ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

Care Bears Good Luck Be@brick Drops For St. Patricks Day

With the coming release of Loves-a-Lot Bear, Good Luck Bear and Bedtime Bear, I believe this ends the epic and continuous release of Care Bear Be@rbricks that began at the 2008 Medicom Toy Exposition last June. The 2.75-inch keychain figures go for about $16 USD and are listed as limited items on Medicom’s website. There’s [...]

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Care Bears Be@rbricks are Coming

We’ve been tracking these Care Bear Be@rbricks since the 2008 Medicom Toy Exhibition in June. Jason asks, whats next, Rainbow Brite? And indeed, maybe she is. There’s quite a big interest in My Little Pony at the moment…Even though some companies interpret the designer toy scene as a forward moving/no nostalgia movement, from Simpsons to [...]

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Bay Area Collectible Toy Show

This weekend’s Bay Area Collectible Toy Show was touted as the event to attend if you missed SDCC ‘08.  A slight case of wishful thinking perhaps, as this Oakland affair was geared more toward mainstream kids toys and a handful of celebrity guests whose heyday occurred long before the attending children were even conceived. Nonetheless, [...]

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