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Bandai

Founded as Bandai-Ya, the spinoff of a textile company, in 1950, Bandai produced tin toys in the 1950s and was renamed Bandai Co. in the 1960s and achieved success with Astro Boy toys in the 1960s. In the 1980s Bandai began producing plastic model kits based on Mobile Suit Gundam and began developing games for the Nintendo Famicom. Facing a decline in sales in the later 1990s, Bandai sought to merge with Sega and later became part of Namco and the restructured Bandai Namco Group.

Here are some of the Bandai toys in my collection...

Year	Name	Description	Photo
1975-1982	Mini Mini Rail	Plastic train set series aimed as a toy alternative to N scale model trains
1982-1992	Machine Robo Series GoBots	Range of transforming vehicle-robot-mech toys that predates Transformers, sold by Tonka in the United States as GoBots and in Europe as Robot Machine
1992	Famicom Datach	"Joint ROM System" for the Nintendo Famicom that included a barcode reader for its own special cartridges to take advantage of

Bandai Thomas the Tank Engine toys

With the success of Thomas the Tank Engine on Japanese television, Bandai began importing and producing their own Thomas the Tank Engine toys in 1991.