Wonder Festival 2013 (Summer) / ワンダーフェスティバル 2013 (夏) - Cosplay

 A look at some of the creative cosplay for this year's Summer Wonder Festival.

Quite a number of show-all outfits at the event.

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Wonder Festival 2013 (Summer) / ワンダーフェスティバル 2013 (夏) - Indie Toys

Welcome to Kaiju Korner's mega post for the 2013 Summer Wonder Festival. In 250 photos, we cover booths from one end of the hall to the other. Sections are arranged in alphabetical order. Click on each photo to see its full size.

Angel Abby

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Ilu Ilu x Battle Aid Toy x Wrestling Event

Tonight's event was truly like no other I've ever attended. It's also the most fun I've ever had in Japan. Where else can you get new toys, meet up with friends, and run like hell to avoid being dismantled by flying wrestlers???

The event, called Battle Aid, was held at 1st Ring in Shinkiba.

Let's start with a look at the toys.

Ilu Ilu brought four versions of his new wrestling characters, which were designed and made for this event.

These sets are called Dynamic Fight and feature the characters Wild Cross and Great Ozeki.

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Kaiju Mashup 2013 show

Kaiju Mashup 2013 is an ongoing show featuring customs by GUUMON, Blobpus, Max Toy, and MVH. The show is running at the Design Festa Gallery in Harajuku through July 27.

Here are some shots of the many great works for sale.

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SDCC 2013: Godzilla Encounter

To build up excitement for the upcoming Godzilla movie (2014 release), Legendary Pictures went to great lengths to deck out an offsite building in San Diego for fans to check out. Time stamped tickets were distributed at the LP booth in the con.

The site was something of an homage to previous Godzilla films, along with some tantalizing looks at what the creature will look like in the new film. That part was absolutely off-limits to photography, so all I can share is a look at the first part of the exhibit.

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SDCC 2013: Cosplay

There were hundreds (maybe thousands) of cosplayers walking the halls of SDCC 2013. That included an amazing variety of outfits from old, new, famous, and obscure TV shows, movies comics, anime, manga, and many other sources.

Here's a sampling of the cosplayers who caught my eye:

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Interview with Metacrypt at SDCC 2013

Hateball and Brian talk about their new toy: Shub Zeroth. Plus random SDCC shenanigans!

SDCC 2013: More indie toys

Le Merde: video game maestro

 Grab bag of the rest of our SDCC 2013 indie toy coverage.

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SDCC 2013: Bwana Spoons and Friends

Bwana and friends at SDCC.

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SDCC 2013: Cardboard Spaceship - Circus Posterus

Cardboard Spaceship booth with lots of Circus Posterus releases.

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SDCC 2013: Toy Tokyo

Toy Tokyo booth at SDCC.

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SDCC 2013: 3D Retro

3D Retro booth had a lot of signings, with Gary Baseman, Kozik, Paul Kaiju, and others.

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SDCC 2013: Dragatomi

Dragatomi's booth at SDCC.

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SDCC 2013: Rotofugi

Rotofugi had some nice customs and releases this year.

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SDCC 2013: Pushead @ Toy Tokyo event

Pushead brought an amazing selection of figures to this year's SDCC, including new versions of classic Pushead sofubi figures, collabs, and even a new figure!

Pre-event previews:

Pus x Nag!

Pus x HS!

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SDCC 2013: Super7

Super7 came out swinging this year, with its Alien ReAction figures and a grip of new vinyl releases.

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SDCC 2013: Lulubell

Tons of different toy makers had stuff at the Lulubell booth this year.

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SDCC 2013: Interview with Brian Flynn about Super7's Alien ReAction figures

I stopped by Super7's booth to talk with their owner, Brian Flynn, about the new Alien ReAction figures. Brian talks about how this dream-come-come project came together.

SDCC 2013: Gargamel

Customs:

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