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For Donkey Kong Country's 30th anniversary last year, I recreated the game's intro cinematic in 3D using scans of vintage Donkey Kong Country 1 toys from Japan, called keshi. The first half of the video is a beat-for-beat remake of the original intro, while the second half of the video is a...

Here is a diorama scene I assembled using 3D scans I created and painted from actual vintage Super Mario Bros. 2 "keshi gomu" rubber toys from Japan. These were released by Bandai in 1993 (remember, they got our version of SMB2 much later, under the title of "Super Mario USA"). I also...

Here is a diorama scene I assembled using 3D scans I created and painted from actual vinatge Super Mario Bros. 3 "keshi gomu" rubber toys from Japan. You can see a video of this diorama up on my KeshiCorner twitter account here: https://x.com/KeshiCorner/status/1770099403161768269 You can...

Mysterious Mario Bros. (怪奇マリオブラザーズ) was an unofficial line of Mario toys depicting creepy and ghoulish versions of beloved Super Mario Bros. characters: These toys, created (apparently without permission) by veteran gachapon toy company Konno Sangyo, were direct parodies of the official Super...

I've created a little diorama using 3D scans I produced of Super Mario World toys that were released only in Japan in 1991. These toys came in gachapon machine capsules as unpainted "keshi" figures, a type of collectible semi-firm rubber figure that was popular in the 1980s and 1990s. These...