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Now you can enjoy your favorite Italian plumber in all three dimensions with this 3D printed original Super Mario figure. It’s a me, Super Mario in 3D. No glasses required.

Designed by 0fps, this 3D printed action figure represents the old school pixelated Mario from the original Super Mario Bros. game. Basically anyone who grew up playing these games must have this figure. It sells for $31.18(USD) when printed in color as shown here, but you can also order him in a variety of other materials, including metals.

Now if we can just get a few more characters to go with him, our desktop Mushroom Kingdom will be complete.

[via This Is Why I’m broke]

Check out this awesome Star Wars toy for rich kids. This life-sized Stormtrooper is coming soon from Gentle Giant. It stands nearly six-feet-tall and is a replica of the original Kenner Stormtrooper toy. It even has the same articulation, so you can pose this thing just like the original.

It was scanned from a mint-condition 3 3/4″ figure and enlarged to life size. This Stormtrooper also comes with an authentic re-scaled blaster. I only wish that I had room for this amazing figure in my home.

You can pre-order it now for $2,300(USD) and it will ship around Q3 2014. This guy is NOT a little short for a Stormtrooper. He’s just the right size.

[via Nerd Approved]

While Slave Leia has been the official sex symbol of the Star Wars franchise for three decades, she’s about to get a run for her money from her own mother, Padmé Amidala.

Yes, what you’re looking at is the Queen herself, devoid of ridiculous headgarb or facepaint – instead dressed in a skintight snowsuit, fringed with fur and slinky tall snow boots. Reow-reow. You’re looking good there, Mom.

The 10-1/2″ tall, hand-painted collectible figure was inspired by painting by Adam Hughes called Snowbunny Padme (sans Yoda) and is coming in a limited-edition from Gentle Giant. You can pre-order your own Snowbunny Padme statue over at Entertainment Earth for $248.99(USD) – though you’ll have to wait until June 2014 to enjoy her up close and personal.

Yesterday we went to International Tokyo Toy Show 2013 and found so many Gashapon machines (also called Gachapon or Gacha Gacha) there. Gashapon means capsule toys and the machine works like this: Insert about ¥100-¥400 (price is different depending on a toy) to the machine and turn the handle and then you will get a small toy in a capsule.

Gashapon is usually used for something fun mainly for kids. When kids got a small amount of money from their parents, they run to the Gashpon machines and compete to collect as many toys as possible with their friends. However, recently it’s been changing. There are more different varieties of toys out there that adults can enjoy, which tickle adult collectors’s hearts, for example, detailed figures of anime that adults got really involved with when they were younger such as Gumdam and Dragonball.

Now I would like to introduce one of the currently most popular and interesting capsule toys. It’s “Koppu no Fuchiko”. Fuchiko is an OL that stands for “Office Lady” meaning female office worker in Japanese. It’s a tiny girl’s figure, whose name is Fuchiko, that you can hang at the edge of a cup. She holds several different poses in her OL uniform and for some rare ones she is in bikinis. People love the adorable way she looks and funny poses, and they say that she heals their fatigue.

One Gashapon for “Koppu no Fuchiko” costs only 200 yen, however it’s being sold in more expensive prices in auction sites.

New series (6 models and 1 secret model) will be out in mid-June and fans will go crazy for collecting all of the new models including the secret model again.

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