ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

Alice Cherry Blossom 4th Edition

With the 4th edition of Alice Cherry Blossom, The Cherry Blossom Babies, there will be not only one, but two babies: male (Ian) and female (Hope). If you collect them, you might like to know that these are the siblings of Alice and Billie. (Why am I suddenly remembering 80s TV commercials for The Sylvanian [...]

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Plastics Made From Pig Urine

Courtesy of Crave: Denmark-based Agroplast wants to transform pig urine into plastic dinnerware and household items. The company has essentially devised a way to better commercialize urea, a compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen, found in urine. Transforming farm waste into plastic precursors is potentially attractive over other bioplastic ideas because pig urine effectively [...]

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Oinking Its Way Into The Designer Toy Market

Black Oink is a small design house from Singapore that has worked with such heavyweights as Sony, IBM and HP. All work and no play makes designer Simon Kang a dull boy though, and thus he’s set his sights on releasing Black Oink’s first designer toy: BO9, their pig mascot. Everything, from conceptualization to final [...]

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Charles Stephan Puts the Sty Back in Style

Holland’s renowned pig artist, Charles Stephan, Korea’s high-end, ball-jointed Elfdoll and China’s platform proprietors, Toy2r, are doing a collab of international implications with the forthcoming line of Alice Cherry Blossom Qees. “Global Alice” will drop in a variety of skin tones, a normal Qee body and a specially designed pig’s head. Stay tuned for availability. Related [...]

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