Category — Toys

This figure collection room and owner/cosplayer must be the best looking combination yet! Alodia, who is from the Philippines, is a cosplayer, artist and figure collector, who submitted photos of her room to for a forthcoming book Otacool.

You can see more on her Deviant website or check out a few more photos on DannyChoo.com.

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Play Chess the Mario way with the Super Mario Chess Set. I think you’ve got to be a hardcore fan to tell the difference between the two sides.

Via TokyoMango

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A previous post about the truckers of Japan show that they colour their vehicles with beautifully painted landscapes and details, whilst at night, their fluorescent handiwork shines through with bold and colourful light displays.

Labeled Decotora, short for decorated trucks, we came across radio controlled scale models of a couple of designs in Hong Kong’s City Super stores. Not sure if they’re sold anywhere else in or outside Hong Kong.

www.citysuper.com

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Fans of retro arcade Ninja Gaiden can get busy with their scissors to create this awesome 8-bit diorama. A pdf file can be downloaded for you to print your own sheets to make this papercraft model.

Download the Ninja Gaiden PDF here

Read more on Offworld

Via The Awesomer

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Ashley Buerkett’s Mario World Board Game is meant to be built yourself, but as a paper city designed as board game, it takes a different angle on the Italian plumber. It comes complete with a plexi-glass container along with full DIY instructions.

See more on Ashley’s website

Via The Awesomer

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Fans of The Godfather films and designer toys will love this new figure by coveted Hong Kong figure artist Michael Lau. The Godfather figure is the first product from MINDstyle’s Godfather licensing deal with Paramount.

This figure will be released at the “Family Tradition” art exhibition on Sunday, July 19th @ De La Barracuda in Hollywood.

Read more on Vinyl Pulse

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As remote controlled toys go, this is as clunky as they get, but its ok cause its a Mecha Godzilla! Watch the clip below to see Japanese toymaker Bandai’s creation get put through its paces.

The twenty inch Godzilla comes with a host of flashing lights, and moveable parts, as well as a robotic walk.

Read more on Ubergizmo

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McDonalds in Hong Kong have a new promotion out for Hello Kitty fans. It’s a 35th Anniversary project called Kitty Lab and involves six little Hello Kitty soft toys to collect.

They can be bought for HK$20 each with any food purchase or, as my girlfriend has done, the whole lot can be bought for HK$188. She got a free Hello Kitty bag which looks like her head, and some cards.

The six Hello Kitty characters are the Original, Baby, Strawberry, Devil, Pirate and Dr.Kitty.

There is a dedicated website at KittyLab.com but at this moment, it’s not live. Kitty fans, keep an eye out for it!

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Tikka Ng has created the Hug Hug SoHa figure which is one of two key characters in his first solo exhibition “Journey to the East ” (now finished unfortunately. (SoHa: The way people call babies in ancient Chinese society.)

Journey to the East Exhibition

The concept of the title of this exhibition, “Journey to the East“, comes from the well-known Chinese novel “Journey to the West“. This exhibition is to show the unique oriental style of Chinese art, also to explore and spread Chinese culture, in a positive, optimistic and colorful way.

This is the first solo exhibition of TikKa, which marks the changing of his own style. The exhibition solely presents in hand drawings instead of computer graphics, and on oriental style instead of the prior western style, which is very different from his previous works.

The SoHa figure is limited to 50 and comes with a wooden box. Made of polystone, it costs $90USD and is sized at approximately 21 cm H X 17.5 cm W x 11.5 cm D.

Tikka Ng was born in Hong Kong and explores Chinese folk tales and Myth. Chinese motifs and elements are reconstructed, injecting new imagination into familiar tales.

www.tik-ka.com
www.alivenotdead.com/tik_ka

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Even I might be tempted by this fantastic retail utopia for Barbie dolls opened recently in Shanghai!

New York-based Slade Architecture designed this first ever Barbie Flagship for Mattel. It’s a massive 35,000 square foot store holding the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of Barbie dolls and licensed Barbie products, as well as a range of services and activities for Barbie fans and their families.

Read more on the Arch Daily

Via LostAtEMinor

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