Super Terrific Japanese Thing: Automatic Electric Gun BOYS
Don’t be too concerned about the title. This isn’t some terrifying yaoi machine, no, no. It’s just a line of highly detailed, authen tic looking submachine gun toys…for kids!
The princely Matt Alt has a number of pics of the faux weapons from the 47th Shizuoka Hobby Show over at his AltJapan blog including the above ad, which does oddly use Caucasian kids instead of Japanese kids to pimp the toys. I can’t tell if that’s racist or not. Whatever, there’s a new top dog in the “things That Will Never Be Imported to America” category.
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