Jun 20
We’ve already brought you a few clips of Kenji Ishida’s
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Jun 19
It’s a great time for Lego: there’s going to be a movie based on the building bricks, and the company just announced its latest set. As a part of Lego’s Cuusoo project, fans are able to send in designs and ideas for future Lego sets, and the Mars Curiosity rover won this round, beating out
Jun 18
Quirky might be the world leader in developing crazy kitchen contraptions
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Jun 17
Power Wheels? Yeah right. The real upper-class twerps set their sights a little higher, and pester hedge-fund manager parents for something along this lines of this kids-only Porsche. "It’s oooooonly $900. Pretty please?"
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Jun 14
If you’re tired of your kids ramming their remote control vehicles into the walls in your house, there just might be a fix on the way that doesn’t involve padding your baseboards. A company has implemented emergency braking systems into prototype RC cars to have them automatically stop before they run head-on into a wall.
Jun 14
More and more vehicles are coming equipped with emergency braking systems that can stop a car before it hits something. And as CCP realized, the same technology could be just as useful with a remote control toy. After all, you’re putting an untrained, unlicensed kid in control of a small car that can seriously bang up your home’s walls and furniture.
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Jun 14
Houdini Puzzle Lock
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They say that Houdini is one of the greatest magicians ever alive (some prefer to use the term “illusionist”), and if you are a huge fan of his past work, you might be interested to know that Thinkgeek has something right up your alley with the $19.99 Houdini Puzzle Lock. If you are able to unlock these locks, you are a bona fide magician – at least among your family members and friends, that is.
Needless to say, you will only be able to open these locks only if you know the trick, and there are two choices to pick – Dead Lock and Lock & Key. Each purchase would come with two keys to go along with individual locks for that added security, just in case you know, you happen to pass one of these trick puzzle locks to a butterfingers. Definitely one of the more friendly approaches that you can take to amuse not only your friends, but your co-workers as well. Hopefully the Houdini Puzzle Lock comes with the relevant instructions to inform you on how you are going to unlock them.
[ Houdini Puzzle Lock copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
Jun 14
Takara Tomy A.R.T.S – Osushi Sentai “Syarider” – Sushi Transformers! Looking delicious! – International Tokyo Toy Show 2013
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We saw these interesting Sushi Transformers from Takara Tomy Arts at the International Tokyo Toy Show 2013.
It’s called the Osushi Sentai “Syarider”(“Syari” means “sushi rice” and “der (da)” means “is”) – “It is the sushi rice sushi ranger”…
They are a team of fighters facing risks to the sushi world and they consist of Tamago (egg), Ebi (shrimp), Toro (Tuna’s fatty part), Salmon, and Saba (mackerel).
Press the back of the sushi, and they will transform from Sushi Mode to Hero Mode.
Of course, there are peace-threatening bad characters as well. The top of the team is Anago (a kind of eel), executive member is Ikura (salmon roe), and other combatants Kappa-maki (cucumber roll), Natto-maki (natto roll), and Tekka-maki (tuna-roll).
The release day is TBD. It won’t be for a while yet.
Jun 13
Kitan Club – Capsule toy “Koppu no Fuchiko” – Tiny OL girl in cute poses hanging on the edge of a cup – International Tokyo Toy Show 2013
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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.
Jun 13
We went to the International Tokyo Toy Show at Tokyo Big Sight yesterday and had so much fun seeing all the cool characters, new releases and classic stuff. And playing with stuff!
Dominating the show were large Japanese toy makers Bandai and Takara Tomy, each of which had whole floors to themselves with huge displays, and endless stuff to look at. Other companies, including foreign companies, were there as well so there was a lot of cool stuff to see.
Please take a look at the pictures attached to this article to see some of the things that were there. 
We’ll also follow-up with some posts about a few of the things that we say that were pretty interesting…
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