Saturday 22 December 2012

Bandai SD Dechonpa Moomins in Love

Another of the types of watch I've ended up collecting (after getting a 'critical mass' that made me want to get more...) are the Dechonpa watch range by Bandai.
The Dechonpa range had two types of watch that I've found, the SD range, and the Anime watch range (which I'm yet to blog). The SD range features many different TV and film characters in a Super Deformed version. The range was started in the 80s, and finished in 1994.

This particular model came out in 1990 and features characters from the Moomins.

The Moomins were the central characters created by Tove Jansson in a series of books and a comic strip which started in 1945. The stories follow the lives of the trolls and their community in Moominvalley. In 1990, an animated version was released by TV Tokyo (the second series after a 1970s British stop-motion series), and this watch corresponds to that series.

The watch features two of the Moomins, Moomin (on the right), and his girlfriend Snork Maiden (on the left). When the bottom button is pressed, the Moomins part, and another character, Little My, is revealed (looking angry at the two Moomins). The characters also have eyes that change from open to closed (and smiling) when the display is revealed.

The watch part is basic with time, date, and seconds displays on the 4 digit LCD display. The buttons controlling the display and setting the time and date are on the back of the watch.

It's back has some text in Japanese,  'Copyright 1990 M B T T' , and 'Bandai 1990 Japan'.

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