My Touma-mania at STCC

The first Singapore Toys & Comics Convention was held on 28-29 June and I had to beg my wife to let me go. :P

Ever since my baby is borned, I do not have much time for toys, to be honest, but the STCC flyer was advertising about Devilrobots and Tokidoki appreances so I wanna go have a look (I'm a Tofu fan). Amazingly it was super packed where 140,000 people showed up. I did not know Singaporeans are into toys, comics and games (video & card).

While stumbling past the girls-swarmed Tokidoki's booth and the families-packed Nintendo Wii stand, I chanced upon a booth with the signboard "Toumart". To my delight, Mr Touma was here in STCC in person!!!

I am a big fan of Touma, owning at least a hundred of his toys (yes yes yes, in numerous colourways) so you can imagine me geeking out when I saw him with his assistant Yuki in this convention.





I basically went berserk, buying all the Touma toys I could get my hands on in the convention that I do not own, just so I can get Touma to sign and scribble on them. Since he would only sign and draw 3 pieces each time, I think I had queued 10 times to get him to sign and draw 20 toys!

All in all, I bought 2 Grabbits (Red + Rust), a PeeGee, a Squeezel, a Bongo and a Slither, and he signed and scribbled on all of them. Not only that, on the second day of the convention, I brought along some of his old toys and he was kind enough to sign and scribble on all of them! Those included a Giant Skuttle (people thought I am crazy hugging that monster around in the packed convention hall), a Skuttle, a Skuttle-X, a Boo, a Baboo, a Boobie, a Toolie, a Zugan, another PeeGee, a Talon, a Goon, a Gaburin, a Fangwolf and an Aniballoon.

20 toys together, and he drew on my convention brochure and on my Touma calendar too. Sweet!



Yuki-san is Toumart Art Producer and since Touma does not speak much English, Yuki was kind enough to share some information about upcoming toys that Touma is launching (Ultraman Touma toys???) and he was translating for Touma when Touma asked some questions concerning where I bought my Touma toys (One-Up & Fewmany shops in Tokyo, sir) and whether he should have STCC exclusive toys if he returns next year (OH YEAH PLEASE, SIR!!!)
Very friendly and nice people, Touma and Yuki, though I think Touma was a bit camera shy without his Knuckle Bear mask on.



I really did have a blast meeting one of my favourite artist and toy designer in person. Hopefully Touma will consider coming again next year for the STCC and I will buy more of his toys from now till then!

Fun weekend indeed!

P.S. Will try to post pics of all the toys he drawn on in a future blog post.
P.P.S. I forgot all about Devilrobots when I was geeking out over Touma. Did not get them to sign my Tofu toy. Heheheh.