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Podcast: Toys on Tap
Episode: Ep. 265 Toys on Tap w/ Draculazer: Touring the World, Then Making Monsters
Description: We sit down with Michael, aka Draculazor, to trace a path from childhood weird-toy obsession to becoming a mainstay in the sofubi world. He talks hand-me-down Transformers and Marvel, buying his first Japanese soft vinyl in 2005, and the brutal college house-party flood that forced him to sell almost his entire collection. From printmaking school to touring the world as the drummer for Wild Nothing, Michael breaks down how freelance illustration and drawing toys he couldn’t afford eventually became making toys for real. We dig into Japan’s slow timelines vs faster factories, Five Points, Creature Bazaar/Summer Slime, and...