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Friday, 28 August 2009

JAPANESE MICRO TOYS

Its got to be said that I am a massive fan of japanese toys and design and I have always maintained that they have some of the coolest toys ever, but this is just out there...

http://www.asovision.com/magicpet/info.html

Basically, you drop one of these suckers into your water bottle and watch it bob round - available as squid, jellyfish and octopus! Watch out Astro Nautilus!

2 comments:

The Philosophic Toad said...

How do these work? Are they motor driven, bicarbonate of soda powered, or what?

FiM said...

They are not motor driven or anything... just contains air bubble at the cap heads...
Wondering where can i get it in singapore... AFA09 should have? shouldnt it?

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