My Melody

My Melody and Twin Stars Celebrates 40 Years in the limelight

 and in Taipei they get celebrated with a 40th Exhibition!!

Lots of licensed goods have been coming out, of course...  From clothing, to Stationary, to Household goods, etc...   My most FAVE one to come out is this My Melody Bearbrick from Medicom Toy - No Surprise There!  

She arrived just in time too - so she got to attend the exhibition with us!!!

Taipei Toy Festival 2014

Yesterday was a fun filled day attending the Annual Taipei toy Festival....  Not as big as the last few ones I have attended but just as wonderful and jam packed with so much Vinyl Goodies!!!  So crowded it was that it was mind boggling how to, not just navigate to where your faves are - but also quite hard to get close to see the goods once you have managed to find the booths of your choice.

Still, manage we did.....   and a Fun Time was had by all...  as always!!!

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Some of the offerings on display that caght my attention!!!

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Another FAVE and MUST TAKE HOME each and every visit to the Taipei Toy Festival: Fluffy House's denizens....  Their Diorama Displays for this year are quite cute....  Will make you feel the need to have your very own... Sorry Not For Sale!  Though the clothing are quite cute, too - had to Pass as they were a bit on the pricey side!!!

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Just Us (Cecilia, Juliana, Sue and I) loving the STYA REAL display!!!

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My Double 10 Happiness

Pls Note: Am still adding more to this album.

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.

Taipei Toy Exhibition

A couple of days ago, I happened upon this really cool Toy Exhibition at Misukoshi A9 - in Taipei...  was actually walking home from a frustrating afternoon and came across the EVENTS POSTER - needless to say, my mood changed right away, and right there and then, I was on my way up to the 9th Floor of the A9 Building to take in the Exhibition....

Actually lots to see at this Exhibition....   cute vinyl toys from familiar brands such as the likes of QEE, Hot Toys, Astro Boy, CI Boys, etc...  plus Action figures of all sizes - LIFESIZE even!!!   Am one am not too familiar with, COSMI Toys.   Their goods are new to me...  seems they are trying to cut into the Be@rbrick/Qee market by producing an in between looking type figures - they run the gamut of Disney characters to Marvel & DC Comics Heroes....  They are cute, no doubt about that - just not too sure I need to get started on another collection... LOL!

ASTRO BOY, CI BOYS, Danny Chan's Killer Cat and more...

COSMI TOY COLLECTIONS

There was an IMPRESSIVE section of 12 inch Action Figure Vinyl Toys/Dolls....  from Military Figures to Manga ones; from Real Celebrities to Political Figures (Chairman Mao, Obama, Jay Chou, James Franco, etc); and of course, dolls from popular films such as Star Wars, Marvel Movies (Iron Man, Batman, etc), Scream, and even a few Jim Carrey movies such as Ace Ventura, Mask, and as The Joker....  These figures were made by various different companies...

Jim Carrey From The Mask, Ace Ventura, and as the Grinch!

BATMAN FIGURES

An added Mini Exhibition was on hand, as well.. located just the floor below with easy access escalator to take you there....  This one focuses on Anime/Manga Figures - in many different sizes....  such a GREAT Treat seeing all these UBER COOL, CUTE & FUN figures - of everyone's most loved Anime/Manga characters...

FOR COMPLETE PHOTOS PLS CLICK LINKS BELOW:

Exhibition 1

Exhibition 2

(Note: still working on UPOLOADING ALL THE PHOTOS  - Sorry!)