well, so i have to...?

yes! this is a classic. the toy many point to as the beginning of paper toys as we know them.

I guess you have Merrci. Brickboy is one of our primal godfather toys. This toy launched careers  like that of Castleforte or Kamstra.

i wanted to do the hands correctly [out of respect] and was shocked to find there aren't any pictures of this classic here on NPT, or on the web for that matter, none that i could find anyway...

wow guys, suddenly i feel like a f***ing youngster (that i am :])

@3eyedbear: One of the our primal toys? I know Brickboy is one of the first but what are the other ones? They sound so mysterious!

I found one:

http://www.matthijskamstra.nl/blog/index.php/2006/10/11/urban-paper...

And here's mine:

http://www.nicepapertoys.com/photo/brickbrickboy-1?context=user

I saw yours Meth, love the literal translation. still hard to believe there aren't many pictures of the original Sjors version.

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.

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".  :)

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?

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!

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

he he, found a pic!

here!

ok,not a academic built...

well, i'll be...