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All this week, ToyCyte has been having a conversation about blind box toys: Are they a marketing strategy or a fun experience? As designer toys travel from toy company to toy fan, they pass through a middleman: the toy retailer. In this segment of our report, we’ll hear from the proprietors of our favorite toy stores. Toy retailers are an eloquent and gregarious bunch who are also collectors and members of our community. Rotofugi, Ningyoushi, Toy Tokyo, Shoparooni, Red Hot Robot, Lulubell Toy Bodega, Wizard Sleeve Toys and hometown heroes, The Sausalito Ferry Company all gave their two cents (sometimes more) for the story.
Continue reading...Monday, December 15, 2008
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Here’s a bit closer look at the hand-painted sample of Choegal, painted by David Choe. Text courtesy of Denise from Ningyoushi. Upon showing the sample to the factory, their initial reaction was, ‘Thanks but no thanks. We can’t replicate this. It looks too hard.’ So what we had to do was call David Choe and ask [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 10, 2008
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If you’re looking for another way to get a big vinyl Yeti signed by the founders of GAMA-GO and Ningyoushi and Huck Gee’s charity Spike has risen above your means, Ningyoushi is currently hosting two charity auctions. The auctions, which benefit the Make-a-Wish foundation are for the aforementioned signed Yeti and a blank never-before-available Sam [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 9, 2008
We are loving wood toys lately, and David Choe’s Choegal is a great illustration of why. When we first blogged about Choegal, David said, “I gave detailed instructions to the factory on how to replicate my multi-layered style, and looking at this toy, I can’t even tell the difference from the original, I should just [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 2, 2008
We’re stoked to have one of GAMA-GO’s (sold-out) big vinyl Yetis to give to a lucky ToyCyte reader. The Yeti has become an icon of the 8-year old San Francisco company. He’s appeared on everything from Qees, Circus Punks and Uglydolls to salt shakers and heavy metal t-shirts. Produced in collaboration with Ningyoushi in an [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 28, 2008
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GAMA-GO’s Big Vinyl Yeti has arrived early, and to celebrate, they’re launching a special one-week-only presale of the figure this Thursday, October 30th at 11AM PST. By placing a pre-order during this seven day period you will be guaranteed a Yeti figure and you will also receive a made-for-presale-only Yeti Ice Cave tee printed on [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 2, 2008
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Join GAMA-GO and Ningyoushi in an Oktoberfest celebration with free beer and a special edition Deathbot in Lederhosen. Oktoberfest is a sixteen-day festival held each year in Munich, Bavaria, Germany during late September (and running to early October). It is one of the most famous events in the city and the world’s largest fair, with [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 25, 2008
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Hooray! Fans 1. Flippers 0. I’d had my trigger-finger near the Buy It Now auctions of a couple Hong Kong flippers on the Bay right after Michael Lau’s CSBOOTH15 ended. I’m not complaining about my job one bit, but it can be extremely difficult to pen post after post of praise and pics on a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 2, 2008
The SDCC ‘08 news keeps coming, and this time it’s two from Gama-Go. First up, the eagerly-awaited 2.5-inch Gama-Go mascot x Toy2r Yeti Qee. Maybe it’s because he’s a Yeti, but somehow he seems bigger than a 2.5-inch Qee. You can see a sample of the Yeti at the Diamond Booth at SDCC ‘08. [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 6, 2008
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San Francisco’s Upper Playground, Ningyoushi and Double Punch have collaborated with illustrator N8 Van Dyke on Payday, a simian stick-up artist. The 5.5″ figure comes with a glock, a bag of loot, sneakers and a walrus mask (in honor of Upper Playground’s mascot). N8’s work has appeared in diverse forms from the pages of Heavy [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 30, 2008
OK so the title and subject of this post rival the title of this post and the content of this post for keeping my ego as a legitimate journalist in check. That said, props to Jeremy Fish for putting out a truly new platform (adult) toy: The Barry The Beaver vibrator. This unique collaboration [...]
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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