ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

If you find yourself wishing that you lived in a fictionalized Victorian era, reprogramming your iPod to run on coal, or giving bronze accents to your autogyro, you might be a steampunk.

1. Boids from 2petalrose – $18. If strange, faceless robot birds are your thing, the assemble-able Boids are for you.
2. Cris Rose’s Runcibles – $50 to $250. Hand-cast, hand-painted robots are available intermittently from Cris Rose, with a definite glass-and-bronze sensibility.
3. Steamboy Gashapon – $6 each. Blind-boxed, conveniently small, and depicting 6 different steampunk designs.
4. Doktor A’s Stephan Le Podd – $80. Is Mr. Le Podd a robot? Is he armored for some undersea battle? Either way, he’s riveted and awesome.
5. Professor Babcock Ensemble from Gentleman’s Emporium – $600. A true steampunk dresses as the very definition of un-punk. The complete, classy outfits at Gentleman’s Emporium will surely have something for everyone, in varying degrees of ‘dandy’.
6. El by Kaiyodo – $20. An original character by Yatake Yoshinori, measuring 8″ tall and made of some kind of future-plastic.
7. Dr. Grordbort’s Goliathon 83 – $700. If you’re gonna get a raygun, you need to take it seriously. How else are you going to battle hordes of Ether-wraiths? Dr. Grordbort has the (ultra high-end) answer.