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Category: Toys

  • Dakara Pig

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    If you buy a bottle of Dakara these days, you get this tiny little figure with it. The pig is seen in recent TV commercials. There are magnets at the base of the pig and the bottle, so when you approach the bottle to the pig you can make it spin (as it does, prancing…

  • PingMag: Toy Designer Alex Kubalsky

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    PingMag interviews Alex Kubalsky, a toy designer for Takara, who works on the Transformers line of toys.

  • Takeji Nakagawa

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    Brian has a post over at Cool Hunting on the very cool sci-fi-inspired wooden toys by craftsman Takeji Nakagawa (or Take-G).

  • Spider-Man Figure Collection

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    I’m usually not particularly attracted to super-hero related merchandise, but I couldn’t resist picking up a few of these Spider-Man gacha-gacha figures. I picked up these ones — Carnage, regular Spider-Man, and Venom — a week ago, and the other day I added the Scarlet Spider-Man. You can see the entire series — seven in…