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NewsfeedsToy Fair 2009 - Official Revenge of the Fallen Robot Heroes, Gravity Bots & MoreWe just received official some official shots of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen figures, ranging from the following sublines: Gravity Bots, Power Bots, Robot Heroes, Robot Replicas, Role Play, Ultimate Bumblebee, Voyagers and Scouts classes, Battle Chargers, RPMs, R/C cars, and vehicle playset. Mass consume...now. Because there are such a large number of new types of figures, out, here#039;s a quick image guide to which figures are part of which sub-line: Gravity Bots RPMs Robot H
Categories: Transformers
Toy Fair 2009 - Revenge of the Fallen Tie-In MerchandiseWe all learned that from Transformers (as well as many other film promotions) that the toys will not be the only things invading shelves when Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen hits theaters this June 24, 2009, as there will be an onslaught of desirable merchandise. For those guys hunting this valuable stuff, this is the gallery for you. We have images of Bumble Spud, the Mr. Transformers version Mr. Potato Head follow-up to the extremely awesome (emphasis this poster#039;s) Optimash Prime, hats, t-s
Categories: Transformers
Toy Fair 2009 - New Star Wars Transformers Figures Out In SummerOur sister-site Jedi Insider has posted official images of new Star Wars Transformers figures coming out in June and July of this year. The figures include Kit Fisto/Jedi Starfighter (available June 09), Battle Droid/ATT (June 09), Magna Guard/Fighter (July 09), and Ahsoka Tano/Jedi Star Fighter (July 09). Please note that the deco on Kit Fisto will be different than from what is shown in these mock-ups. For the images, head over to JediInsider.com.
Categories: Transformers
Toy Fair 2009: Doc Holliday Six Gun Legends Premium Format FigureToy Fair 2009: Doc Holliday Six Gun Legends Premium Format Figure
Categories: Toy News
New Gunn 4 Hire; Tyrus Kilemahl (E.B.S.) by Triad Toys"With the highest confirmed killing record of all time, Tyrus Kilemahl has become a celebrity among the armed forces of America. Facing numerous court martial charges for using excessive force as well as civil suits for violence, Tyrus is forced to quit the military despite his willingness to serve the country. Gunn Industries quickly seized the opportunity by creating a new fire support divisiontoysrevilnoreply@blogger.com0
Categories: Designer Toys, Toy News
Random Weekend Star Wars Fun (2/14&15)Bespin texting, Imperial themes & more!
Categories: Star Wars
Toy Fair 2009: Audio Recording For The G.I.Joe PanelToy Fair 2009: Audio Recording For The G.I.Joe Panel
Categories: Toy News
Sideshow Honors Direct Dealers During Toy Fair 2009!
Categories: Toy News
Katsura Hoshino to Resume D.Gray-man Manga on March 9Meister ends; Belze Babu launches next week, Hoopmen in 2 weeks
Categories: Anime
The Reading Monster
uhoh Toys has released their newest figure - The Reading Monster - in limited quantities. Two colorways have been released: the Silver/Black Fade and the Bloody Valentine Limited Edition. The Silver/Black Fade comes in a bag with header card, and the Bloody Valentine version comes packaged in a special metal tin. The Reading Monster is 3.25" tall, handmade and cast in translucent resin, limited and numbered with a Certificate of Authenticity. Each figure runs $10.
Categories: Designer Toys
Toy Fair 2009 Has Begun!
Categories: Toy News
Good Smile Company Live Broadcast 5 
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Usually at around this time of year, a major figure event called the Wonder Festival takes place at Tokyo Big Sight where otaku can enjoy looking/buying the latest garage kits, figures, Dollfies and indulge in some cosplay too.
Unfortunately there was an incident with an escalator at the last event which caused some injury to some folk. Neither Tokyo Big Sight or the organizers of the Wonfes (Kaiyodo) want to take responsibility for the accident which is still an issue - the issue still being up in the air has lead to the Feb Wonfes being canceled. In place of the Wonfes, Good Smile Company decided to have their own event - the WonHobby which took place in Akiba. You can see some coverage at Lester Ho and Punynari. And then at the end of each Wonfes, there is usually a broadcast which carries on until the morning next day - today we look at the behind the scenes of the broadcast.
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I couldn't make it due to other meetings and work. Now that I'm guest blogging on one of the worlds most read blogs (Boing Boing), I've had to take out extra time to keep the server up and distribute the load of the images and what have you - spent a lot of the afternoon doing that.
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Got to the Good Smile offices at about 9PM-ish and settled in to my temporary desk to do some work and catch up on some meetings regarding the Good Smile Website.
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Apart from meeetings, I'm here to provide translations during the broadcast for the main guest.
Have a quick meeting with Mikatan and go over the outline of our slot.
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Its past 10PM and the show starts. Posted these NicoNico videos earlier on in the Billy Herrington news item and pasted them again below. Don't think you need to register for a Nico ID but let me know if you cant see the vids - if you are viewing by RSS then you wont see them as the player looks at the refferal in order to work - blame Nico and not me ^^
They may take a while to stream depending on what time you are viewing. Part 2 below And some of the live performance at Akiba in the afternoon.
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When the show started, many staff were still in Akiba packing up after the event.
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There are many guests in the evening - one of the first guests is the Seiyuu Mako who does the voice for Akiha Shishido from Sora Kake - me need to catch up on a back log for that. On your watch list?
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Having some food break in the main meeting room.
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Some most yummy food.
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The boss of GSC Aki-san.
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Boss of Nitro Plus who I worked with to produce the eroge Miracle Mirai. Stay tuned for more Nitro Plus x dannychoo.com collaborations.
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The resident figure sculptors are around the table resting after a hectic day running around.
Been talking to many of the folks in the office and its great to hear how many of them are working in a field that they are passionate about - anime, manga and figures. How many of you have plans to work in any of these industries and what are you doing now (not tomorrow or the next day) so that you get to your destination?
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This is Nendoron - GSC fans will know him for his moe-some figure sculpts.
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We watch the broadcast from the huge screen in the meeting room.
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Still doing the Sora Kake PR. Mako has got an incredible voice!
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More folks are back from the event.
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Some lovely posters at the entrance. Gotta love Sabers armpits. Wonder how fragrant they are.
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Back in the main office area to see whats going on.
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We're still on Sora Kake.
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More folks start to turn up in the main area of the office.
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Decide to go on air with me hat - just cut my hair and it looks berry short ^^;
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And here is the star of the whole event and broadcast - Billy Herrington - the following text taken from that Wikipedia entry.
Billy Herrington (born July 14, 1969, Long Island, New York) is a bisexual American actor best known for his work in gay pornography.
Herrington began his erotic career when a friend surreptitiously submitted his nude pictures to Playgirl magazine. The photographs won him a "Real Men of the Month" contest and a $500 prize. His appearance in the magazine caught the eye of famed photographer Jim French but it would be two years before Herrington would shoot his first Colt calendars for French. Soon after that he would be shooting hardcore gay pornography for All Worlds Video. Herrington became one of the more well-known gay porn stars of the late 1990s, even appearing on mainstream talk-show "Ricki Lake." And why is Billy popular among the Japanese crowd? Herrington has also become an internet meme among the Japanese community after a clip from one of his videos 'Workout' was posted on Nico Nico Douga, a Japanese video sharing website. Over 3000 parody videos of him have been made, many of which utilizes deliberate mishearings of his lines in the porn flick. He is affectionately called "Big Brother"(aniki) among the Nico Nico Douga community, and most of his videos are deliberately tagged with "Forest Fairy" (mori no yousei), "Philosophy" (tetsugaku), or both. An example of one of those parody videos below which was easier to find on YouTube ^^; Just want to point out that we don't tolerate racism, sexist or gayist remarks on DC.
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Mikatan, Aki, Billy and I go over the general flow of the scheduled 30 min slot.
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I really didn't appreciate the enjoyment of the Nico Nico comments until this evening. For those who don't know, Nico Nico is a video sharing site just like YouTube but where users can type comments and watch other users comments fly across the screen.
This evening, we had a huge screen where we could watch users comments in real time and interact with the users as they watched our live broadcast. One needs a premium paid account to view Nico Nico but can watch it for free with a login. Sometimes their servers get a hammering and thats when free users start to experience delays in streaming - premium account payers are given priority in watching stress free streaming.
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We start off by me briefly introducing myself and from that moment on, thousands of referrals from the Google query term [ダニー・チュー] (my name in Japanese) started to appear in my server logs ^^;
The GSC team was watching all the 2chan threads like this one where folks were pasting in the url to my Japanese profile page (English version here). Saw many comments in the form of [凄い経歴を持つ人!] (Sugoi keireki wo motsu hito!) or "the chap with the outstanding career" - if you managed to watch the broadcast and saw me shyly smiling it was because I read those comments on the big screen in front of us ^^;
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Then its time for Billy to come on - there were so many Nico comments that one could hardly see the screen.
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This is one of the smaller screens dotted around the office. Streams of [兄貴] (Aniki) or "big brother" flying across the screen.
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The show was a very play by ear relaxed show - had a load of laughs. This is where Billy picks up some sushi but drops the rice. Akiyama (one of the presenters) was saying that Billy is so strong that he destroyed the sushi.
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While I think I have a good command of Japanese, translating in real time is a different ball game. Was pleased with most of my translating but there were times when I couldn't think of the English equivalent - good and bad.
This is good because learning Japanese from Japanese words and descriptions goes to show you that you have a good command of the language - its also probably the correct way to further improve language skills as the nuance other languages are different - a child starts to learn language using the language that they already speak. This is bad because you look like a wally trying to think about how to translate something during a live broadcast ^^;
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The chap in red is Max Watanabe - the boss of Max factory. We need to thank him for the Figmas.
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Billy leaves Tokyo this Tuesday. Was supposed to go out with him and some of the team members tonight but somebody fell sick. If they feel better then we will go out n about Tokyo tomorrow but if not then it will be when hes back in July for the release of Billy's very own Figma figure.
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A reader made a figure of Billy and wanted to give it to him in person but couldn't make it so I gave it to him instead ^^;
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The reaction from the Nico users is [おおおおおおおおお!] (pronounced "Orrrrrrrrrrrrrr" - the sound you make when you are impressed with something.
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The figure had a long message in English on the back which I was asked to read out in Japanese.
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I started off trying a silly voice but realized it was inappropriate as it was a gift from a fan to Billy - I'm learning every day.
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There is a section that we done which is missing from these photos because the lady who was taking them got on stage to measure bits of Billy with a tape measure. We asked the viewers what part of Billy they wanted measured and all we saw was [息子] (Musuko) meaning "Son" but is the colloquial word for "Dolphin" - I explain what Musuko is to Billy ^^;
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Forgot to ask for that lovely poster of Saber Lily.
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And then its time to introduce the Billy Figure which is available for pre-order at NicoNico for 2,500 yen.
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Billy takes my Kagamin and places her head in front of his Figma's dolphin...
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A lady from Dwango comes on to plug the Billy ring tones and mobile screen savers.
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And right at the end Billy unexpectedly rips open his shirt^^;
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A few poses before he...
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...flings his shirt at the staff.
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Nice catch.
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And then its chucking out time for Billy and I.
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Quick snap with Billy before he runs downstairs to the awaiting Taxi.
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Guests continue onto the early hours of the morning. The last time I was on the show I stayed until 4AM and got home at 6.
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Me stays in the office for a while to catch up with other staff.
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Some goodies spotted on the snacks table! Photos tomorrow - a few of them are just soooooooooo gorgeous - me was in danger of nearly eating them.
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Back in the main meeting room for some food and continued meetings.
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Then its off to the car parked nearby. Its about 02:20AM-ish.
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1,500 yen for 5 hours-ish parking.
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Managed to drive back home in 40 mins instead of the predicted 60 mins by the Carnavi - listening to Ridge Racer R4 music while driving on the clear Tokyo highways over the city at night (at a certain speed ^^;) is really like playing Ridge Racer! - but only get one life in this game ^^; Some of the tracks I listen to below - pasted links only as embed was disabled (lame) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG9_2Q_IEAg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03oRFMXJU28 Read more about life in Tokyo in the A Week in Tokyo series or subscribe by RSS. Akihabara News - Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe) Japan Probe - Japan news and entertainment (Subscribe) Kirainet.com - A geek in Japan (Subscribe) View the full sized images/comments for this item at dannychoo.com >> Feel free to join/add Danny Choo and see what else the little bugger is up to in his other networks.      Categories: Otaku Culture
Toy Fair 2009: G.I.Joe: Resolute Animated Series UpdateToy Fair 2009: G.I.Joe: Resolute Animated Series Update
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Toy Fair 2009: G.I.Joe Series 5 Classic Vehicles UpdateToy Fair 2009: G.I.Joe Series 5 Classic Vehicles Update
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Toy Fair 2009: Disney and LEGO Group Announce Strategic Licensing RelationshipToy Fair 2009: Disney and LEGO Group Announce Strategic Licensing Relationship
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Wanted Dead Or Alive: Josh Randall (Steve McQueen) in 1:6 by Triad ToysFeaturing real leather holsters and belts, full metal bullets, full metal, functional spurs and an authentic likeness of Josh Randall (as played by Steve McQueen), Triad Toys are proud to debut the Wanted: Dead or Alive Josh Randall 12-inch figure! [previously teased] "A lot of development work went into Josh as we researched his rifle, the Winchester M'92 Mare's Leg extensively. All of his toysrevilnoreply@blogger.com0
Categories: Designer Toys, Toy News
Toy Fair 2009: Marvel Universe Secret Wars Comic 2-PacksToy Fair 2009: Marvel Universe Secret Wars Comic 2-Packs
Categories: Toy News
Lone Wolf & Cub (Kozure Okami) Action Figures from Triad ToysReleased in Japan in 1970 and spanning 28 volumes of manga, Lone Wolf and Cub quickly became one of the most beloved samurai tales of all time. Created by writer Koike Kazuo and artist Kojima Goseki, Lone Wolf and Cub (Kozure Okami) spawned numerous TV drama series, seven films, four plays and influenced numerous comics, films and video games. Triad Toys is proud to announce that it has entered toysrevilnoreply@blogger.com0
Categories: Designer Toys, Toy News
Highdy Plush by Purple Flavor x The Cut & Sew Project"Hi, my name is Highdy. I'm a special kind of leaf (wink wink.) Let's laugh for hours about nothing and munch on snacks. We can take a nap after that and then do stuff, also...Wait what was I saying? Hi, my name is Highdy..."When plushies get high - courtesy of Purple Flavor (makers of Sperm Plush) in a joint venture with The Cut and Sew Project (aka Shane Geil x Amy Vutiya). Measuring 11" x 11" toysrevilnoreply@blogger.com0
Categories: Designer Toys, Toy News
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