Super Festival is celebrating its 25th anniversary. The most recent installment of the show was very well attended, which bodes well for the future. The biggest shift in the toy scene is the growing number of toy makers from Hong Kong who are having toys made in China using Japanese production methods. I'll say a bit more about that below.
Here is my 200+ pic report on the toy offerings from around 50 toy makers from Japan, England, China, the USA, and beyond. They brought goods made from sofubi, resin, keshi gomu, and other materials. For the pics, the booths are arranged alphabetically.
Akaisatsu Club
Much more after the jump:
Alieneyeland
Amapro
Astrozombies
Bean Sprouts
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| I had a nice chat with this Hong Kong toy seller. She told me that the factories making toys like this (and others) from Hong Kong are also producing toys for larger Japanese toy sellers. As I learned from other conversations at other booths, originally materials for sofubi toys would be made in Japan and then shipped to China. But now they're able to do all that in China and export the finished product to Japan. The quality is pretty good, and the cost is a fraction of what it costs to make them in Japan. My question is, since it costs less and less to make these toys (even in small quantities) these days, why do the prices keep going up? |
Big One Craft
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| Spectacular clear Silver Kamen with paper inserts, pipe cleaners, and light spray. The quality of clear toys these days is fantastic. |
Billiken
Black Seed
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| Another new Hong Kong seller. I like the creativity and infusion of fresh ideas with some of the new offerings we're seeing. But, like with many other indie toys. the cost will block out most collectors. These were sold by lottery. |
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| The person at the booth told me the pagoda can be expanded to make it taller. Very cool. |
Blackbook
Blobpus
Bullmark
CCP
Chara-Art
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| These beautiful prints are made on canvas. |
Chima Group
Comet Debris
Creative Design
Dune
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| Cool 8 bit Street Fighter T-shirts! |
Fewture Models
Galaxy Hunter
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| Nice selection of detailed keshi figures |
Grody Shogun
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| Painted by Luke. Sold by lottery. As I stood there. so many people got tickets that they ran out and had to make more! |
Hell Painter
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| Upcoming figure |
Jetturre and Dream Rockets
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| More fantastic canvas prints. I like this trend! |
Loaded
M-1
Marusan
Max Toy
Nerd One, Pop Soda, and Friends
One Up
Pico Pico and Sunguts
Rajireco
Samurai
Shikaruna
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| Shikaruna does everything well, including their packaging. |
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| Amazing quality on this sofubi Robby the Robot. The upper part is made of super clear vinyl. The bits on the ears are metal. |
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| Toys by Henry Anderson III |
Shirahama
Toy art Gallery and Uh Oh
Toys Street
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| Toys Street is another new seller from Hong Kong. |
Unbox Industries
Undead Toys
US Toys
Vintage and Vinyl Club
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| Consortium of sellers from Hong Kong. |
X-Plus
Yamanaya
Yamomark
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