Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2019 July 24 • Wednesday

While I do have some Godzilla toys and memorabilia, including some rare and valuable items I found in Tokyo fifteen years ago, I realized I would never become a serious collector. There's too much and it's too expensive and what good would it do me to have all these vinyl figures sitting around?

But I love Godzilla and those toys are colorful and lovely.

Which is exactly why I was thrilled to buy a book dedicated to Mark Livolsi's collection of Godzilla toys. It's going up for auction, you see. And I couldn't and wouldn't bid on it. But, wow, it is a fantastic collection and I can afford Peekaboo Gallery's beautiful book dedicated to it: Vinyl Conflict.

That might actually be an image of the poster for the auction. The book looks the same but says The Mark Livolsi Collection on it.

The pages are color coded for the different eras of Godzilla.

There are some movie posters.

But mostly it's just toys, toys toys!

It's really okay just to look at the pictures and not have the actual items. Isn't it?