Post 14152

Video game figurines take a walk on Pinky Street

By Jenni . July 3, 2008 . 12:36pm

The Pinky St. figurines have grown quite popular in Japan due to the adorable character designs, customization options and interchangable parts. They’ve even inspired PS2 (Mahoroba Stories) and DS games (Pinky St. Kira Kira Music Hour, Pinky St. Kira Kira Music Night). Some of the most popular Pinky St. releases, however, are versions of popular video game characters.

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Kotobukiya brings out DMC 4 Devil Bringer statue

By Spencer . May 14, 2008 . 9:23am

Kotobukiya, the company behind the plastic Final Fantasy summoned monsters and this awesome looking Shadow of Colossus statue, is working on more Devil May Cry figures. After Devil May Cry 3 became a hit they made Dante and Vergil toys,…

Post 10791

Putting together Final Fantasy VII Potion toys

By Spencer . March 7, 2008 . 9:16pm

Remember the Final Fantasy VII Potion? Last November Square Enix released a limited edition potion package, which consisted of a carbonated soft drink and a trading arts figure. I already talked about the taste of the potion, so I’m going…

Post 9775

Carry Super Mario Galaxy sounds in your pocket

By Spencer . February 1, 2008 . 3:32pm

Super Mario Galaxy recycles many sound effects from other Mario games. However, Nintendo added new chimes like hearing a star piece fall to the ground. New sounds means new sound drops! In May, Japan gets a series of eight keychain…

Post 9538

Wii: The plush edition

By Dan Zuccarelli . January 25, 2008 . 9:18am

  Tired of smacking your friends in the head with a wayward Wi-mote? Or worse yet that brand new HDTV? Maybe your kid hit you while playing Wii sports together. Well now there's an edition of the Wii that'll make it…

Post 9507

Big Daddy Damaged in Fight with Megatron: Reinforcements Arrive

By vysethebold . January 17, 2008 . 9:18pm

So Big Daddy was walking around on the kitchen table scoping out a giant container of ADAM for his Little Sister when all of a sudden Generation 2 Megatron popped out and said, "STFU! That's my energon, jerk!"  So he…

Post 9342

Custom Halo Transformer

By Dan Zuccarelli . January 9, 2008 . 9:20am

One part Halo, plus two parts awesome… and luckily no element of that turd of a summer movie (that's right I said it.. want a Transformers movie look no further than the 80's). This custom Transformer done up to look…

Post 9219

Super cute Final Fantasy miniatures return

By Spencer . January 2, 2008 . 1:18pm

Last year Square-Enix released the first set of tiny, designed-to-be cute series of Final Fantasy miniatures. Cloud, Vaan and Yuna were in the first batch of super deformed Tetsuya Nomura characters. The second round includes Tifa, Ashe, Basch, Auron and…

Post 9027

Shoot a larger core, the 1/60 Vic Viper

By Spencer . December 19, 2007 . 7:42pm

Tiny shmup figures are rad, but they don’t have the same amount of detail this Vic Viper scale model has. There is one catch. The model is from Konami’s anime series Sky Girls where the Vic Viper plays a prominent…

Post 8751

Mario Kart, no console required

By Spencer . December 7, 2007 . 12:20pm

Without the Mario Kart cars, Firedog’s Mario Kart Go! would be an ordinary figure eight track with a vertical bank. But it does come with toy Mario Kart cars and they look awesome. Maybe not, $89.95 awesome though. I suppose this…

Post 8609

Then there were five, Metal Gear Solid: 20th Anniversary figurines

By Spencer . November 30, 2007 . 11:42am

Konami doesn’t need to sell a million copies of Metal Gear Solid 4 on day one to make a profit. They can create other revenue streams by using the Metal Gear Solid license. Snake t-shirts and limited edition figures help pay…

Post 8582

Shoot the core! Shmup miniatures

By Spencer . November 29, 2007 . 4:04pm

Yujin is releasing a sweet set of ships from classic shmups. You can get the Vic Viper 301 from Gradius, the Silver Hawk from Darius Gaiden or my favorite the Arrowhead from R-Type with a force. I italicized can because…

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