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Huge Gundam Head on Display at New Plastic Model Museum, Visitors Can Try Designing Models Themselves

SHIZUOKA — A new plastic model museum, featuring large Gundam model head parts on a runner, has opened inside the new Bandai Spirits Co. factory in Shizuoka. The runner, measuring about 3.6 meters in ...
Nippon

Shizuoka: A Global Center for Plastic Modeling

Shizuoka is known for its plastic models and other hobby items. Home to manufacturers like Tamiya and Bandai, it boasts a legacy of skilled craftsmanship dating back to feudal times. We visit ...
japannews.yomiuri

Shizuoka, plastic model capital of Japan, promotes local industry with “model city” campaign

Shizuoka has launched a campaign to promote itself as a “model city,” in an effort to use its plastic toy model manufacturing industry for regional revitalization. The city plans to organize art ...
毎日新聞

Bandai unveils high-detail Millennium Falcon plastic model from 'Star Wars'

This photo provided by Bandai Co. shows the "Perfect Grade 1/72 Scale Millennium Falcon" plastic model. "Star Wars" fans will soon get the chance to own a realistic copy of one of the fastest ...
Hagerty

How plastic model cars stoked interest in their real-life peers—and vice versa

Most car enthusiasts older than about eight years old have likely assembled a plastic scale model car kit at one time or another, though the hobby is long past its golden years of the 1960s. It ...