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~!!

2008 is not over yet and tokidoki has already released a sneak glimpse of what’s to come in 2009 - the tokidoki Cocommando series! Unveiled at the STRANGEco’s booth @ the San Diego Comic Convention 2008 recently is the first from the series - Captain Coco! He looks quite sweet with his half-coconut helmet (big head!), checkered ‘camo’ uniform (check out the tokidoki logo badge of honor!) plus a gutsy grenade companion shaped like a pineapple.

(tokidoki Cocommandos - they don’t monkey around for sure!)

I’m loving every bit of the tropical references, and it’s only upon closer inspection that I realised Captain Coco is actually a monkey! Ahhhh… *hearts*

(tokidoki Cocommando packaging)

Wouldn’t it be great if Simone Legno actually made a tank that Cocommandos can fit in? We’ll be keeping our eyes glued for more news on the tokidoki Cocommando series and Captain Coco - so if you don’t want to miss out on the latest news about him, make sure you subscribe to our email updates today!

(via vinyl pulse and skepticism on Flickr)

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

We just took a short visit to Earth X and found out that they’re already retailing the tokidoki Mozzarella and SANDy plushies! They’re really cute (especially Mozzarella) and you can grab them at SGD$36 each.

In the meantime, I’ve gotten my hands on my pre-ordered tokidoki + Devilrobots PLUS Robots at last! Pictures and unboxing will follow once I’ve got some time on my hands to do them, but stay tuned nonetheless!

The San Diego Comic Convention 2008 starts this week and if you are going to be there, make sure you note these timings down. Simone Legno will be having autograph sessions at the various booths below.

tokidoki Booth
23 July (Wed) – 6:00 pm
24 July (Thurs)- 2pm to 5pm
25 July (Fri) - 2pm to 5pm
26 July (Sat) - 11am to 1pm

Other booths
24 July (Thurs) - 11am to 1pm (STRANGEco #4629)
26 July (Sat) -  4pm to 6pm (ToyTokyo #5237)
27 July (Sun) - 11am to 2pm (Kidrobot #4529)

For the rest of us who are not able to go to SDCC (like me…) check out our little poll on the right side of the site where you can vote for which tokidoki toy you would want to get at the event! At the moment the tokidoki Geisha is leading the way - it’s all for a bit of fun so just join in!

(via tokidoki)