Super Festival 68 / スーパーフェスティバル 68

The 68th installment of the venerable Super Festival show showed an impressive surge in new toys, toy makers, and strong attendance. All told, there were around 50 toy makers at SF 68 - some with their own booths, and some sharing booths.

The show was so overflowing that (for the first time I've seen it) a separate side room was opened for a Super Art Toy area. That was basically a group of indie toy makers (including Art Junkies, T9G, Onion Fight and others) who banded together to exhibit side by side. I'm not sure if that was a one-off event or if we'll see it at future shows.

Here's my SF 68 report, which is fairly pic heavy (230+ shots). Makers are alphabetized:

Aimodo

 Much more after the jump:

Art Junkies

Billiken

Black Book Toy

New Ron English toy. This one is pretty huge!

 Bullmark

CCP

Creative Design

Devilrobots

Dune

Enigma

Upcoming figure, which will be made in sofubi.

The face is interchangeable.

Alternate head

Fewture Models

Galaxy People

Wings are hand cut and carefully applied to the figure. Cool concept.

Gigabrain

Grody Shogun and Science Patrol

This figure, designed by Miscreation Toys, is based on a character from the 1930s film Phantom Creeps.

Hukahori Takanoli

Ilu Ilu

A highlight of the show was Ilu Ilu's new release: Commander Victor in the new Techno Loaders line.

Commander Victor's packaging is definitely pro level. The printing is done at a factory. There is an inner and outer box.

Each robot has 8 points of articulation. Helmets are removable. Visors rotate. The figure comes with a sword that slots into a scabbard built into the back of the figure. The torso can be removed to reveal a slot for two mini boxes. (I will have many more photos in a future post.)

Each version of Commander Victor comes with 4 minis. Each is articulated, with up to four parts per mini.

 

Ilu Ilu also sold posters that came with random minis. The super micro figure is about 1 cm tall.

Sakaguchi-san draws his images by hand and paints them in acrylic. He then scans them into a computer and does color adjustments digitally.

 

Jet x Some

New mini Kai Thunder

More minis

Kaiju Ken

Kenth Toy Works

King of Jinx

Kto Kto

Maon vs Markaro

Marusan

Marusan welcomed a legendary TV and movie composer: 渡辺 宙明 (Chumei Watanabe). Watanabe-san wrote the music for Kikaider, Inazuman, and many other shows.

Mitari

Gargamel micros

The micros combine to form a larger figure. Very cool.

Monster Made

Nerd One

Newter Vision

Onion Fight

Pushead

Rampage Toys

RESTORE

Upcoming figure

Another new figure from RESTORE

Roughneck Toys

Ryuca

 

Shamrock Arrow

Shikaku

Shikaruna

Shoko Nakazawa

Sunguts and Pico Pico

T9G

Undead Toys

US Toys

Vignette

New Healey Made sofubi figure: Quackula - produced in conjunction with Gargamel

X Plus + Star Ace

Yamanaya

Yamomark + Blobpus

In a follow-up Super Festival report, I will be taking an in depth look at Iru Iru's new Techno Loader toys.