The good people at Delay No Mall have teamed up with MINDstyle to bring you the  ‘This One’s for the Children of Sichuan’ charity auction. A preview of all the items for auction will be held today (Monday, Aug. 25th) at MINDstlye’s new creative space at Delay No Mall.

“Organized by MINDstyle, this charity auction brings together the best and brightest artists and companies for a common goal – to assist the children of Sichuan Province in China  victimized by the earthquake that killed more than 70,000 and left upwards of 10 million homeless. Proceeds raised from the auction will be donated to  Care For Children’s efforts  to assist in the new reconstruction master plan calling for the rebuilding of 3500 primary schools and 1200 middle schools in Sichuan Province.”

A really worth while cause with many amazing collectibles available for bidding.

Check out the online auction here. Auction end August 30 at 6 pm PT.

Some of the available lots:

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Wow. It’s been a hectic couple of months with toy fairs in Taiwan, the San Diego Comic-Con and finally closing it up with the 10th annual Ani-Com show right here in Hong Kong. Although not exactly as big as Comic-Con, the Hong Kong Ani-Com has it’s share of enthusiasts as you can see from the photos below.

A couple of busy booths at the show (including our own):

 A few of the fans and game girls from the show and something of a surprise in the last photo.

For those of you who will be in Hong Kong in August — come drop by Ani-Com 2008 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center from August 1-4 from 11 am - 10 pm and August 5th from 11 am to 8 pm. We’ll have the MYBU’s available after selling out at TTF’08 so come visit us at booth C19 if you don’t want to miss out.

The Taipei Toy Fair this year was amazing. It was just an awesome experience with stars like Huck Gee, Tim Biscup, Tim Tsui, Devilrobots, Touma, Kazuhiko Ito from Itokin Park and Hong Kong’s own Eric So, Winson Ma, Michael Kwong and of course, Husky Kevin. More commentary with pics below.

There were tons of people crowding around our booth and lots of picture taking. Of what you ask? Keep scrolling.

Well we had some Icy Bunny family prototypes on display and some prototypes of a new very *hush hush* 3″ series.

We also had Winson’s prototype on display. It’s a 12″ figure that we will be releasing later this year. Note the “real fur”, metal badge and rope, goggle and ice pick accessories.

Galaxy Bunch’s Michael Kwong was a real attraction — customizing DIY 8″ Alpha figures for fans. He was also on stage for an autograph session at one point for 2 1/2 hrs. Now that’s dedication.

A custom 8″ Alpha from Michael.

More from Michael.

Hong Kong designer and Da Warrior Creator Tim Tsui.

Another Tim –artist Tim Biskup

Hong Kong designer and Icy Bunny creator Husky Kevin with Japanese designer Kenji Fukuda.

A Winson Ma custom figure of the Old Master Q comic book character.

Via the ever current and well informed Vinyl Pulse, Tokidoki and Tokyoplastic have teamed up to create this 4″ Geisha figure. It looks like a really great pairing and will be an exclusive at SDCC for $40 at the Toy Tokyo booth.

P.I. has some new products coming out in July/August. Among them are these two robot figures from Toki Doki and Devilrobots. Here’s the official release:

“An extension of the popular PLUS series from PI where we combine East + West, the first PLUS Vinyl Figures come from Devilrobots + Tokidoki. From the wacky minds of Japanese designers Devilrobots: Evil King robot comes with brilliant pilot Pilot Shin K, a genious since birth. Evil King loves Japan, and features 2 Katana Blades. Both Evil King and Pilot Shin K’s energy come from Beer! Italian artist Simone Legno or better known as “Tokidoki” created big blue robot “Astrodemonio”, which is always kept nice and shiny in their home in Italy by his smaller sidekick Pilot Captain Murder Jr. “Campioni del mondo!” (Champions of the World) says Pilot Captain Murder Jr. ”

Vinyl Pulse had pictures of Devilrobots Taipei Toy Fair 2008 Exclusive Tofu figure and thought you just had to see it too. So here are some pics.

Amanda Visell has quite the following as an artist. She paints, she’s creative, she’s original AND she creates toys. For anyone who hasn’t seen her stuff (and you really should) you can go to http://amandavisell.com/ and see her collection.

Here are pictures of her up and coming Poopicorn resin figure and the painting it was based on - Amanda’s Birthday Wish painting from Nightmares and Dreams (2006) at DvA.

A pooping unicorn - what’s not to like here?

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Remember these? Well we finally got a hold of some from Winson and here they are!

You can get the special edition - Director’s Cut - here and the normal edition here.

Michael Lau will be holding his CSBOOTH1, titled ‘Gardener Still‘, at his Michael Gallery right here in HK. Rumour has it that he’ll be releasing a Gardner 049  Jordan figure in regular and special editions. Michael’s exhibition runs from July 5th to 6th and include paintings as well as the release of his figures.

Michael Gallery
11/F., Lok’s Industrial Building
204 Tsat Tsz Mui Road, Quarry Bay
Hong Kong
+852 2811 3111

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