
On a beautiful fall day in Tokyo, the monsters came out to play....in serious force. Today's Superfestival was a fantastic show - an amazing gathering of toy fans, creators, collaborators, and special guests. There were debut releases of new figures, collabs between Western and Eastern designers, as well as mashups, one-offs, and new versions of venerable favorites. Figures were cast in sofubi, resin, clay, PVC, and who knows what else.
Bringing it all together was a great vibe as collectors, creators, and collaborators hung around the booths and talked toys. Hell, I even discovered there's a dirt cheap restaurant in the basement that isn't half bad!
Exit preamble - on to the good stuff.
Intrepid collectors there at 8:30 AM had a shot at scoring exclusive figures outside the con:



Doors opened at 10:30. There were a ton of new releases and exclusives.
Atelier G-1:


Billiken:


New Billiken figure:

Cord Viper:



Cosmo Knight Alpha:

Dr Strangetoys:

Dream Rockets:




Fig Lab and friends:





Ilanena:
These were sold as a set. The colors represent every base color used for every Dai Kaiju Card Monsters release. Nice!

Kikkake:


Kumon:


Marmit:


Marusan:

Max Toy Co and friends:

Love this new Dead Presidents figure!


Nerd One:

This was a display only mashup:

Pico Pico:



Popsoda:



Real Head:
These were sold blind bagged:

Cool new Mirock versions:

Refreshment Toys:

Shikaruna:
I was stoked to see them bring some one-off kaiju figures in addition to figures from the new anime line:





Spooky Parade:

Spooky Parade x Nerd One (the extra head and other parts are resin):

Sunguts:

Uamou:


US Toys:


Velocitron:
This was the debut release of this set:



Debut release of Lash's Ollie (quickly sold out!)


Ilanena paint version:

Yamomark:


Besides all the great sofubi, Superfest is also a fantastic place to pick up new and old toys. There were dozens of stocked dealer tables carrying everything from vintage plush to diecast figures.
Here's a sampling of the tables, a few folks who popped by for the show, and, hey, what's a toy show without some cosplay:






4 comments:
Awesome coverage!
:D :D :D :D :D
I'm really liking the
Onell & RealxHead
Pheyaos prototype head
and the black Eyezon
customized by Dream Rocket.
I think I've been up and
down the entire set of
photos 4 or 5 times.
Thanks for such a great
review of the event, Andy B
Thanks dude. It was an awesome show!
Hey Andy, thanks for the great photo coverage. Almost like being there.
Bob
Thanks Bob! Always a pleasure to hear from you.
andy
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