Toys

US importer recalls 37,000 squishy toys due to ‘deadly ingestion hazard’

If a water bead is ingested, it can cause ingestion, choking, and intestinal obstruction hazards inside a child’s body.

Young South Koreans are getting locked on Buddhist keyrings

The product has a playful premise that has helped drive its popularity: Every press adds to your “gongdeok”, or Buddhist merit.

Toys ‘R’ Us eyes Japan exit, sale of business to Don Quijote operator

Toys ‘R’ Us Japan has been losing money in recent years, official gazettes show.

My Space

Inside content creator Naomi Neo’s high-octane ‘car’ playroom with a $10k racing simulator

Content creator Naomi Neo’s favourite space in the house is her new “toy” – a $10,000 racing simulator.

English woman gallops her way to Guinness world record with biggest My Little Pony collection

Miranda Worby’s stable of My Little Pony collectibles has an entire room in her house as well as a storage unit.

G-Dragon’s Peaceminusone collabs with Toy Story and McDonald’s to launch in Singapore

Toy Story Peaceminusone: The First Fan is a collaboration between G-Dragon’s fashion label and Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story franchise.

Starbucks Snoopy cup resells for $254, showing the power of merch drops

Starbucks’s Snoopy glass cup is reselling for as much as five times its retail price.

Japan sushi giant pulls campaign with manga character Chiikawa after employee steals prizes

Momonga, a character of Chiikawa, displayed at a restaurant of conveyor-belt sushi chain Kura Sushi in Tokyo on Sept 3.

New authorised Barbie: Dreamscape YA novel feeds kidult craving for female fans

Barbie: Dreamscape author Alex Aster at a book event at a Barnes & Noble in New York on Aug 18.

Plushies spending nights at Japan museums gain traction

Plushies “visit” The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

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