Recent Products and Preorders

Back in the day, toy stores sold self-contained handheld maze games where a metal ball was moved from point A to point B. The toys were cheap, easy to break, and good enough to keep the attention of the kids while mom did the laundry or burned the roast.

Organic Hobby has announced new Biohazard figures which ship in a couple of months. Six figures are on offer...

Preorders for the Japanese NDS import Blue Dragon Plus will ship on September 4, 2008.

When Wayne Newton (a noted Las Vegas crooner) performs on stage, he has a move where he points at no one in particular in the audience. No one knows why he does it. He just does.

Kanu Unchou of Ikki Tousen fame is a popular subject for toy sculptors and their corporate overlords. The reasons are fairly evident but we'll list them anyway..

As if there wasn't already a surfeit of love for Kanu Unchou, toy manufacturer Kurushima has also started preorders for a limited edition 1/6 scale Kanu cold cast that will be distributed exclusively by Miyazawa Mokei.

PS3 Initial D: Extreme Stage is based on Initial D Arcade Stage 4 which was originally built on Sega's Lindbergh coin-op hardware.

Last summer, NCS imported Juicy Tomatoes from Japan which were indestructible.

Toy sculptors have generally given Kanu Unchou a short leash when molding her from scratch. She's either in a battle stance, a stoic pose, or more recently, in a passive position.