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Comment by Mike P on October 14, 2013 at 3:48pm

Can't believe Merrci found my old pic of Brick boy!

Man, I'm so nostalgic for all this...You guys are all great! and even two years later it's nice to see who is still around.

Comment by jasoncbolt on August 23, 2011 at 8:18am

Wow what a interesting conversation :) I may just have to build this now, since it was once one of the first. Like BKD said, whats a collection without it!

Comment by 3Eyed Bear on August 23, 2011 at 2:02am

I've once written a piece about the history of papercraft for a book about it to be published in Iran (! yes, I know). Abz helped me out a bit too. If you drop me a mail this week, I'll attach it in the reply. I've written it from my own (longterm and vast) investigation and was hoping for it to be rewritten and rewritten when 'new evidence' would present itself and everyone agrees on it's content. But someone had to begin somewhere, right?   :)

Comment by baykiddead on August 23, 2011 at 12:26am

well, i'll be...

Comment by merrci on August 22, 2011 at 11:55pm

he he, found a pic!

here!

ok,not a academic built...

Comment by Mr. WalkieTalkie on August 22, 2011 at 2:53pm

Wow Im learning so much! Now I understand better about papercraftings history. :)

Comment by merrci on August 22, 2011 at 2:02pm

i think that's an evidence:

most of us pass the most of their time with a pen in the hand, so having a paper sheet becoming 3D and see our characters poping up, then travelling all around the world...! you can't imagine how satisfiing it is to me who can't stand more than 2 minutes in an art expo, in the middle of all those people making bla bla bla and asking always the wrong questions...

here i found real interested people , like a big fresh air breath!

Comment by baykiddead on August 22, 2011 at 1:51pm

isn't amazing that a simple piece of white paper could spark such a great conversation and passion among those who know the paper's potential?

Comment by merrci on August 22, 2011 at 1:46pm

to me, could be interesting to open an history of paper toy discussion.

i'ld really enjoy learning more about the roots of my fresh new "hobby".  :)

Comment by 3Eyed Bear on August 22, 2011 at 1:39pm

Brickboy was the first big boxed-designed-toy. From around the same time (the beginning of Pictoplasma and the vinyl-toy craze) Tanaka, Readymech, and Kenn Munk were very influential. And than Cubeecraft, Speakerdog and Matt. Quite soon it all exploded with the guys from 'Urban Paper', Matt's book.

But that's the Western (urban toy) wave. In Asia home-printer companies like Canon and Lexmark were already giving away paperkits for some time by then. These were more classic and traditional like the kits from the 30s, before plastic killed the paperkit. Keisuka Saka's automata kits were famous.

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