For a long time I didn’t care for Minimates or Kubrick collectibles, but after picking up an Asuka and Rei Kubrick from Toy Tokyo earlier this year they slowly grew on me.

Check out the pictures (the best part) below.

Check below for pictures of the XS shirt I picked up at the event and for pictures from the event itself head over to Unkommon Kolor’s blog (credit to UNKO for the picture of me with my shirt above) and Fur Face Boy’s blog.

Miss out on last weekend’s event? You’re not going to be able to get one of the collab shirts now, but Fur Face Boy is having a party to celebrate the release of his 2011 summer line this Saturday at 5PM at Shogun in Fort Worth. I’ll be stopping in to check out the new line and staying long enough to eat some of the free ice cream.

kidrobot serves up their figures in blind boxes so you don’t know what you’re getting until you open them. I’ve picked up six of these figures so far, four from Boomerang Comics in Lewisvile and two from Atama which is located inside Centre in Mockingbird Station in Dallas.

Out of the six I picked up I got:
2x White Ryu
1x Blue Ken
1x Blue Dhalsim
1x Vega
1x Green Guile

Check them out below and be sure to pick yours up soon if you want them. I can’t imagine these being around for too long before they’re all gone! Anyone have an extra Chun-Li?

It’s very much a toy store lifted straight out of Japan and dropped into the center of Manhattan. It goes without saying that when I went back to NYC earlier this month I had to come back to Toy Tokyo. Jump below for pictures of Toy Tokyo’s storefront and the toys I picked up during my visit.

If you ever find yourself in NYC or you live there and haven’t gone to Toy Tokyo you’ve got to check this place out. They’re located at 91 2nd Ave (in the East Village between 5th and 6th street).

First two photos of Toy Tokyo’s storefront are photos from moldie13‘s Flickr. I didn’t have the foresight to take any pictures of the store itself.

Included with my order was a handwritten note and illustration from Trung as well as various brand stickers. I thought that was all there was until I dug deeper into the package. Also included were an Aipom Pokemon card, a Yu-Gi-Oh card, a Necrosha X leaflet, and a small Avengers poster. Who told them I was a Marvel fanboy? Probably no one. Miscellaneous items like this are half the fun in supporting small clothing brands.

Daft Bomb is printed on an American Apparel tee. I’m pretty sure it’s the fitted 2001 tee, but I could be wrong. The only words I can use to describe this shirt are “spectacularly awesome” and not even they do the shirt justice. Loyal K.N.G. can expect my business again in future.

Listen to Das Racist. Eat Das Racist.

I’m on my phone, or maybe my Game Boy, in the foreground. Guile is laid back enjoying himself in the background.

This is my second order with Fangamer. My first was the MOTHER 3 Handbook which I preordered several months before it was even printed and released. I’ve visited the Fangamer store every now and then since that order, but I’m always too late on the products I really want. Most notable was Shirtness. I hope they reprint Shirtness in the future. I really want NEED one. As soon as I saw the two shirts from this post in my size I had to get them. Carted. Bought. No missing the boat this time.

Every Fangamer order comes with a piece of art from someone within the Fangamer community. Not only that, but most of their products also come with an accompanying pin, sticker, keychain, or some combination of the former. The Bitboy tee came in its own special packaging made to look like an original Game Boy with the shirt’s size displayed on the screen.

Bitboy is printed on a 50% cotton / 50% polyester American Apparel BB401 tee. Chiptunes and retro mobile gaming on your chest! What more is there to say?

Bound Around is printed on a 100% cotton fitted American Apparel 2001 tee. Go green with Ness and friends! The story of Earthbound is told on this shirt without a word.

No text description can replace seeing the shirts themselves so point your eyes below. It should go without saying, but quality is never an issue when it comes to Fangamer’s offerings.

A small clip from Johannes Nyholm’s upcoming short film “Las Palmas.” There isn’t much information available other than what you see in the trailer and a few pictures on Johannes’s Facebook page, but this clip shows a lot of promise.

Hilarious idea, ready for the full film to be released.