Superfestival 54

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:

Also blind bagged:

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: