Today in Singapore, there was a Toy Carnival held at our Arts Museum; also known as the Toy Carnival @ S.A.M (Singapore Arts Museum). Unable to resist the notion of seeing many toy consolidated all at one place other than at Toys R’ Us, I decided to make a trip down.
Being a lazy ass and having taken lots of photos, I shall just post the photos here with some comments below each bunch!
Toys, through these doors!
Saw a Kamen Rider on my way in
Toy soldiers of the 21st century
Nendos Kagamiku and Light!
TK8316; but not in his Stormtrooper armor
Spawn and some random figures, damm this human crowd blocking me >_<!
I see Ingis and Lily
Starwars stuff
AUTOBOTS! follow moi
Lost WW2 German officer
Mike from Mikelz, whose shop was closed when I covered the “Singapore Otaku” post. He sells mostly Mecha stuff (which would probably cause Snark to wet himself if he where here.) Just look at that Gundam collection.
The only thing I would have gotten, but I decided not to.
Also, notice how a Queen’s Blade figure is hidden in that wall of boxes behind. Obviously to keep out of reach of the little children who are here today ^^
Awesome oil paintings
Kamen Rider and showing off his stuff
I should have looked more at this store. I really liked some of the cats!
No toy carnival is complete without Prime. He has to be here, even if it means appearing in a very vulnerable medium.
Comics and more comics
Plastic transformers repainted with metal paint I think
Apparently Transformers > Terminator so the Terminator doesn’t get his own glass container
The days of predator is overshadowed by the Transformers and Terminators
Captain Planet Ironman
Even a Dark Jedi can get stuck in a mug
Familiar movie faces
Starts with P
Starts with E
WHY SO SERIOUS?
Predator is hungry
Many many people
Some interesting gun game. Apparently everyone seems to be unable to hit any of the targets
These are edible
Did I mention that the crowd kept blocking me because I am short?
This is blasphemy. Haruhi figmas not placed in front?!
If I had $200 with me… That Alice….
The empire says HI
The LEGO booth seemed to have the best sales. Probably because parents thought that LEGO are cheaper and better than other toys.
Level 2 was equally as crowded, but the lighting here was 5x worse
More comics here. Nice frames!
More Gunpla and other stuffs
Oh, look. One of them clone troopers have fallen. Trying to do a toy story escape?
EVEN more Starwars stuffs
And more figmas again. Apparently there seem to be only these few figmas around. What happened to the Drossels and the newer ones?
This figure is disturbing
Mountains and Mountains of boxes
Cute girls in boxes at last ^^
Not cute guys in boxes
The booth that sells Be@ruicks
Movie Mania booth. They have everything related to any blockbuster movie
Another good look at the 501st legion booth which was up the stage and had this barrier >_<!
Awesome trip ^^
Although I went alone since no other comrades seemed free, I had a blast walking around taking pictures! I wanted to pose my Nendos around, but the crowd just wasn’t too ideal for that. I would have ended up blocking people anyway. There were many booths there and I got quite a number of name cards. It was a little too crowded to my liking but the Art Museum was small to begin with.
Lucky I did not see anything that would have tempted me to take out my wallet, though the Imoko was really a close one ^^
Did not manage to see comrades Yuki-to and B-Mecha though they went too!
Anything in the above pictures that perks your interest?
< ![CDATA[yep, the middle one is gordon alrite!
omg, never expected so many people to be there lol! so difficult to search for someone with black bag and carrying a dslr XD
was meeting another friend after that, so I left before I could find u =P]]>
< ![CDATA[AAHHHH~ So busy with my assignment that i completely forgot about this event. T.T
I were there, i may get myself some re-ment stuff and extra figma for playing. T.T]]>
< ![CDATA[You have so many nice photos, the details, lighting are so much better than mine T__T. what camera you are using?
btw, I'm 168cm tall... but i got long arms like orang utan, so i can hold the camera phone high and snap ;p]]>
< ![CDATA[Mikelz is his name? Now all I have to do is find out where he lives, kill him and steal his stuff.]]>
< ![CDATA[droooll.... -.-"
lol@blashpemy
Probably because everyone is trying to clear the overstocked (or slow moving) Figma items? Same thing seems to be happening here..]]>
< ![CDATA[Hey. your photo are nicely taken. Using SLR? Most of my photo doesn't turn out that well. I link your this entry over at my blog for more people to get to read about the event review if that is alright with you. :)]]>
< ![CDATA[I am disappointed. There were no Alien merchandise with the Predator merchandise? :(]]>
< ![CDATA[I wish Brunei had this kinda carnival! =/]]>
< ![CDATA[did u guys see gordon?]]>
< ![CDATA[How did you know about the event? I totally missed it T.T
Did you know about it through web or newspapers or...? How?]]>
< ![CDATA[Sorry this is my first time here
I was directed here from Dannychoo.com (saw your post there)
What is Gordon’s blog link?]]>
< ![CDATA[Awesome! Kinda reminds me of FanExpo that is being held in Toronto near the end of August. I can't wait for that.]]>
< ![CDATA[I want to buy something there too! I don't mind buying those small cases filled with tiny figures.
And dam, I want to take a photo with the Kamen Rider!]]>
< ![CDATA[sorry about the barrier at our booth, we have to protect our helmets which are very expensive and cannot be bought anywhere else. ^_^]]>
After reading this I thought it was really enlightening. I actually appreciate you finding the time and energy to place this article along. Just as before I discover myself shelling out far too much time both reading and also commenting. Although so what, ?t had been nevertheless of great benefit!
< ![CDATA[Haha, did you get anything? I head B-Mecha acquired a handful of Relvos ^^]]>
< ![CDATA[Figmas were real cheap. $25 !]]>
< ![CDATA[I'm 13 cm shorter than you. I am using a D40 for all my pictures, from outdoor shoots to nendo stories !]]>
< ![CDATA[Mike is his real name. I have his name card, his mobile number! Good luck with your plan!]]>
< ![CDATA[nope, didn't get anything. Nothing that I really want there XD]]>
< ![CDATA[Wow, we're about the same height.. Haha..
btw: great post and it felt like i was there just by reading it.]]>
< ![CDATA[I should have gone down early. Reading other Toy Carnival impressions from other blogs, seems that I missed quite a lot of interesting stuffs >_<!]]>
< ![CDATA[Only wanted the Alice and Imoko nendo.
The Idolmaster figures were quite nice too, but wallet says otherwise ^^]]>
< ![CDATA[Sure, I'll link yours too!
I was using a D40 to take the pictures! Lighting was bad ^^!]]>
< ![CDATA[Why can't Nendos be as cheap also ? T_T]]>
< ![CDATA[Thanks. You have quite a happening blog here. I will link you up in my blog links and rings. :) Subscribed your RSS too.]]>
< ![CDATA[Not that you mentioned it, I don't recall seeing any.
But maybe there were, but I did not catch a glimpse of it!]]>
< ![CDATA[We don't get these everyday though ^^
Such events are pretty uncommon even in our part of the woods]]>
< ![CDATA[Cause if they were, it would be a crime not to own one.. :p]]>
< ![CDATA[Managed to create a pic link for you while chilling at the Library ^^
Your link is up!]]>
< ![CDATA[the 6th picture is Gordon]]>
< ![CDATA[me ugly lah not worth seeing, there are plenty of cute girls around, like the cute female ghostbuster and the cute long hair girl minding the bread store. ^^;]]>
< ![CDATA[I saw it on Gordon's blog a few mths back ^^ ]]>
< ![CDATA[ok thanks i found the link ^.^
Does Gordon post all the upcoming events?]]>
< ![CDATA[Gordonator.com ^^ ]]>
< ![CDATA[I think he posts all the events the 501st Legion takes part in. If you want the news of local events, I recommend the forums: Sgcollect, Sgclub, hobbyhype, vr-zone, Hwz!]]>
< ![CDATA[thanks ^.^]]>
< ![CDATA[Poor Mr Kamen Rider was sweating from all the walking around and picture taking!]]>
< ![CDATA[I think we have something like that coming up.
This event is pretty small scale compared to the conventions that we have! ^^]]>
< ![CDATA[I would have never though that the cute female ghostbuster was a Malay until she started talking ^^
And I didn't see any cute girl at the bread store! Only saw a guy an a middle aged lady. Different shifts maybe T_T]]>