summer

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 3 - Toys and Merch | 2

For the past few months, I’ve been saving the pennies for a new book project coming in late October over in From Parts Unknown land, so of course a ton of ultra rare and cool shit shows up on eBay. … Continued

Remco, Select Merchandise, Select Toys
22 Sep 2012

Things we love: bad and misleading VHS art

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 1 - Film and TV | 1

 

VHS art
12 Sep 2012

MASTER OF NINJA shinobi ‘army guys’

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 3 - Toys and Merch | 4

Little toy soldiers. 54mm-scale figurines. Plastic army men. Whatever the formal term of the ubiquitous two-inch-high static soldiers that companies like Marx belched out by the millions, we always called them “army guys” (Actually, being in central Massachusetts as a … Continued

29 Aug 2012

SHINSO: SHINOBI NO MONO Thai press stills

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 1 - Film and TV | 0

More of the amazing hand-tinted, one-of-a-kind press photos from Thai cinemas, this time to the franchise prequel/reboot Shinso Shinobi no mono, sadly Raizo Ichikawa‘s last time under the hood. These individually colored photos are on a different paper stock than … Continued

Raizo Ichikawa, Shinobi no Mono, Thai press kits
17 Aug 2012

Back-to-school shinobi

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 3 - Toys and Merch | 0

More vintage 80s toy crap! These were 5″ solid plastic pencil toppers, made of some truly toxic low-grade junk with paint jobs to match. Awesome! Best/worst thing about these are they’re SOLID and heavy, and there’s no way in hell … Continued

Generic toys
13 Aug 2012

And now, some plugs…

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 7 - Ninja Miscelany | 1

• If you’re a stinky old fart with bad eyes like me then you hate watching stuff on portable devices and tiny screens. Fortunately for us luddites, Ninja: The Mission Force is now available on DVD. • I’m not sure … Continued

kurozukin, Ninja: The Mission Force
8 Aug 2012

More shadowy marketing

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 1 - Film and TV | 0

Here’s a vintage theater flyer sport an ad on the back for the 1979/1980 Eichi Kudo strangeness Kage no Gundan: Hattori Hanzo. I’d have been more convinced to see this film by this flyer image than I would have been by … Continued

Eichi Kudo, Kage No Gundan

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