Idolos en carton. Trading Card's & Album's
Topic: Toy Museum, Trading Cards

Only catalogue of Trading Card 's & Album's from 1900
Topic: Toy Museum, Trading Cards
Hace un tiempo presentamos el fabuloso libro sobre figuritas de futbol que se titulo "Malditas Dificiles".

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Those darn hard ones, Malditas Dificiles


Ahora nuestros autores colegas y amigos, Rafael Bitran y Francisco Chiappini nos deleitan con una nueva propuesta: Idolos en carton.

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Idolos en carton. Trading Card's & Album's


Esta vez la tematica del libro es tanto mas amplia ya que apunta no a un tipo de figurita en particular sino a las fabulosas figuritas que hicieron historia y marcaron un hito en la vida de muchos jovencitos argentinos.

La tematica central que recorre las apasionantes paginas de este nuevo producto editorial esta dedicada a reconocer la importancia historica y estetica de una enorme variedad de figuritas dedicadas a los personajes del cine y la TV que apasionaron a millones de ninos desde 1920 a 1980.

A lo largo de las mas de 120 paginas de gran calidad y a brillantes colores los idolos nacionales, los hitos historicos de la infancia argentina recobran vida y magia acompanados de breves pero importantes comentarios: redonditas, cuadradas, chapitas de carton o con sticker, desde el amado del Capitan Piluso con su infaltable amigo y companero Coquito pasando por Martin Karadagian y sus titanes, Hijitus, el Zorro, Tarzan, el Increible Hulk, Batman y Robin, King Kong, Kung Fu, la Pantera Rosa, y muchisimos mas personajes apasionantes.



Para mas informacion contactese directamente con nosotros: For more information :Email: The Buenos Aires Toy Museum,Bob Frassinetti. Press here to go to the Toy Museum :The Buenos Aires
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Interested in buying antiques and collectibles from Buenos Aires or for that matter any other item that I have mentioned in any article you have found on this my web site, you can buy Toys from my museum and threw eBay, threw the Toy Museum on eBay press here; Toy Museum on eBay and threw The Buenos Aires ArtDealer, press here; Art Dealer on eBay From Art to Antiques. Or contact me direct. For more information :Email Bob Frassinetti. Press here to go to The Buenos Aires Art Dealer is a webzine magazine on Art, Antiques & Collectibles made or found in Argentina. The Buenos Aires ArtDealer, Argentina.

Bob Frassinetti. Copyright 2005. Roberto Dario Frassinetti. Argentina.

Football Soccer trading cards made in Argentina
Topic: Toy Museum, Trading Cards
"Those darn hard ones" A history of the Argentinean football trading cards
by Rafael Bitran & Francisco Chiappini.

Soccer, football, has been one of the world?s greatest passions throughout our recent history. Young and old, boys and girls take part of this worldwide crowd that enjoys not only to perform and play football but to attend matches, watch them on TV, listen to them on the radio and talk about them afterwards.

Being such deep part of our everyday life we find out that football?s history goes parallel to ours. At least once in our life we played ball, went to the stadium to cheer for our team, burst into the happiest cheer when our team scored that special goal and into tears when we lost against our classic enemy.

Football theme trading cards are like historic snap shots on the best moments of the history of Football. The?those darn hard ones to find- is not just a book on the history of Argentine trading cards se particular trading cards are an amazing record that by means of images portray outstanding moments, players, teams, soccer stadiums, moments of joy and other bitter ones. Apart this record-like feature, trading cards are one of the very first collecting activity of any child.

Malditas Dificiles on football, but a treasure book on a key aspect of the Argentine popular history. The authors are a couple of professional historians and sociologists who have been true to one of their hobbies and have lifted it into the world of popular-folk history. Featuring a detailed research work of each collection ever made, working on the available items and information to provide the fan and collector a complete catalog like book on Argentine Football trading cards, this book is a great stepping stone in the world of collectibles like trading cards made in Argentina

"Initially, the collecting of trading cards or as they are called in Spanish "figuritas". trading cards had been, almost exclusively, a girly entertainment. But from the beginning of last century, it has become a “genderless” hobby. Both, boys and girls, young and old, sought to fill their collection in order to get the prizes –either a ball or a doll-....... "

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Those darn hard ones, Malditas Dificiles
Book in Spanish, but for our English reader it goes with a transaltion.



"MALDITAS DIFICILES"
...una historia de las figuritas de futbol en la Argentina...
Rafael Bitran y Francisco Chiappini.


Pasion de multitudes, el fotbol siempre ha sido el punto de encuentro para chicos y grandes, donde lo unico que los distingue son las distinciones propias de este juego que ya ha dejado de ser un deporte mas, para convertirse en simplemente fotbol. Su historia nos atravieza. Todos alguna vez jugamos a la pelota, fuimos a la cancha, gritamos un gol hasta quedarnos afonicos, sonreimos hasta el cansancio cuando ganamos, y lloramos desconsoladamente cuando no nos fue tan bien. Las figuritas de f?tbol, desde siempre, intentaron conservar por medio de la im?gen esos momentos, esos jugadores, esos equipos, canchas y estadios que tantas alegrias y dolores nos dieron. "Malditas dificiles" es un recorrido por la historia de las figuritas de fobol hechas en la argentina, y mas, es tambien un tesoro historico, ya que recupera parte de nuestra historia popular... Sus autores son faniticos y profesionales que pusieron manos a la obra para recuperar este pedacito de historia. Es para nosotros los lectores, los fanaticos del fotbol, los coleccionistas, aqui podemos encontrar todo lo que siempre quisimos saber y las malditas dificiles que queremos encontrar y tanto trabajo nos cuesta... Una guia y catalogo de todas las figuritas, con datos ineditos, hermosas descripciones y excelentes fotos de todo lo que nuestros amigos encontraron sobre el tema.



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en sus versiones Espanol e una traducion libre al Ingles que hemos hecho:For more information :Email," TENES QUE HACER CLICK AQU" The Buenos Aires Toy Museum,Bob Frassinetti. Press here to go to the Toy Museum :The Buenos Aires
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Bob Frassinetti. Copyright 2005. Roberto Dario Frassinetti.

Los Increibles, The Incredibles and in Argentina!
Topic: Toy Museum, Trading Cards
The Incredibles in Argentina!



Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studio's box office success arrived to Argentina bringing not only a super hit, but also all sorts of merchandise from all over the world and even a broad line made locally here in Argentina. From chewing gum to Kinder chocolate surprise eggs, from T shirts to toys, board games, trading cards, stickers, sweatshirts… you name it, it’s been done and Argentina has it!

The Incredibles in all shapes and styles have expanded to all areas of the young market.

Such is the success of this animated film that almost immediately together with the official merchandise, all sorts of knocks off have appeared in the local market. A very common phenomenon in these countries with a variety of wealth, setting the lower income providers with all sorts of adaptations and copies… The reason to the amazing success among kids and grownups in our country lies of the fact that the story is very much appealing. The idea of a great lost fame is the key factor to this anthropologic event… Argentina recovers from a terrible crisis; hence, the idea of returning to a lost glory goes deep into our sense of being and the perspectives in the near future…

Even more, for The Incredibles fan who wants more, the Spanish doubled version of the movie was recorded in Argentine Spanish featuring some of the finest local artists. Favio Posca (Edna E Mode), Juana Molina (Helen Parr/Elastigirl), Ruben Rada (Frozono), Matias Martin (Syndrome), Carolina Peleritti (Mirage), Florencia Otero, (Violet) and Sebastian Llapur (Mr. Robert Incredible Parr).

This is part of a new strategy held by Disney and Pixtar in which due to the fact that there are several types of Spanish spoken in different Latin American regions, the jokes, slangish talk and specific language styles are now being taken in consideration. For the Northern Latin American region including Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador) are being doubled in Mexico; for the southern area of Latin America (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Paraguay) are being doubled in Argentina.


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The Incredibles in Argentina!


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On the roof of my new office I have a tangerine tree.

On my terrace I have a tangerine tree.... Creme tangerine and montelimart A ginger sling with a pineapple heart
A coffee dessert--yes you know it's good news.
The Beatles



Buenos Aires is a beautiful city. Huge, filled with culture and emotions. A gorgeous architecture blend makes of this South American capital the perfect blend between Latin feel and European style and glamour. The city runs along the banks of the River Plate, one of the widest rivers in the world that separates Argentina from Uruguay. From the hip and over the top downtown BA to the sophisticated northern area suburbs, the River Plate accompanies.

And among the many virtues to this city, we can definitely point out its magnificent weather. All year long, sunny bright blue skies accompany the warm and cold days. This is a beautiful input, no doubt about it.

Our offices are located in one of the prettiest suburban areas, in San Isidro. And one of the highest points to this new location of ours is the beautiful terrace. Quiet, sun, sweet breezes, and my own organic garden make of this open terrace the perfect getaway from work. I deeply believe that combining intellectual and handwork is the best pair to be productive and inventive to the top.

I even grow my own tangerines, sweet and juicy! Hmmm? Just the extra bit of nature bond I needed before coming back to work and keep on sharing the best of Argentina?s Art, culture and history with you all.

Basuritas, Garbage Pail Kids
Topic: Toy Museum, Trading Cards
Basuritas- Garbage Pail Kids trading cards made in Argentina.





Garbage Pail Kids trading cards are famous all around the globe.

Basuritas- Garbage Pail Kids trading cards made in Argentina.





Grabage Pail Kids trading cards are famous all around the globe.

The story on this outstanding art shaped into trading cards begins earlier than most would think. Around the late years of 1960s when the American firm Topps began to develop the wacky packages, these were clever and sharp satiric images on the hottest massed consumed products in the States. In 1985 the first GPK series is issued. John Pound was the mind behind the parody of the traditional and lovely girl dolls Cabbage Patch Kids. His outstanding whit was the stepping stone for what would become a world wide movement of satiric intelligent word games.

This American designer genius is worshiped and beloved, for his creations are an outstanding acid humor version. Production was overwhelming prolific; from 1986 to 1989 Topps developed 15 collections featuring 622 trading cards, plus a latter B series? Overall they designed around 1200 witty and wacky trading cards. The success was undutiful. This uprising of success came to a harsh end when Cabbage Patch Kids? company sued Topps. From the 10th collection onwards alterations had to be done to the original designs for they had lost the lawsuit, and the golden years of GPK were now part of the past.

However this wouldn?t be a dead end to GPK in spite of the fact that they weren?t to be produced again in the States.

Inspired in the American version many countries have developed their own GPK series. Among the most famous ones are the Argentine version, which not only combines funny and wicked images but also words games with the first and last name. All the same the Argentinean designers have added some new motives and series. The first ones to introduce GPK were the executives of Stani ?a candy company from Argentina- . First Argentine GPK were to be produced by Aladin and soon Ultrafigus a pioneer within the world of Argentine trading cards would take over the production. From the second series onwards Ultrafigus was the company in charge of the local GPK. The Spanish adaptation of the brand name was inspired in the American GPK: Basuritas ?local translation for the garbage ones. The first series was released in the late days of 1989. During those days there were many re-releases. Also during the first years of the 1990s another Argentinean company located in the north west of the country came up with the idea of Basuritas del cuerpo ?featuring several alterations within the original GPK idea focusing on the exaltation of specific body parts. The early 90s welcomed us to a new and weird GPK South American version: Basuritas & Monsters which featured the early models altered and with new and interesting inputs first designed in Chile and then brought to Argentina, were it was adapted and altered to fit the local idiosyncrasy.

The evolution of these trading ?collectibles has been impressive from every perspective, though there were some variations and alterations, once the designers returned to the original pattern the latest Basuritas 2 re release both blue and green packets and the less known, but equally interesting Basuritas 3 released early in 2004 had impacted considerably in all fans and collectors.

For the admiration and interest raised by all these fabulous characters, the Buenos Aires Museum?s latest input to the collectibles world has been terrific. Scale handcrafted sculptures of each and every one of the Basuritas characters are the obvious and necessary step in the world of GPK collectibles. Their quality and uniqueness, for each sculpture is specially crafted and there are no castings or serial models, it?s an artwork based on an other piece of art which is the trading card design.



The world of GPK is growing increasingly. It couldn?t be either way when the subject of matter is so interesting and stimulating for the eyes and the intellect!

Such is the impact of these characters created combing an interesting aesthetic approach together with an intelligent blend of art and wit, we began to wonder about the creative process behind the image, the way designers and creative teams came up with the names and jokes. After reading this interesting insight, we at the Toy Museum began to imagine what kind of special names and images we could come up with. In Spanish many of the names had political connotations, for example Fortunato Mado (To- Mado is drunk in Spanish and it was a reference to a dictator who was president in 1981-82 who?s name was Leopoldo Galtieri), or some other not political such as Eva Gancia (Va-Gancia means vagrancy), Hector Tilla (Tor-Tilla, Spanish for omelet), Roberto K Bustost (To-K- Bustos is Spanish for touching breasts, sort of a pervert?)? These are just some of the characters we?ve created so far.

In an interview published in Argentina to the latest Basuritas designer David, he was asked upon this process. The firs thing he stated was that he wanted to alter the least the original images, so it was crucial to come up with locally inspired names that had much to do with our South American, Argentinean and Latino culture. There are several music tributes such as Suzy Q ?tribute to Creedence- or Luz Velito ?the candle man- is a tribute to a very popular Argentinean rock band the Redonditos de Ricota.



It?s important to state that Argentina wasn?t the only country that lovingly embraced this art. Israel, Germany, France, Italy, New Zealand, Australia, Great Britain, Japan and Palestine are some of the countries who had developed their own GPK tradition and series? It wouldn?t be either way, for it?s not easy to find such an impressive and intelligent work of art and cleverness turn into a mass hobby.

If you are interested in seeing these sculptures and if you would like to buy any of them please feel free to email me at; Email Bob Frassinetti. And see them here:The Buenos Aires Toy Museum GPK;Basuritas Web Page.







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