Popy

Popy (ポピー）was a Japanese toy manufacturer of the 1970s and early 1980s. The company was owned by Bandai. It was founded in 1971, and merged back into the parent company in 1983. The company is best known for its ground-breaking 超合金 ("Chogokin," literally “Super Alloy”) robot figures.

History

Popy was formed by Bandai in July 1971 to distribute products intended for candy shops and other retail outlets outside of the usual toy stores. Before long, the company began to licence characters and vehicles from popular live action (Tokusatsu), Anime and Manga series. Its first major success in this vein was a child-sized version of the "Henshin Belt" worn by the hero of the Kamen Rider television series. Although other companies sold similar products, only Popy's incorporated a light-up mechanism, making it a smash success in spite of its then-high retail price of 1500 yen. (It would eventually go on to sell some 3.8 million units.) In the wake of the success of the "Henshin Belt," Popy introduced a palm-sized, diecast metal version of the bike ridden by the show's title character. It proved a major success as well and paved the way for a massive wave of vinyl and diecast metal renditions of characters from the Japanese kids' shows that dominated the Japanese toy market for more than a decade. Other notable successes included the Jumbo Machinder series and the Chogokin series of diecast metal robot toys, most notably that of Super Robot characters such as Mazinger Z.

Sadika Parvin Popy

Sadika Parvin Popy (সাদিকা পারভিন পপি) commonly known as Popy is a Bangladeshi movie actress and model who has performed in numerous Bangladeshi films. She was born and brought up in Khulna city. She has won three national film awards for Best Actress.

Acting life

Popy debuted in Amar Ghor Amar Behesht, a movie directed by Shohanur Rahman Shohan, released in 1997.Shakil Khan was the actor with her in that movie. Although Popy performed in the movie Kooli directed by Montazur Rahman Akbar before she acted in Amar ghor amar behesht, but the movie was delayed to be released and it was ultimately released in 1997. Omor Sani acted with Poppy in the movie Kooli. Film was blockbuster, film budget 1.2 crore and its was business around 7 crore in box office. In that period Poppy acted Akbar next film Ke amar baba with the hero Manna; the movie was super hit at box office, the she was continuously acted four film of Montazur Rahman Akbar all of them commercial success.

Afterwards Popy became hugely popular through her performance in the movie Lal Badsha produced by Manna and she acted in movies one by one after that. Apart from Shakil Khan, Omor Sani and Manna – Popy acted with Riaz, Ferdous, Bapparaz, Ameen Khan, Shakib Khan, Emon, Amit Hasan and Rubel.