Tokidoki Blog

It’s that time of year again - my summertime Infrequent Posting Alert. As you may have already noticed, I am going to be slower than usual with posting and responding to e-mails and comments for the month of July, so please don’t think I am ignoring you if my responses take forever until next month.

Onto some catching up…

• The Giant Peach has the Mozzarella and Sandy plush dolls in stock now. They added the tokidoki Miao vinyl toy as well. Lynn also let me know that there are a bunch of the tokidoki plush on eBay.
• The tokidoki for Ride collaboration items are starting to pop up in stores - Jessica found them on IskiShop.
• Jessica also sent me a bunch of photos (below) of toys that will be released at SDCC this month - tokidoki for Onitsuka tiger vinyl toys, a platinum Bulleto, platinum cactus friends, and platinum pups! Joslyn let me know about these items too, and Bridget contributed additional photos of the tokidoki tokyoplastic geisha that will also be released at SDCC.

Reader Janette just discovered three Moofia mystery figures on eBay.

Has anyone seen them before?

UPDATE: These 3 figures have been added to the Moofia blind box series, and myplasticheart will be releasing them at the New York Comic Con, along with a Platinum edition Sandy vinyl toy. (Thanks to Hazeleger in the comments for the info.)

It’s time for another free giveaway! Once again Panik’s Toy Box has been nice enough to donate another awesome prize - a full set of Cactus Pups!

To enter, post a comment with the name of your favorite cactus pup. Please comment only once - multiple entries will be condensed into a single comment and/or deleted before the drawing for a winner takes place.

This contest ends on Friday, February 1st at 12:00 noon EST. At that time, a winner will be chosen via random drawing, and a new post will be made announcing the winner. Be sure to post your comment with a valid e-mail address that you plan to check on February 1st. This contest is open to everyone worldwide. Good luck!

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.

Panik’s Toy Box is having a 2-day sale starting today and ending at midnight EST January 18, 2008.

• Spend $25 - $49.99 and save 10% - use code blizzard10
• Spend $50 - $99.99 and save 15% - use code blizzard15
• Spend $100 - $199.99 and save 20% - use code blizzard20
• Spend $200 - $499.99 and save 25% - use code blizzard25
• Spend $500 or more and save 30% - use code blizzard30

Coupon codes should be applied during your checkout process, are not valid on gift certificates, and may not be combined with any other coupon or offer.

Now that I have finally taken these new goodies off long enough to photograph them - here are some pictures of the tokidoki gifts that I got for Christmas. I love them all!

I was very excited that my full set of Cactus Pups arrived in record time from Panik’s Toy Box, so I got to open them on Christmas too. The sausage with the little face on it is too cute.

What tokidoki did you get for Christmas? (Note that now that we are no longer at Wordpress, you can post photos in the comments now - just use the code:

<*img src="http://url_of_your_image.jpg" /*>

and remove the *s before posting).

p.s. I have added several new Reader tokidoki Collections in the past two days, check them out.

Panik’s Toy Box just let me know that they received part of their shipment of Cactus Pups yesterday, and have begun filling pre-orders. So if you pre-ordered the pups from them, you should receive them soon. They also now have full opened sets of all 7 Cactus Pups available for $34.99 per set. Quantities are limited right now, but they will have more available when they get their next shipment in January. I just ordered a full set - I will post pics when I get them.

UPDATE: Thanks to Janet for the reminder to use coupon code holiday10 to get 10% off when ordering from Panik’s Toy Box. Ironically, I forgot to use it when I placed my order.

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!

Reader Tara let me know that the tokidoki Cactus Pups will be avaiable for purchase at the Simone signing party at Mobius today - Mobius’ shipment of the Pups arrived last night.  This should also mean that if you pre-ordered a case or blind boxes, that they should be shipping out soon!  I am looking forward to Panik’s Toy Box offering opened full sets of the Cactus Pups.

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.

Panik’s Toy Box just added an option to pre-order the new tokidoki Cactus Pups vinyl mini figures by the case ($174.99*) and in individual blind boxes ($4.99 each*). After they receive their shipment, which will be some time in December, they will also offer the option to buy full opened sets of all 7 figures.

*Or less, if you use one of their 13 Days of Halloween promotion codes, which are valid through October 31st.

STRANGEco just announced the new tokidoki mini figure blind box series: a set of 7 Cactus Pups! Each Cactus Pup will be just one inch tall and will come packaged with a cute accessory like a dog bowl, soccer ball, or sausage.   Retail will be $4.99 each.

The names of each new Cactus Pup are, starting clockwise from the top left: Timidina, Ciotolina, Salamino, Riposino, Malandrino, Bastardino Jr., and Tortellino.

Props to Autodactyl for letting me know that these figures had been officially announced (and for the update that they will definitely be made of vinyl). The Cactus Pups should be available in stores in December.

Update: new photo of the Cactus Pups set with their accessories (thanks, hazelnut):