Posting a plea costs 30,000 yen ($238) a month. So far, about a third has been made–among them, a locally brewed beer and a reproduction of a kung fu book written by Bruce Lee.
In Takizawa’s case, Engine says it would be too expensive to make the 1/43 scale model he asked for–though it is considering building them to 1/130 scale (about the size of a peanut). Takizawa is undeterred. “Once we establish it’s popular, we’ll come back,” he says.
