In 1967, Takara produced the first generation of the Licca-chan doll, which was 21 centimeters tall and had the last name of Kayama, inspired by the musician Yuzo Kayama and actress Yoshiko Kayama.
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In 1967, Takara produced the first generation of the Licca-chan doll, which was 21 centimeters tall and had the last name of Kayama, inspired by the musician Yuzo Kayama and actress Yoshiko Kayama.
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In 1975, Takara produced the Diaclone and Microman Micro Change toys.
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Takara continued to sell Microman and used it as the basis for the Micronauts toy line.
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Takara invented Battle Beasts, the E-kara karaoke microphone, B-Daman and Beyblade.
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Takara ported some of the SNK Neo Geo based arcade games for 8 and 16-bit consoles.
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In 2003, Takara contributed to the production of the game, Seek-and-Destroy.
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Takara published the 3D computer graphics fighting game series Battle Arena Toshinden, developed by Tamsoft.
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Also that year, Takara purchased a controlling stake in the publicly traded software publisher Atlus.
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Takara-branded product licenses such as Licca-chan, Jinsei Game, The Game of Life and Choro-Q were returned to Takara Tomy's consumer software division.
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Takara has manufactured several unusual gadgets marketed as "life entertainment products".
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In 2005, Takara produced Walkie bits, a colorful, multi-function miniature robotic turtle.
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Takara replaced the mascot with "21st Century Colorful Dakko-Chan", which had enough features to connote the original mascot but divested the traits which brought criticism.
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In deciding upon the merged company's new name, "Takara" was used for its international brand recognition and "Tomy" was used because it was a trusted brand of infant and preschool products in Japan.
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