Saki just wrote to let me know that she went to the TokyoPlastic custom geisha show at The Showroom on Saturday night, and saw that Simone had done a custom geisha. It is not for sale, but she took a picture to share with all of us. It’s cute!
Then I checked out Saki’s blog, Saki Wrote What?!! and saw that there is a tokidoki Kaniza vinyl figure being released at SDCC ’08. It will be limited to 1,000 pieces.
As several of you have e-mailed to me and posted in the comments (thanks Jessica, Melissa, Lashonne, nxdlamb, and ariasmama – I’m a little behind and need to catch up again!), The Giant Peach just added 4 new tokidoki for Hello Kitty clothing items, including the blue t-shirt, black short sleeve hoodie, a t-shirt version of the all-over print tank top that we have seen, plus a new dress that we haven’t seen anywhere else yet. The Giant Peach’s photos show a better version of the colors of the all-over print (with the red looking correctly red instead of orangey).
Also, if you haven’t noticed it yet, I added the Tokidoki Reference Photos page and am working my way through getting all of the submissions added.
I have received some additional photos from NYCC from Iman and Cleofe, so here they are! But first, a really fun review – and video! – of the event from Alex:
“I’d like to share that my twin sister Juli and I were at NYCC this weekend and it was an amazing experience! I actually went to Simone autograph signing on Friday in a Mozzarella costume! Everyone on line for autographs gave me lots of positive feedback, warm regards and even took pics with me :] It was really awesome! By the time it was my turn to get an autograph from Simone I was a nervous wreck ahah. It was incredible though to see how excited he was to see me in my costume. He signed my Mozzarella toy and then asked for a pic with me and such. I asked him to sign my costume and he told me it was hard to draw on. I replied that he could just scribble on my costume and it would be fine. I snagged a picture of him and was very pleased :] While my sister was getting her drawing done, he made sure to point out Mozzarella’s boyfriend, Bulleto to us. We told him that we were twins and that we’d probably start working on that costume next! Then we grabbed a pic with him and proceeded to go buy lots of stuff from the TD booth next to him. Overall, it was a really incredible experience to get to meet him. We wouldn’t trade it for the world!”
Alex also has a video of her meeting with Simone to share – pay close attention to the first few seconds when Simone spots her costume, it is awesome!!
Iman’s NYCC 2008 Photos:
Cleofe’s NYCC 2008 Photos:
Alex (in her costume!) and her sister Juli meeting Simone:
Reader Heather just let me know that she received a call telling her that the tokidoki L’Amore print re-release is today! It should be starting about 4-5 hours after the time of this posting. As with the other tokidoki bag print re-releases, the L’Amore print re-release is happening at LeSportsac stores in Hawaii and Guam only.
ALSO: According to the Waikiki LeSportsac manager via Krisha, the May re-release of Pirata has been canceled.
Reader Nicole just found pages on the Sanrio Japan website that show the latest pink, greeen, and black tokidoki for Hello Kitty items all in one place! We have seen many of these items on eBay recently but I thought it would be useful for everyone to have these links to refer to, so here they are:
These are some pictures that my best friend Amy (that’s her in the second pic!) took of Simone doing signings at NYCC this past weekend – enjoy!
Karmaloop just added a new page called tokidoki Bags & Accessories that has 3 watches on it so far, including the super-cute new Adios and Ciao Ciao sushi watch. I am very tempted to break my ban and get it since it is 20% off with a Karmaloop rep code at checkout!
Reader Maarten just pointed out a post on Vinyl Pulse announcing a new tokidoki Moofia vinyl toy called Bulleto that is due out in the summer. Bulletto is the male counterpart to Mozzarella and will come packaged with the vinyl shotgun shells pictured.
Some of you already saw Christina point this out in the comments, but I thought I’d make a new post about it too – the tokidoki.it store just added the turquoise and black t-shirts tokidoki for Hello Kitty t-shirts. Retail price is $48 each and it looks like they are selling out fast!
Mimoco is giving away a tokidoki bag, a 4GB tokidoki for MIMOBOT designer USB flash drive, and a one-off vinyl art toy hand-drawn by Simone Legno next Tuesday, April 22nd. Go here to sign up for their newsletter and enter the contest. **fingers crossed**
This is a picture that Dan sent me of all of the giveaway prizes:
p.s. I have received everyone’s reference photos & hope to have the new page added by next week (maybe sooner).