Category — Toys

Mathmos, inventors of the legendary Lava lamp, have just launch their first foray into the art toy market with Chuppi – an interactive child’s night light and/or a collectable art toy for adults! Disclaimer – we were kindly sent a Chuppi to check out but we liked it enough to post about it.

You can find out all the basic details on the Chuppi page at the Mathmos site, but we liked the Chuppi for a number of reasons.

The first is that because you can customise it, we could make him/her(?) “ours” as soon as it was out of the box. A bit of stickering never goes amiss! The face feature stickers aren’t too sticky either, so they can be rearranged and of course, taken off so that other stickers can be used.

You get quite a few stickers so we can easily see them being used to change Chuppi’s expression over it’s lifetime – say a couple of years or more? The downside to them is that they go onto a round surface so some of them peel off at the edges.

The next reason we liked Chuppi is that because it’s rechargeable, we can stick it on the charger during the day and then take it off and place where we want (wireless) through the night. The power lasts 6 hours, so it’s generally enough for a night before the morning light peeks over the horizon.
Finally, if we do get bored of Chuppi, we can then bung it into our toddler’s room. The light colour changes are bound to keep her occupied for a bit.

Check out Chuppi on the Mathmos site!

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One of our favourite figure designers, Huck Gee, created the following pieces for a private collector. Combining food and martial arts, the figures depict a sushi chef and a octopus Samurai. The tentacle basket implies a victory for the sushi chef. We wish we could commission excellent pieces like this!

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Fans of Dunny figures might be interested in the just released Dunny Gold Life hyper series from Huck Gee, which features Samurai, Geishas, Ninjas etc. Get them at Kid Robot stores for $9.95 / £7.90 for each blind boxed figure.

More on the Gold Life Dunny Series here…

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These Japanese sandals (ge-ta) are designed with animal foot print shapes underneath allowing prints to be left that are sure to baffle some people. Great for kids at the beach! They come in five foot print types: cat, gecko and monkey are shown below and there are also owl and zaurus types.

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The Mint Toy Museum in Singapore released some tasty posters awhile ago, which reminded us of our own visit to this fascinating retro toy museum. If you haven’t been there and are passing by, check it out!

For more info, check out our post on The Mint Museum of Toys here

See more photos on Flickr

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Hong Kong based Hot Toys have just released full figure images of their new forthcoming 1/6 Bruce Lee figure. It seems that the figure will come in two variations, one in a suit and one in casual clothes, but both sport the same head sculpt capturing the late master’s enigmatic smile. Collectors old and new should watch out for when pre-ordering opens.

More on the Hot Toys website

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We like these paper toys by Sal Azad, which feature Indonesian Myths as their subject matter.

More on SalAzad.com

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A different view of the popular feline Hello Kitty.

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Whilst we’re not massive fans of Pikachu, we still thought this Lego Pikachu was pretty cool. It’s still got the Lego hands!

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Singapore-based artist Anton Tang takes unused plastic figurines and repositions them in Lilliputian set-ups full of humor and pathos, thus reimagining what it means to be human.

We’re loving the charm in Anton’s photos, simple as the concept is. See more here…

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