a play imaginative visit (part one)

i wished i'd brought my camera when i popped by Play Imaginative's office yesterday (for a wee "chat" *heh*) - the toys on display were simply exceptional! (the show @ Galleria Foyer is gonna an eye-popper) and while i tried my very best to contain my fan-boy-excitement, i'd haveta say, you would literally have to see and hold the products up close (the images does not fully do them justice) to

play imaginative @ ttf 2007 and sdcc 2007

Play Imaginative is pulling out all the stops this year with a bountiful selection ofreleases slated for July/August, most notably for Taipei Toy Festival and SDCC:and here is a summary of what is to come, including signing schedulesfor TTF'07 = *details after the JUMP*headlining the selection this year is their Touma-designed vinyl GRABBIT series [labelled] slated to debut during SDCC, with two

zugan finalists for mephist festa design contest

and so my Zugan designs didn't get chosen, but these top six entries picked by Play Imaginative X Touma for the Mephist Festa design competition [blogged] are positively rawking! with Jim Koch's pink mecha chosen for production, while Chuando, Delme, Mizuka, Satoshi Okano and Shin Tanaka's currently under consideration for production [via] ~ *congrats to everyone on the list!*final designs for

my mephist festa fiesta contest submission

this is my submission to the Vinyl Abuse X Play Imaginative's Mephist Festa Fiesta competition:and of coz what would i do but 1/6th-versions of them! *LOL*a little behind-the-scenes-action for y'all who are interested:the initial G.I.Joe-figure with glued-on horns, sprayed in basic white primer - it looked better this way, IMHO - becoz after i'd applied the hawt Fluorescent Pink-paint, the

1/6 jig

chanced upon the boys doing a lil jig, while waiting for their paint to dry ...*sigh* ya just can't leave them alone sometimes, ya know? *heh*

mephist festa vinyl @ ttf and sdcc

Touma's figures (last featured here and here) are going to be released by Play Imaginative during the Taipei Toy Festival and SDCC. [via]both the far left and right figures are 5" tall, while the big guy in the middle is 7" and GID. there are 3 individual boxes for the figures, with a bigger box to contain all 3 ~ dunno about you guys, but ima disappointed with the end result - a tad too

new toys from play imaginative

new in da inbox: Play Imaginative expands beyond the realm of (just) Trexi by revealing a superb line-up of new vinyls figures for a varied spread of designers (click on links to see more images of proto-type clay sculpts):> Mephist Festa! is designed by Touma from Japan.> Dekoboko Boy is designed by Devilrobots and Furi Furi from Japan.> Spooky Cat is designed by Danny Chan from HK.> Ultra Kong