OK, now I know what I wanna for Christmas: the ASTACO (Advanced System with Twin Arm for Complex Operation). This machinge god has been developed by Hitachi in 2005 to respond to diverse application requirements of heavy-duty machines. A special feature of the ASTACO is its ability not only to make complex actions, such as cutting an object while holding it, pulling an object while holding other things, and bending long objects, but also delicate actions such as holding soft, fragile objects. This feature allows the ASTACO to operate in various fields, including recycling and handling dangerous articles, and rescuing people at disaster sites.
Ok, maybe the Tomica toy that reproduces the real ASTACO (realeased on August 15th) will be easier to get from my Sexy Santa...


via b1.robot.am (my new favourite blog!)

Modellismo HobbyMedia spotted a new Tamiya Mini4wd dedicated to Rin and Len from Vocaloid 2 fame!
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Few days ago our friend Julie (Japanese photographer and sexy idol) has posted an old Atari balsa airplane promotional toy on her Beside Games Blog.
(as always, If you visit her page, please don't forget to click many times on the score button!)

Kotobukiya has released the LeiFang PVC figure from the DOAX2 Venus on the beach! series.

(via Mixi) PaPETCH, the toy series that debuted last week as preregisteration present with he Nights for Wii, is celebrating Christmas with this super cute Santa. I really like these toy series created by Norishirocks (a japanese collective of DJs, designers and musicians (sax, oboe, guitar, synthesizer, percussions and violin) "with phantasmagorical" members who take  care of music production, remix and CD jackets design, video production, advertising, etc.).





Some Norishirocks works: "Sergeant KERORO" theme song remix / "GUNDAM SEED DISTNY" theme song remix / HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR jacket art work producing / All Japan Goith art work & remixes hide2 (Tokyo/jp).
 The producer / DJ is playing aound the world his funky house...  and the Norishiroks live set (with synth, sax and violin) is a regular guest of the LOVE LOVE NIGHT@Yellow (one of the most famous Tokyo clubs). Norishocks is also involved in rhythm videogames development...

A Japanese toy otaku has created a customized version of Kaiyodo Danboard figure thanks to Miracle Deka and gashapon Wii Console, Wiimote and games from "Wii real figure Collection". I'm sure that if he would sell the printed custom decals for the original Kaiyodo's figure he could make a lot of Yen! When I see works like this I think that if Andy Warhol were alive  he would be an otaku artist with a studio in akiba doing things like this customized  toy...




Meme Linking Update (12 dec): Today this news popped up in several Japanese blogs and news aggregators like NewAkiba and Revoltech Express. The only Japanese site that gave us credit is News Walker Net that actually linked us a couple of days. ago. Arigatou gozaimashita News Walker!!
 

Mizuno Junko  has  just  started a collaboration with Kid Robot and this is Keiko the Director (from the pages of  Pure Trance manga book) one of the figures produced in collaboration with the american toy shop...
If you want to discover Junko psychedelic/dark/ero/kawaii world you should take a look to this fansite: Miznotic Phantasy.

Today is December 1st and in a couple of week Square Enix will release Chocobo's Dungeon so what's better than these new Christmas Chocobo plushes?

This is the first Nendoroid (from GoodSmile company) dedicated to out beloved Miku chan! (from Hobby Japan January 2008  issue)

(Update 25/11) Akibablog got a great post about Miku Nendoroid.

This is the very first Amazon Japan customized toy. It will be relaeased on first December for 2200 yen (ca  13 euros). This collectors toy is a customization of original Revoltech Dunboard figure (on sale on J-List), from the manga Yotsuba,  produced by Kaiyodo and designed by Azuma Kiyohiko (of Azumanga Daioh fame) and Yotsuba Sutazio.