Super Festival 71 / スーパーフェスティバル 71

 

At the latest installment of Super Festival, a huge number of toy makers sold figures made from sofubi, resin, and other materials. Many shared booths, maximizing the number of makers who could attend. In addition to new and familiar faces, we saw others who haven't attended the show in a while, as well as some exhibitors from overseas. It was quite a gathering of toy makers!

By and large, most exhibitors had a limited number of things on hand or on display, with exceptions like CCP and Fewture Models. But there was such a variety and so many booths that the total number of releases was substantial.

It was a balmy, drizzly spring morning, and the event's location in central Tokyo was almost pastoral (a word rarely used to describe the city).

To get to the event site, you go up a little hill and through this massive gate, which was once an entrance to an Edo period castle.

Despite the light rain, many of the toy faithful were in line before 7:00 AM.

Here are the toy makers in attendance, arranged in alphabetical order.

Acro

 240 photos after the jump:

Al Gangu, AK Art, Uncut

The display card on the right is a nice homage to Bandai's Horror World keshi gomu gacahapon line from the 1980s.

Amapro

It's been quite a while since we've seen Amapro. I told him the fans wanted to see a return of Pachi Summit!

 Angel Abby

This was a popular booth.

Astro Zombies

Big One Craft

New outfit with a seasoned toy maker. If I'm not mistaken, it is replacing Kaiju Ken.

Billiken

Blobpus

Awesome Blobpus x Jetture collab. No release details yet.

 Bullmark

Butanohana

Bwana Spoons

Bwana was one of many overseas artists who flew over for the event. Pushead and Namaniku were among the others who made the trip.

CCP

Cometdebris

Dan

Dream Rockets

Gorgeous custom figures and handmade jackets.

Cause for major drooling...

Dune

Elegab

Fewture Models

Fig Lab

Galaxy People

Foundation X

These are made from resin kits.

Unpainted kits

Gargamel, Mitari, and Namaniku

Namaniku

Gigabrain

Hell Painter

Hello Mad

The figure is called Douroder. I like the funky appendages. They remind me of 1970s bootleg plastic models.

Jetture and Handsome Tarom

Kaizer Pro

Kamakiri

Kurumi

Lulubell

Mai Nagamoto

Marusan

Dart game prizes

 Max Toy

Mimizu Garage

Mount Ebo and Gumtaro

Nira's Shinobukai

Display only

 Pico Pico and Sunguts

PP Pudding

Another toy maker we haven't seen at this event for a while.

Rampage Toys

Samurai Doll and Chima Group

Science Patrol

Shikaruna

Sio

Spice Seed

T9G

Undead Toys and Geek Market

US Toys

X-Plus

 Yamakichi and Black Book Toy

Yamanaya

Yamomark