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!
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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.
