One thing I like about being a dad in Japan and the tons of improbable toys that one can find here. Sometimes, they’re a bit too over-the-top, but at other times, they’re really imaginative and fun. For example, Tomica, the main manufacturers of small toy cars (the Japanese equivalent […]
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Yes, why wait until they can walk and speak to give them sexist toys when you can do it when they’re still babies? So, the other day, at the toy store, I found this: Sure, it’s in Japanese, but do I really need to explain? I guess I […]
So it seems that I’m becoming a xenomorph collector… You know, the alien in the Alien movies. I’m not sure how it has happened, I stopped caring about figures and figurines when I hit puberty a few decades ago. However, about a year ago, I found a xenomorph figurine […]
With Hana arriving a week earlier than expected, I realized that I hadn’t posted about the other toys I had bought for her before she was born. Here they are: A cute Alien Chestburster… Seriously, ain’t it cute with its inner jaw and all? And what […]
On a lighter note compared to yesterday; a few days ago I bought my soon to be born kid its first toy: I’m not sure I like the fact that it’s feeling a little too comfortable in the house already (here chilling on my desk chair). I […]
I got this in the mail this morning: I guess that now, nobody will believe me anymore when I tell them that I’m not a geek.