Remember this tokidoki x Zakkamono collaboration toy that caused a minor ruckus back in February?
The tokidoki Miao is available for pre-order now on the Zakkamono website with an estimated ship date of June 2008. It stands over 9″ tall, weighs in at over 3 pounds 7″ tall, and retails for $80. Thanks to Noah for letting me know!
Remember the tokidoki Pirata necklace that I blogged about back in February? Well, tokidoki just let me know that the necklace will be officially released as an exclusive to shop.tokidoki.it customers only - hopefully later in the day today! It will retail for $45, be limited to 250 pieces, and there will be a new shop.tokidoki.it homepage design to celebrate its release.
*begins obsessively clicking to check for it*
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Vicky from Chicki just received her shipment of new 2008 European tokidoki jewelry and took photos of it to share with us. The pendants are BIG! She took some photos of the necklaces on mannequins to give us a helpful sense of scale.
Vicky also let me know that she just got an e-mail confirming the release of the Skeletrino and Skeletrina vinyl toys. They will be in stores by mid to late June. The USA retail price will be $10.95 each, and the UK retail price will be about £6.95 each. Here is a photo of them that I ganked from Vinyl Pulse:
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Jamie from JapanLA just sent me photos of the latest tokidoki watches - Razor, Pizza Mia, and Solar. She said that she is already sold out of the Razor watch (which is my favorite!), but can special order it for people.
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.
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. Bulleto is the male counterpart to Mozzarella and will come packaged with the vinyl shotgun shells pictured.
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.)
Reader Bridget just let me know that tokidoki and Medicom Toy will be releasing a Be@rbrick tokidoki design soon - I did a little research and found that it will retail for $19.99 and be available in mid-April. It will be limited to to just 1,000 pieces, and is 3″ tall.
I found them available for pre-order on Tenacious Toys, who also lists this piece as a “100% Tokidoki ToyTokyo North America Exclusive.”
Panik’s Toy Box has a new coupon code good for 20% off any purchase of $50 or more (excluding gift certificates). Enter coupon code fool08 before checkout to get the discount. This code expires at midnight EST on April 2, 2008.
Panik’s Toy Box is having a Leap Day 2008 sale now through midnight EST, February 29, 2008. Enter coupon code leap08 before checkout to get 20% off any purchase (excluding gift certificates). They are also awarding double Panik Points on every purchase made through March 2nd, 2008.
Also, I think many of you have noticed this already, but just in case you haven’t - the tokidoki.it store has also added a bunch more new necklaces. They are all soOoOo cute! These are some of my new favorites:
Thank you to Leah for pointing out that tokidoki just posted pictures from the Pool Trade show to their blog - including sneak peeks at some new t-shirt designs (I see popcorn guy!!), hats, toys (including the Sandy and Mozzarella plush dolls once again, and if you bump your screen resolution up to 800×600 and look closely you’ll also see a black Skeletrino and a purple Skeletrina), sneaker-boots, jewelry, and BAGS. If you look closely at the pictures, you can see at least three different prints (Carnival and Concerto Punk, I believe, plus the new solid black) and a few different bag styles. One photo also shows the new Adios keychain design.
An anonymous reader just pointed out a post on ToysREvil announcing the upcoming release of a new vinyl toy called Miao the Lucky Cat, who comes paired with a smaller character called Mousubi. The 7″ tall figure was sculpted by Zakka, the color artwork and package design was done by Simone of tokidoki, and the figure will be produced by Zakkamono. This collaboration will be limited to 500 pieces, with a tentative release date of April 2008. No pricing info is available yet. Miao will retail for $80 plus shipping and handling (thanks, LMJ, for the looking into this!). Here is a picture, courtesy of ToysREvil - they have a couple more up as well:
Many thanks to Saki for sending me a link to an interview with Simone at JoshSpear.com that includes all sorts of exciting info, including confirmation that there definitely will be a new line of bags branded only as tokidoki - “but made by same people behind LeSportsac; same team, same factories.”
Me: w00t!
Wallet: *FEAR*
Other exciting news, all lifted from the interview: the next cactus friends toy released will be the cactus punk character! That will be a must have for me. Also coming soon are “tokidoki denim in Europe; the two cats of adios and ciao ciao called Skeletrino and Skeletrina; a new line of New Era hats; mimobots; plushes; new lines of watches, jewelry, and other cool stuff.”
ANNNDD - there are plans to open a tokidoki store in the USA in 2009. Simone is “looking for a location.”
CAN’T WAIT!!!
Panik’s Toy Box is having a 2-day sale starting today and ending at midnight EST January 18, 2008.
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.
If you are reading this in the final hours of 2007 and fiending for some toys, Panik’s Toy Box is offering double Panik Points and 15% off any purchase (excluding gift certificates) with coupon code lastday07 at checkout. The double Panik Points will be automatically added to your account. The coupon expires tonight at midnight EST.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Ria let me know that while she was at Rotofugi’s Micro Ninja Release Party in Chicago a couple weeks ago, she spotted the two new vinyl toys designed by Simone Legno for Wonderwall’s Kaiju for Growups series for sale. She took this photo of them - which I have to admit is the first that I had seen or heard of these toys:
Each vinyl toy is 6 inches tall and retails for $75 - the pink colorway is limited to 200 pieces, and the gold colorway is limited to 100 pieces.
The Bruttino and Carina cactus cats vinyl toys that I pre-ordered last month from Panik’s Toy Box arrived yesterday, and they are sOOoOo cute! The packaging that they came in is also so cute that I can’t throw it away. Bruttino and Carina are the same size as the Bastardino and Polpettina vinyl toys, and they all look adorable hanging out together. Here are my kitties, along with the boxes that they came in:
