I have fun & exciting news - everyone reading this post gets access to an exclusive sale for Tokidoki Blog readers at The Giant Peach! All of their tokidoki items are 20% off now through January 31st when you use coupon code TDBLOG at checkout. This code may not be reposted elsewhere. Enjoy! 
Readers Audrey and Ryane both wrote to let me know that tokidoki.it added new photos to their tokidoki for Hello Kitty collaboration page. Check the pictures out, they give us a better look at the super-cute plush toys and the gold-trimmed bags that are coming soon. The expected release date is March 2008 in Japan, and hopefully April 2008 in the USA.
Panik’s Toy Box just let me know that they got their second shipment of Cactus Pups in, and are selling more full opened sets of all 7 pups. They are also selling some individual opened pups if you just need some specific ones to complete your collection.
I just spotted the tokidoki LP record all-over print hoodie that Simone has been seen wearing lately on eBay! The seller is located in Italy and the print, tags and details all look legit, so I am sure it is real… ah, the temptation!
Trendy Stars just posted their shipment of tokidoki spring 2008 t-shirts. There are a few men’s versions of designs that have been released for women in the batch, one of which features Adios & Ciao Ciao. There are also some designs that are brand new (and extremely cute!), like these:
I love the little skull pizza that is on the back of the second shirt - I added an image of it as an inset.
Reader Heather just wrote to let me know that she discovered that Meomi has a website called meomi cloud house. It is seriously one of the coolest, cutest websites ever. AND - they are selling 2″ and 8″ Powder Cat Meomi for LeSportsac qees (the ones that came attached to some of the first season tokidoki bags), for $15 and $80 respectively! There are also some other really cute toys for sale in their online store, plus free downloads and animations. I just downloaded the January 2008 desktop.
Reader Melanie sent in some photos of some rare European tokidoki bags that she has in her collection. Melanie says that she has been a fan of tokidoki designs since 2002(!) when she discovered a tokidoki shirt on threadless.com. Then she was in Amsterdam the winter of 2004 and spotted a silver tokidoki Sushi bag and had to have it. Check it out:
Isn’t it adorable?! I want one!
While in Amsterdam, Melanie also saw a pink tokidoki bag but didn’t get it, which she ended up regretting later. So once she was back in the USA, she searched for the pink bag online and found it on a German website listed as “Pink Gothic Lolita Bag.” In the summer of 2005, she finally found the pink tokidoki bags on eBay. Here is her whole family of rare bags:
Panik’s Toy Box is having a 2-day sale starting today and ending at midnight EST January 18, 2008.
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In response to our requests for more help with picking the right tokidoki clothing sizes when shopping online, Trendy Stars just added sizing charts for each of the new Spring 2008 tokidoki clothing items (under “Product Description” when you click on each item). Note that the all-over print t-shirt runs larger than all of the other t-shirts from this season - from the sound of it, the rest of the t-shirts this season are all sized the same as last season. That might be a relief to some of you. I just ordered the stripey tie-front top, the tunic, and the Ciao Ciao t-shirt - and I’m sure that I ordered the correct sizes now, yaaaaay.
Trendy Stars just added their shipment of Spring 2008 clothing, including the two remaining items from the collection that I mentioned were still to come. Both are so cute, I think I need to ammend my wishlist!
Trendy Stars also has the raincoats in S, M, L, and XL - so if you want one, hurry and get one, because they received very limited quantities. Their photos of the dresses show a model wearing leggings, so they are helpful in giving us a better idea of the length and what it would look like on:
I think I might need to eat my words about not liking pink… this season of tokidoki is winning me over!
I just received my package from The Giant Peach containing the Adios & Ciao Ciao all-over print t-shirt, hoodie, and raincoat, and I love it all! The sizing is quite different from the holiday 2007 clothing though. My spring 2008 t-shirt is 2 inches longer than my brown holiday 2007 t-shirt with Sandy on the swing, even though both tees are the same size. In contrast, the spring 2008 hoodie that I got is 2 inches shorter than my tan holiday 2007 hoodie with Sandy on the swing. It is also 2 inches narrower in width, so it is more of a slim fit. Therefore my sizing advice for those who buy online is to size down with the t-shirts if you are on the fence between sizes, but size up with the hoodies. For the raincoat, I got a Medium and I am happy with the fit. If anyone needs measurements, just ask. A Small would have also fit me, but I prefer the extra breathing room since the PVC the raincoats are made of has no give to it. So for the raincoat sizing I recommend that you go with whatever size tokidoki t-shirt usually fits you most comfortably.
Reader Marhem attended the Pervasive Persuasion event at MOCA in Los Angeles, CA with her husband on Saturday. The event included a panel discussion moderated by Eric Nakamura of Giant Robot and live artmaking “inspired by the pervasive work of Takashi Murakami” by artists Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, and Simone Legno.
The artists painted both on their own canvases and on a mural that everyone in the audience later got a chance to add to. Everybody got to bring a piece of the artwork home with them. Marhem was lucky to snag the sushi portion of the mural before the MOCA people were instructed that they were not supposed to cut specific parts and that the artwork was supposed to be given blindly (in a box).
The event wasn’t an official signing, but Marhem managed to have Simone (who had the longest line waiting to meet him) draw a Sandy for her. Simone’s girlfriend also gave Marhem and her husband three stickers and two tokidoki uchiwas, which made them feel quite special. 
And here are Marhem’s smile-worthy final thoughts: “Simone is the nicest, most humble, most accommodating and most appreciative famous person I know. After meeting him at the Mobius signing and last night at Moca, it just makes me like him more and patronize tokidoki more because he appreciates us and acknowledges that if not for us, his line would not be successful. I hope he continues to keep his feet planted on the ground despite his success. Way to go, Simone!”
These are some of the photos that Marhem took at the event. I added a closeup detail of the Mozzarella keychain that Simone had hanging out of the pocket of his tokidoki jeans to the first one. The guy in the center of the last photo is Oguri of Body Weather Laboratory doing a dance while Tim Biskup DJed and Simone and Gary Baseman painted.
So now that we have gotten a look at almost the entire spring 2008 line of tokidoki clothing on The Giant Peach (I think there are just a couple more pieces still to come) - what is on everyone’s spring 2008 wishlist?
My wishlist is: (some of them already ordered from The Giant Peach, who I also snagged all of the photos in this post from - can’t wait!):
I like the color combinations so much this season that I have been totally won over by some bits of pink here & there. 
I just finished posting the final additions to my tokidoki bag collection - finally, they are all up (all 65 of them)! Next I will move onto posting my tokidoki clothing collection (which is also quite massive) and then my toys and accessories.
Also, check out the latest additions to the reader tokidoki collections page - some new drool-worthy collections were added this week.
Exciting news: other stores besides Metropark are getting the tokidoki raincoats in! Tobi and The Giant Peach will be adding them very soon, and I also spotted 3 priced fairly on eBay.
I also see that The Giant Peach is in the process of posting their shipment of Spring 2008 clothing - here are two super-cute new hoodies that are up so far:
How cute is the new Adios & Ciao Ciao all-over print?!