Reader Taylor let me know that Simone is going to be doing another signing appearance in Hawaii at the Ala Moana Nordstrom store on Saturday, March 14th, from 2pm-5pm. Nordstrom may limit the signing to the first 200 people like they have previously.
A brand new tokidoki capsule store located in the Soho section of NYC will be opening on Saturday, March 7th! Come and meet Simone Legno on opening day from 1pm-4pm.
The Giant Peach and Trendy Stars just added two new styles of adorable baby onesies:
Happy Six is having a grand opening party for its new Plaza El Segundo location (in California), hosted by tokidoki, from 2pm-5pm this afternoon. Simone will be appearing at the event, and the first 50 guests will receive tokidoki prizes.
The tokidoki.it store is running a new promotion through December 15th at 11:59pm EST – spend $100 and receive a free Mozzarella ornament:
The full line of tokidoki for Hello Kitty II items have been posted to the Sanrio Japan website (with prices in yen). Thanks ciNNie for letting me know. Also, thanks to those posting updates about how the NY Times Square store received their shipment of tokidoki for Hello Kitty II items yesterday. I am sure that our ever-helpful JL SF will also keep us posted about when the items will arrive in San Francisco!
On Friday, December 5th, tokidoki artist Simone Legno comes to Seattle! The collaboration between Ride and tokidoki will be highlighted in the evo TimesInfinity Gallery for the month of December. Opening night event will be an incredible opportunity to see the person behind the tokidoki movement and a broad collection of his work. Join them for a beer, prizes, tokidoki/Ride products, wall mural by Simone, tunes, and a chance to win a piece of tokidoki art!
Dec 5th, 2008 at 7:00pm
FREE event
evo TimesInfinity Gallery
122 NW 36th St.
Seattle, WA 98107
Adobe is offering us all a free pass to Adobe MAX on Monday, November 17th in San Francisco, CA to come see Simone Legno from tokidoki (the pass also provides free access to all the activities at MAX!).
Space is limited to the first 200 who sign up. If you want to go, register now using promo code CRC998.
Registration for Simone Legno’s session will open at 4:00 pm on Monday, November 17. Registration is located at Moscone West, Level 1, 800 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA.
I have lots of updates to share this morning…
Below are the times that Simone Legno will be doing signings at the San Diego Comic-Con (reposted from blog.tokidoki.it):
Reader Caty just let me know that she was at STCC (Singapore Toy and Comic Convention) this past weekend for Simone Legno’s appearance. She took some video and photos of him performing a live art demo and wanted to share them with us. 
Other tid-bits:
Readers Janet and Sophie let me know that there is an announcement in the kidrobot forums that this year’s SDCC exclusive tokidoki designed vinyl toy will be the 8 inch dunny pictured below (retail price: $50).
And for those who have been wondering, Simone Legno will be signing these exclusive dunnys from 11am-2pm at SDCC on July 27th.
Reader Bridget also let me know that there will be a mini tokyoplastic geisha designed by Simone Legno as a ToyTokyo exclusive at the SDCC next month. She saw it at the ToyTokyo offices and will try to snap a picture for us before SDCC.
Update: here is the geisha photo, thanks to Will in the comments.
It will cost $40 at the ToyTokyo booth at SDCC, and it is approximately 4 inches tall.
Reader Michelle let me know that Simone will be signing at Nordstrom in Ala Moana Center in Hawaii on June 7, 2008. The details are:
Introducing tokidoki for Onitsuka Tiger
Meet Simone Legno
NORDSTROM
BP Shoes – Level 2
Saturday, June 7, 2008
1pm-4pm
1200 Ala Moana Center
Honolulu, HI
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Also, for those of you who have been looking for a store that will ship the tokidoki jewelry internationally, Sue from Canada just pointed out in another post’s comments that Trendy Stars will do so. I see that they just added the tokidoki for Hello Kitty necklace and just about all of the latest 2008 jewelry.
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!
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.
Reader Marhem just sent in her photos from the Simone signing party at Mobius that took place last week in Los Angeles to share with us – I still want Simone’s hoodie.
Reader Liane sent in some photos from the Simone signing party at Mobius that took place last night in Los Angeles to share with us:
^^ I see a case of Cactus Pups blind boxes!
Los Angeles tokidoki fans are in luck – the tokidoki.it blog just reported that Simone will be at a signing event in LA on December 8, 2007. The event will take place at Mobius (3300 W. 6th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90020) from 7pm-11pm to celebrate the upcoming release of the cactus pups and cactus cats.
