datadub – fig-lab

Taipei Toy Festival 2020, one of our favorite international toy shows start tomorrow (Nov 20, 2020). We look forward to it every year. Unfortunately, as the Covid-19 Pandemic has shut down international travel, it is with great sadness that we will only be participating remotely in the event this year. Thanks to the good folks…

Store is now open! Fig-lab SHOP.ASIA is an online designer toy shop dedicated to bringing the best designer toys from Japan (and beyond!) to our collector friends throughout Asia. Fig-lab started the Global Figure Showcase in 2019 to bring our favorite artists and their creations to events around the world. After a stupendous kick-off at…

Here at Fig-lab we were very sad to not be able to head to Thailand this year for the Thailand Toy Festival. TTE though is trying out something new and exciting for these troubling times, they are holding the festival online! To coincide with the Online event, Fig-lab is soft opening our new shop and…

To celebrate the launch of the first Thailand Toy Festival Online 2020, Fig-lab is soft launching our Online Shop with sales to Thailand exclusively (More countries will be coming VERY SOON!) Fig-lab.com/shop We have a limited selection of exciting products from the artists participating in Global Figure Showcase (Virtual Booth A53) including works by Kaori…

Whoa! I have a thing for retro-style Super Deformed sofubi and this series hits all the marks. Picking up iconic original characters by Hong Kong Indie toy designers Planet X Asia, MechNoiz Toys and Kaiju One, the Super Joyable Collection Series 1.0 by Pork Mart looks like tons of bite-sized fun. (love the name as…

Another amazing Superfestival under the belt – great fun was had by all. There are few pieces remaining that are now up in the FIG-X.net shop. PaulKaiju’s Glitter Bomb Unchiman – the FINAL STAND in resplendent Blue Glitter vinyl with Gold Metal Swipe and Finger Fives to match. Awesome Toy’s Loch Ness Monster gets the S.T.E.A.M.…

In terms of releases – this past year was dominated by the Glitter War releases. Apparently glitter was something I had to get out of my system (all the cool kids were doing it). Maruyama Toys was the enabler – we ran through almost their entire “Crazy Lamé” pull pour catalog. Red, Silver, Gold, Pink, Emerald…

Fig-lab will be at the next Superfestival – Volume 70! My how the time flies! Superfestival 70 will be held at the Science Museum in Kudanshita on January 10, 2016 – doors open at 10:30. If you have never been you owe to yourself to check out the coziest little toy show in Tokyo. A great mix…

Just for the month of December, Fig-lab’s international online shop – FIG-X.net – has free shipping anywhere in the world on any order over ¥5000! JINGLE BOMB Finger Fives, S.T.E.A.M. colored creatures and a few special bits and pieces will be popping up as the month goes on. Use the promo code HOHOHO2015 at check out…

Happy Holidays from us here at Fig-lab! To celebrate the year-end we are dropping a sprinkling of these Jingle Bomb finger puppets. Wrapping up the year of the GLITTER BOMB in which we explored the spectrum of various Glitter-infused vinyls for our figures – we recently started experimenting with paint schemes that would work with…

Here at Fig-lab we have been pretty stoked on our new S.T.E.A.M. colorway utilizing Goto-sensei’s inimitable metallic Copper, Silver and Gold paints. Last month, we released a handful of PaulKaiju’s iconic Unchiman in this new colorway that we have developed (a few of which are still available!) and now the Finger Five get the full S.T.E.A.M.…

Short notice folks – but D-CON was sooo last week. Fig-lab will be joining Guumon + Friends at a nice little SOFUBI show at the One-Up showcase in Akiba Cultural Zone. Featuring fresh customs from western SOFUBI artists Guumon, Bwana Spoons, Devils Head Production, and Kearjun. Fig-lab will be contributing a clutch of Datadub finger puppets – several Metal Swipe…

At DesignFesta 39 held at Big Sight on May 17 & 18th, Fig-lab shared a booth with the usual suspects. My wares were sandwiched between the dual creative powerhouses of Refreshment Toy on one side, and Rampage Toys on the other. DesignFesta is held for 2 days, Saturdays festivities at the Fig-lab table were mainly…

By the time I arrived it was all over – the tables had been picked clean and the hardcore had moved on. But it was all the better to take photos of the glorious display cases. The 2 day event was held on the sixth floor event space of Yamashiroya in Ueno, arguably the best…

Phase Pheyden – Onell Design’s contribution to the Fig-lab Finger Five – gets the Hellopike “Custom Corps” treatment. Customizer extraordinaire Hellopike is at it once more with a grip of his one-of-a kind customized Phase Pheyden Sofubi Finger puppets. Grab one of these blind-bagged beauties before they are Phased Out! LUNATIC FRINGE WEBSHOP

Better late than never… wanted to give a big shout out to Mighty Jaxx for hosting an exclusive release of the Finger Five at their booth at STGCC this past weekend. They also tapped us to supply them with a cornucopia of the freshest Japanese Vinyl from UAMOU, Blobpus, RealxHead, Chima Group, Monstock and Hariken. Hope the…