Continuing with more tokidoki news elsewhere in the world - take note our dear Australian readers (or anyone who’s in Australia now reading this)! The tokidoki Concept Store, in Brisbane, will be having an official launch next Tuesday 16 September at 6pm (thanks to reader Arthouse Jo for reminding us)! Grab your invites from the Barcode stores (Surfers Paradise and Fortitude Valley) so that you won’t miss out on the launch action!

P.S. Benny from Tenacious Toys has also written in to let us know that you can also preorder tokidoki Bulletto from their store now. I have already done my preorder here with EarthX - can’t wait for tokidoki Bulletto to arrive~!!

We’ve seen sneak peeks into the upcoming tokidoki Stationery, tokidoki Apparel (tees, hoodies and more!) as well as the super coveted tokidoki + Skullcandy headphones. What about the toys? Well, after the madness that was SDCC 2008 - us Tokidokizens have spotted a few photos of the tokidoki Tigers taken by fellow tokidoki lovers! Whilst we haven’t gotten our grubby claws on them yet, the tokidoki Tigers are already available (even here in Asia) so make sure you get down to your local store to get one (or four)!

Then there’s my favourite - tokidoki Bulletto (spelt with a double T btw)! We just spotted that Panik’s Toy Box (USA) has already listed Bulletto on their site for preorder. They also have a little blurb on him as well:

Mozzarella’s new boyfriend Bulletto is a tough one when it comes to providing protection for weak kids in the schoolyard. Legend claims that he used to be a bully himself, but switched sides after meeting his beloved Mozzarella. It was love at first sight, and now he runs with the nicer gang, The Moofia. Bulletto carries a powerful shotgun and comes with two special bullet companions, too!

*hearts* I want my tokidoki Bulletto now!

The San Diego Comic Convention has started and we at Tokidokizens are trawling the WWW to find out how’s the event like on the ground. If you are lucky enough to be able to go for the event, drop us a comment here to let know! In the meantime, here’s our pick of what tokidoki toys you should get your hands on at the SDCC 2008!

NOT TO BE MISSED! tokidoki Toys at the SDCC 2008

I can write about this to death… but you absolutely have to get your hands on the Silver version of tokidoki Bulleto! *hearts*

Our little poll on our sidebar shows that this is THE toy that most of you would go for at the SDCC and I totally agree! Irresistable and beautiful with the Japanese graphics, how can you not get the tokidoki Geisha?

I personally prefer getting the tokidoki Kaniza over the Dunny or even the rest of the Silver range of Cactus Pups or Sabochan as it’s something we’ve not seen previously.

Finally the new arrival - the tokidoki Tiger in 4 colours! They will be released for sale at the SDCC itself so it’s definitely the best time to get your hands on them… =D

Read about the tokidoki SDCC 2008 exclusive releases here:

• tokidoki Tiger | TTF Preview
• tokidoki Silver Bulleto, Silver Sabochan and Silver Cactus Pups
• tokidoki + Tokyo Plastic Geisha | Packaging
• tokidoki Kaniza
• tokidoki 8″ Dunny

As the San Diego Comic Convention 2008 draws closer and closer, we’re beginning to see more and more of the tokidoki goodies that will be released at the show itself. Us Tokidokizens are besides ourselves today (okay it’s only me) because we found out that the goodie basket has only just began to open with STRANGECo releasing their slew of tokidoki toys-to-lust-after!

SILVER TOKIDOKI BULLETO!!

OMGGGGGGGG……… I really, really, really want this. The standard version will be out by the end of the year but give me Silver Bulleto anytime! This is super limited (only 250 pieces) so… make sure you get your hands on one!

SILVER TOKIDOKI CACTUS GIRLS + CACTUS DOGS

Love the grey patches on Sabochan! Bastardino looks quite solid here and Polpettina is always sweet~! I’m sure we all have SANDy now…

SILVER TOKIDOKI CACTUS PUPS

Check out the little silver Cactus puppies! Awwwww…

If you’re going to be at the SDCC 2008, make sure you visit the STRANGEco booth (4629) as Simone Legno will be signing on 24 July (Thursday) from 11am to 1pm. I think he’ll have his hands full this year with so many items at the show!

(via vinyl-pulse and STRANGECo)

Read about the tokidoki SDCC 2008 exclusive releases here:

• tokidoki Tiger
• tokidoki + Tokyo Plastic Geisha | Packaging
• tokidoki Kaniza
• tokidoki 8″ Dunny

We at Tokidokizens has had a big, big night yesterday with the start of the Singapore Comic and Toy Convention’s Preview Night. In fact we only got home after midnight and I only managed to grab some sleep at 3am (it’s now 8am in Singapore as I’m typing this out) right after transferring the enormous amount of photographs that we took during the show. So here’s sneak peek at what we saw (and what you can expect) at the STCC 2008!

(Simone talking with Pete Fowler)

The event started with the Walk of Fame artists putting their illustrations on a blank STCC wall at the main entrance. We saw Devilrobots, Pete Fowler, Mori Chack together with Simone Legno, all drawing and creating the characters that made them famous. Very colourful and is definitely a ‘photo-op’ area you cannot miss!

We then rusheddd to the tokidoki booth (located on the left side of the event hall) and to our delight, it wasn’t a very small booth at all! Check out the graphics!

They will be selling past seasons of the US tokidoki collection (namely the tees and hoodies etc) together with tokidoki caps, a couple of tokidoki + LeSportsac bags at pretty reasonable prices (we think…) and you get either a tokidoki uchiwa or 3 tokidoki stickers with every purchase. The uchiwas and stickers can also be purchased by themselves of course.

Even though Simone was pretty jet-lagged and he was kinda like the ONLY person at his booth for a good half hour (which we felt was kinda weird… where are his helpers?), he was very, very accommodating to requests for photos and we managed to get him to sign some of the tokidoki items we brought along.

After dinner (yes we need the energy to continue our quest!), we returned to the event hall to check out what was going on at the other booths (and keeping an eye out for tokidoki stuff!). StrangeCo set up their booth right across from tokidoki’s and they do have majority of the tokidoki vinyl toys AND the exclusive platinum tokidoki SANDy ($60)! That’s where the fun (and assault on our minds and wallets) begun..

(tokidoki + Devilrobots Plus Robots seen at the Play Imaginative’s booth)

(tokidoki Taberon seen at the Toy Store - *gulps*)

THEN we spied something that I think is going to be UBER-COVETED… it’s tokidoki on Devilrobots’ Tofu! Ahhhh we want!!

(tokidoki Tofu seen at Devilrobot’s booth - TOO CUTE!!)

In order to withstand the temptation of all these toys, we then proceeded to our next venue, Butter Factory, where the Live Mural Art event was going to be held. A total of four panels, Pete Fowler took one, Shin from Devilrobots, Touma and Mori Chack took two (they combined them together) and Simone took the rightmost one.

The completed artwork - Rocker Cactus Girl is so cool!!

Before I end this post (and start preparing to go for another day of the convention + more tokidoki), here’s a shot of Simone’s tokidoki Onitsuka Tiger sneakers that we shot - UV light was an accident but it looks really cool!

Alrightes, see you at the convention again!