Chinese New Year 2014

Chinese New Year for me would not be complete without the Vinyls coming out to help celebrate... This year, these cuties got to come out and partake in the display...

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Happy New Year Greetings - Japanese Style!!!

4 X Lucky!!!  Lucky Cats with a Taipei Toy Festival Exclusive

KEWPIE X RODY

Tokidoki's Royal Pride Hopes for Big Fortune!!!

A few of the Fashion Dolls that made it, too!!!

RODY Everywhere!!!

2014 is Truly proving to be RODY's  year...  

Only January and he is already popping up here, there, n just about everything!!!  

Here's a few RODY Sightings so far:

PONY X RODY:  Extended from the Holidays are these super FUN and Bright colored Trainers!!

RODY offerings for Chinese New Year from this Specialty Cake and Cookie Shop!

And Family Mart started running their newest Premiums Program

with RODY taking center stage once more!!!

Whole Again!!!

A few days ago as I was setting up my Chinese New Year display, I had a bit of an accident...  As I was positioning the Lucky Cats, I dropped the Red one, about 6 feet above ground...  Though they do not really get destroyed,  he did come apart and pieces flew here and there...  Got most of the pieces together but Sadly, i lost one of his hands...  For over 3 hours i searched under all the furnitures...  Looked in every nook and cranny - no luck...  So he was left looking sad with one missing hand.

Days passed and I feel even sorrier for him...  Felt frustrated and was even  a tiny bit mad at myself for being a klutz..,

Today as I was cleaning and sweeping the whole house once more...  sweeping once more under all the cabinets and furnitures...  Hoping... Praying...   My Prayers were answered...  Lo and behold, it turned up!!!

And Lucky RED Cat is whole again...  Once more he can stand proudly next to the other three....  Much to my Joy!!  Here's hoping they really bring me "goodluck" this coming Year of the Horse!!!

Winter Hello Kittys X Mcdonalds

Wow can't believe the program has come and gone and I did not even get to post these Hello Kitty cuties, in Winter Pastel colors and settings, for McDonald's over the Holidays. And for some added fun, each and everyone has a mechanical function - with the moving sleigh and hula hoop ones being faves of Juju and I!

                                          

For 4 weeks, 2 each week, Kids and adults alike gobbled up so much Happy Meals and in my case Quarter Pounder with Cheese to get them...  The extra pounds gained were worth it as each one is pretty cute.  Believe me,  that's a lot coming from someone who does not like Pink too much.  LOL!

RODY Land

Taiwan celebrates 30th Anniversary of this popular character with a retrospective exhibition...  Am aware of this character as I have seen it pop up as Premiums for both Hi*Life and Family Mart - but I was not aware Rody has been around that long... Yowza!!

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The History of Rody:

The Rody character was born in 1984 at Ledraplastic's, in Italy. Its rounded shape comes from the idea of "melting" together several balls of various sizes to get a nice character which could catch attention of children. It had to look active and friendly at the same time. A jumping horse was the result. At first we wanted to call this toy "Rodeo" but then, in order to avoid any possible problems with patents, etc, we decided to call it "RODY", which also sounded mode friendly to children. To give an idea of a possible fantastic setting for a story, it is possibile to refer to the Rhodos island and its Knights. The reason is the island name, Rhodos, which is very close to our Rody's name) and its history and location, between the Western and Eastern culture.

*Source: rodytoy.com

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The Souvenir Wind Up Jumping Rodys Juju and I got from the 30th Anniversary Exhibition...  Included in the price of the Tickets!

 

Anyway, for complete photos of the exhibition, PLS CLICK THIS!

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Below are a few RODY goods already in my collection...

RODY X Maruko-chan for Family Mart

A total of 12 different Global Designs to the collection!

Another cool one brought to us by Family Mart is this pair of Christmas RODY X Molly*

*Molly is another popular Vinyl Character by HK designer Henry Lau.

 

Hi*Life came out with these Basic RODYs....  in pretty soft colors!

 

RODY X Kewpie

Picked up from the 30th Anniversary Exhibition

This one comes in many different colors - I opted for just the Blue version.