Nendoroid Yuyuko Saigyouji Touhou ねんどろいど西行寺幽々子東方

Another really gorgeous Touhou exclusive, Yuuyuko has some neat accessories/elements included with her. The spirit butterflies have stands with them and definitely add to her uniqueness factor.

Nendoroid Youmu Konpaku Touhou ねんどろいど魂魄妖夢東方

Nendo 141 comes by way of Otacute. Just like all of the other Touhou Nendos, Youmu was an exclusive to certain shops in Japan.

KidRobot X Street Fighter

Adding on to the last post, designer toys have gotten so popular in the last few years, that popular franchises have gotten in on the act. Futurama, The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy and now Street Fighter have all had lines designed for them. The Street Fighter line - debuted in early July - is especially impressive, representing all 12 of the original World Warriors sporting alternate colors for quite a few of the characters. My favorites of the bunch have to be Dhalsim (his necklace and yoga fire accessory are both awesome), Sagat and Balrog, who I have yet to get.

KidRobot Dunnys

Dunnys are a designer/art toy line created by KidRobot. Several collections of these are released every year, all designed by artists that usually contribute 1-2 designs per set. As designer toys have become a legit medium in the mid-part of the last decade, these toys and their designers have their own cult following, and some artists have really gotten a foothold designing for sets like these. The sets are usually themed, like Britain, or animals, or graffiti or somesuch design scheme that the artist has to adhere to. There are also sets that are numbered with a year, like "Dunny 2011" for example, where the artists do like a free design sorta thing. And as is the rule with blind box designer toys, these sets have "chase figures" which have a ratio of discovery of like 1/80 or less and can be quite valuable. In the latest sets they've even gone to things like "golden tickets" where, when you find one you can send it in for an ultra-rare handmade Dunny, some of which go for several hundred dollars on ebay.

A lot of these figures have crazy quality and are made of lots of different materials, thus making them quite varied and even though they're all based off of the same basic Dunny mini figure, they definitely don't look the same. For example, there's a design that looks like a gumball machine, the little plastic balls inside the head shake around inside, or with another one shaped like a cute lion, it has a furry mane, a Dunny from the Azteca line has a huge stone head and gems in its eyes. Another, shaped like a gorilla, is flocked and 100% fuzzy all over. They also sell blank Dunnys of different shapes and sizes, where you can make your own custom figure. If you Google "custom Dunnys", you'll find never ending galleries of creativity from budding designer toy artists everywhere, famous and non!

Fullmetal Alchemist Fullmetal Watch 鋼の錬金術師フルメタルウォッチ

A watch from SquEnix's mail-in service via Shonen GanGan back in like 2006, I found an obi from an FMA manga the one day recently and never realized that it even existed back then. So I decided to hop on YJA and lo and behold, I found one for only like 5000yen (they were something like 8000 at retail). It runs on inertia, meaning you charge it up by swinging your arm while walking with it on, or shaking it or whatever. I know that tech has been around for a long time, but this is the first watch I've owned with it. It's fairly hefty, the design is really neat, like whenever something is transmuted in the series, with 2 Flamel crosses on either side, and you can't really see it well in the pic I took, but the back has a visible moving element when the watch is ticking. It came in a really neat embossed box with a case and a chain, wrapped around a pillow, all in all an amazing set up for a watch under $100.