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22 August 2016 New Baby Byrons Head Up VAG 8 OK, I need all five of these. The flagship entry of Medicom's VAG (Vinyl Artist Gacha) Series 8 is an air brushed version of Shoko Nakazawa's adorable Baby Byron! Gold, blue, green, pink, and... Read more	11 August 2016 Deadpool Nendoroid Forgot His Bullets In an alternate reality, Deadpool is a chibi manga character. Good Smile Company have just announced that he'll be joining Captain America and Iron Man as part of their collaboration with Marvel.... Read more	03 August 2016 Mechatro WeGo x Evangelion We're going to be waiting for the finale to the Evangelion movie series for a while. So to pass the time, we might as well get some merch. Gainax are teaming up with 1000toys to... Read more	01 August 2016 Tiny Taito Viewlix Arcade Cabinet Model Remember that 1/12 scale SEGA Astro City? Well now it can have a friend! Taito and Hobby Wave... Read more	27 July 2016 Elmo & Cookie Monster 400% Be@rbricks Incoming One of the highlights from the recently released Be@rbrick Series 32 was Medicom's take on Elmo, one of the most popular characters from Sesame Street. Medicom must agree, because... Read more	06 July 2016 P.P.Pudding Ultraman P.P.Pudding have just revealed some images of a super cute figure inspired by Ultraman. From the photos, it look like the helmet slides up to reveal a human face. I tried using Twitter's... Read more	28 June 2016 INSTINCTOY Tease New Mini Liquid Series INSTINCTOY have just revealed the newest series of their Mini Liquid gachapon series. Typically, these cute globs have a loop attached at the top so you can hang them from your zippers or mobile... Read more	21 June 2016 T9G x Instinctoy Re-Ret Prototype Revealed We've seen the 3D renders of T9G's collaboration with Instinctoy, but now we're getting a glimpse of it in real life. Ditching the leopard print for a matte black body and glossy black accents, I... Read more
15 August 2016 "The Osamu Tezuka Story" Winner Announced! Congrats to @Hinotori21 for winning The Osamu Tezuka Story from Clutter Magazine and Stone Bridge Press! Enjoy your biography of the manga master and creator of Astro Boy.... Read more	10 August 2016 Mechatro x Hatsune Miku at Tenacious Toys It's not easy to find Mechatro WeGo figures in the US. The official store only has a few items for sale and anything at Big Bad Toy Store sells out quickly. So Western fans assumed they'd be out... Read more	03 August 2016 Metal Gear x Godzilla x Evangelion by Yoji Shinkawa Three iconic pieces of Japanese pop culture unite to form this illustration by Yoji Shinkawa. You might not recognize the name, but you've seen his work. Shinkawa has served as the mechanical... Read more	29 July 2016 Three New R@bbricks Incoming Such shiny! Medicom are prepping three new R@bbrick colorways, all in chrome. Black and silver chrome 100% R@bbricks will be joined by a 400% blue chrome R@bbrick next month. I believe this will... Read more	13 July 2016 Konatsu x UAMOU Exhibition in August The stars are aligning in August; two of my favorite Japanese artists are sharing an exhibition! Konatsu and UAMOU will be holding "Escape from Earth" from August 11 through August 14 at Studio... Read more	01 July 2016 Play the Uamou Invasion Game! Remember Studio Uamou's contribution to the yearly Famicase exhibition? Well now you can play Uamou Invasion and you don't even need a Famicom console. A fan has created a browser-based... Read more	27 June 2016 Teddy Uamou Rereleased for 2016 It doesn't happen often, but sometimes between the time I fall asleep and wake up, something has been announced in Japan, has launched, and has already sold out. That was the case early this... Read more	13 June 2016 Hedgehog Cup Clinger Gachapon Cups are so utilitarian. But you can spice things up with a cup clinger, and the best cup clingers take the shape of hedgehogs. These guys have just hit stores that house gachapon machines and run... Read more
15 August 2016 Soul of Chogokin Dauzyujin (AKA Megazord) Whether we knew it at the time or not, Might Morphin' Power Rangers, was most kids' introduction to the tokusatsu television genre pioneered by Japan. In each episode, the heroes... Read more	08 August 2016 "16 Bit Models" Show in Akihabara Toys based on video games were surprisingly hard to come by in the '80s and '90s. So my jaw would have dropped as a kid if I saw photo of last week's "16 Bit Models" show in Akihabara. The event... Read more	02 August 2016 Shaved Ice Uamou & Friends Studio Uamou are bringing back their Kakigōri series for the summer. Transparent paint and clear stuffing create the mouth-watering look of shaved ice, and this time a lime green colorway is... Read more	27 July 2016 "Discovery" Daft Punk Medicom Real Action Heroes Announced Medicom are adding a new pair of figures to their high end Real Action Heroes line in the form of French electronic music duo Daft Punk. These ones are stylized after the band's costumes from... Read more	07 July 2016 Studio Ghibli 30th Anniversary Retrospective I'm always wanting to go to Japan, but it's times like these that I really want to hop on a plane and touch down in the future 13 hours later. Studio Ghibli are hosting a 30... Read more	28 June 2016 Gold Lamé Microbus by Aya Kakeda I wish the buses I ride looked like this. Or Catbus. The newest colorway of Aya Kakeda's Microbus is cast in eye-popping gold lamé sofubi with the colorway titled "Medetai Island". While I loved... Read more	23 June 2016 BAPE x Kamen Rider Collection It's henshin-a-go-go over at BAPE! The streetwear brand has teamed up with Toei to design a collection of apparel celebrating the 45th anniversary of Kamen Rider. The tokusatsu... Read more	31 May 2016 Journey to the West Sofubi by Angel Abby x P.P.Pudding Hong Kong shop Angel Abby and Japanese artist P.P.Pudding are working together to create super cute characters based on the classic Chinese story Journey to the West. Even those not... Read more