Secret Base Mazinger Z + Devilman Mini FIgures

Here's a new look at Secret Base's popular line of mini figures. These are shots I recently took at the store.

Mazinger Z

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Secret Base Artist Project Devilman release event

Yesterday in Harajuku, a trio of stores sold a new batch of figures in the Secret Base Devilman Artist Project Line - with a chance at a bonus figure if you bought all six.

These four figures were sold at Secret Base:

Original

Secret Base

Pushead

Usugrow

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Real x Head Devilman tribute

A look at the finished Devilman tribute made by Real Head for the DZ40 show. The figure wasn't sold or displayed at the show, and no word yet on when/how it will be sold.

The figure features a new head sculpt on an older RxH adult body.

Frenzy Devilman up close

Here's a closer look at the Frenzy Devilman, released the other day at the DZ40 event.

I shot the figure at a Starbucks...

...which I soon realized was fortuitous, since the colors match perfectly with the uniforms of the Starbuckaroos. 

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Devilman Mazinger Z 40th Anniversary Event at Tokyo's Tokyo

2011 marked Kamen Rider's 30th anniversary. This year Devilman and Mazinger Z celebrate their 40th years running strong. And you know what anniversaries mean - special events and new toys!

Today at Tokyo's Tokyo, one of the newest spots on the indie toy circuit, a two-week event - called DZ40 - opened, featuring art, shirts, and toys related to the two mega franchises.

There's no other way to say it - the opening was chaos. The store is on the 5th floor of Tokyu Plaza, a glitzy new department store in Harajuku. Tokyo's Tokyo, along with most stores in the building, opens at 11:00. However, the Starbucks on the 6th floor opens at 8:30. You can see where this is going. Come 11:00 you had people descending on the store from every which direction, and they jumped on the pile of toys lack a pack of piranhas.

In a way, it was exciting to see so much enthusiasm over indie toys on a Friday morning. And there were a lot of toys to go around, with the exception of the Frenzy figure, which looked to be limited to 10 figures or less and disappeared instantly.

Event pics:

Medicom released two Devilman sofubi figures - each around 10" tall.

Exquisite new Mirock sculpt. They were sold via pre-order.

Frenzy's take on Devilman. Maybe my favorite Frenzy release to date.

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