#toku merch

[iristial]

Individual character and duo bromides for the upcoming Gavv photobook, to be released February 14 2025! 🍬

[zakurincho]

HEY RIDER FANS!!

i ordered a small batch of these keychains for myself and i've got two (2) extra ones that i thought would be fun to give away!

HOW TO ENTER:

-1 REBLOG = 1 ENTRY

-1 LIKE = 1 ADDITIONAL ENTRY

-i will be picking TWO WINNERS for this giveaway

-you don't have to be following me but feel free to!

-you can reblog for a friend if they don't use tumblr

-you will likely need to pay for shipping (can ship worldwide)

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23RD

if you have any questions feel free to message me!

GOOD LUCK XOXO

[t-u-i-t-c]

宇宙船 vol.186

[psinesthesia]

my new kamen rider charms are available for purchase! check them out! i have 2 sets of everything, but if a design is popular, i'll set up pre-orders for another round of it! i also want to figure out international shipping, so keep an eye out for that.

[excadrill]

ty for the tag νέον @yu3s !! ^__^

tagging @ankhisms @kirider @seashrine @kuixotic @krghost but only if you wanna 🫶

[meganechan05]

Saw a drawing meme on Twitter and...

I'm going back into the trash bin. Oh God. Tokutwit gonna hate me for this 😂🫠🗑

[heartvisor]

I just want to say that I love your art so much you have such a pretty art style every time I come across your art I just stare at it for hours it's so good (I'm very tired and the buffa you drew is so tiny I'm holding him gently)

hehehe thank you anon! ://D i'm glad you enjoy my work!!

[tokujenny]

So psyched, look what finally came!!

My new Gamera vs Guiron shirt from FriendPrices on Etsy! It also included a pin but I forgot to get a photo of it 😅

[eliasdrid]

ive been so busy ive not even put together my new spider kumonos figure....

[pleuvoire]

[tokutenshi]

November 23, 2023 - Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm alive again! The waiting list is now open and I deeply appreciate everyone's patience with me.

I am still working on some order from the list before I closed it, so if I haven't reached out yet, please don't think I've forgotten you.

OPEN - November 23, 2023

Plushie Commissions!

Dolls made to order!

Each doll is $50 USD plus shipping, with a $3 payment (via Ko-fi) per doll to get on the waiting list, $22 due at time of commission production, with the remainder ($25) due at time of shipping. Payment only accepted through Paypal at this time.

Dolls are approximately 8" with dwarves being slightly shorter than humans and elves, while qunari are taller, just like in real life! Wait…

Dolls are made from alova suede with minky fabric for hair, perfect for affectionate head-petting. Eyes, brow, and mouth are stitched in with further face details hand-painted on. Horns and some embellishments are made with felt, but several other types of trim may be used as the design permits.

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Custom protagonist and Original Character plushies! 

Simply provide screen shots, art, or a physical description of your character and preferred outfit as well as the desired expression. Once the concept art is approved, I’ll get right to work on producing your squishable avatar.

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Companions, Baddies, and other NPCs can be yours to cuddle!

Starter outfits are used on default for canon character, so if you would like another outfit or something special, please specify at time of commission.

**NOTE: As these dolls were originally intended as companion pieces for the official Sanshee dolls, any character released by them is unavailable. That being said, characters can be requested in a form other than the norm. For example, Commander Cullen is not allowed, but templar Cullen, Knight-Captain Cullen, post-Trespasser Cullen and any sort of AU version (Avvar, modern, etc) are fair game!

**UPDATE: The version of Alistair shown above is no longer available as an official doll has been released. Fell free to request him in Grey Warden armor or something else he’ll enjoy just as much.

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Getting your OTP? For an additional $5, you can add kissy magnets!

Already have your love interest at home? I’ll include step by step instructions on how to perform plushie surgery and implant the companion magnet on your own

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Fill out the Waiting List form and send $3 via Ko-fi to get started!

[iristial]

ShopNui dropped their order links for Gavv's character and mascot keychain plushie line-up! Shouma and Hanto are set to be released in January 2025 🍬🍭

Also worth noting is the caption they included for the character nuis:

ショウマの服をめくるとお腹には…？👀

It seems they included Shouma's Gavv undermeath his little hoodie, so it's worth taking a look once you get your own little Shouma nui in your hands ^-^

[macheteddy]

Got an agito statue!!

[cina-full-moon-xanadium]

i think it's interesting to try and guage what toku shows are Popular or not bc there's a fair amount of information to go off of in Japan, but you're practically just guessing in the West bc there's nothing to go off of beyond what you personally see

Like. In Japan we've had multiple polls; we had that big NHK poll of the most popular rider shows and then there've been a few smaller ones, some around Heisei 20th. And you've also got the trends Bandai and Toei tend to follow for what gets merch and what gets actor comebacks. They always always ALWAYS do so much for Kuuga and W but then Ghost and Hibiki never get anything y'know.

So for Japan, I would say this is about how the main Heisei/Reiwa riders rank for popularity

(too early to judge for Gotchard but it actually seems somewhat popular? Time will tell I guess. This is just for the shows also; other elements can still be very well liked -- Tsukasa has a LOT of fans, and Kabuto often seems to get model kit merch bc of its designs)

But if I'm to try and re-arrange this for The West. Oh god. Oh god help me. Uhhh???

and like if you go to someone else they'll probably tell you nah this list is nonsense Revice and Drive are the ones all the people i know love and no-one liked Blade or Den-O. It's so hard to tell

[godslayer86]

I just added a bunch of toku merch to my etsy!

https://godslayer86.etsy.com

Any toku orders over $20 (before shipping) will receive free stickers! Any over $30 will receive their choice of a free print or charm!

[teh-kittykat]

Tron: The Animated Series (1986-1989)

What do you mean you haven't seen Tron: The Animated Series? It was my favorite cartoon when I was a kid!

So this all started as an exercise in how to explain why Sam inexplicably had merch for a 2010 movie in his 1989 house. In-universe there would have probably been toys using the 1982 aesthetic since that was what the video game used (and Sam DOES have an 82 Tron figure in his house!) but why the Grid stuff?

Enter THE CARTOON.

It was the 1980s everybody who was everybody made cartoons to sell toys. Encom made home gaming consoles by this point, and they would have had peripherals like Nintendo did. They had licensed characters like Nintendo did. You see where I am going.

Encom wants to sell Encom Gaming Power Gauntlets. Kevin wants to introduce kids to the ideas about the Digital Frontier since he's a futurist and knows kids will be mentally flexible enough to digest the new zeitgeist if it's fun and animated!

Production of the cartoon ran from Kevin's official retirement as CEO until his disappearance. Three official seasons with a fourth in production. Season three's airing was cut short due to the furor surrounding Kevin's going missing, but the "lost" final episodes of S3 were restored when the DVDs were eventually released for an anniversary collection.

The cartoon was also successful in syndication through the 1990s and early 2000s since it successfully anticipated the Educational/Informative movement-- Tron: The Animated Series actually does teach kids some of the basics of computer science around the silly adventure stuff. Think Captain Planet meets Captain N the Game Master for the overall tone of the series. It's not realistic, but you get the general concepts and issues.

The cartoon's popularity among millennials keeps Tron alive in pop culture to the present day. The IP remains a perennial revenue stream for Encom, and every so often they'll throw the fanbase something to keep the money going. (This is an ordeal to the program himself, since he has to deal with hackers sent by groups named after him on the reg.)

What's it about?

Young video game enthusiast Jethro "Jet" Keene lands himself the after school internship of a lifetime getting to work at Encom in a special new program for teenagers with attitude run by Kevin Flynn (voiced by himself).

However, it's not all fun and video game testing with the sweet new Encom Power Gauntlet. Thanks to some cartoon physics hijinks, Jet finds himself transported into the Grid, the Boss's new experimental computer system!

Jet gets to work with Clu (they hired a voice-alike for him) and Tron (ditto) to find a way back home to the real world, solving problems and learning how to code along the way... and that was the pilot episode.

Because this is a cartoon for children, Jet is naturally the regular User of the Grid instead of Flynn, though Flynn makes occasional appearances to dispense Yoda-like wisdom and is revered by all the programs inside the system as the Creator.

There are also no lasers or anything like that-- Jet does a silly toku-like thing with the power gauntlet to commute into the system.

Clu is more likable than in real life. He's mostly benevolent, trying to make a more perfect system but the show's writers actually picked up on the idea that making a perfect system is kind of an impossible lift and made it central to his character development. He's a little obsessed with copying the User world, and there's an arc in S3 where a lot of the conflict revolves around why can't programs be programs about it.

Tron's not a mayhem goblin, which is a crime. He's portrayed as a little bit Optimus Prime, since Jet's the primary mayhem source, and Fighting for the Users is otherwise his defining personality trait. He gets a surprisingly deep fate/free will arc in S2, since naturally several episodes revolve around attempts to reprogram him since he's the Champion and all. Afterward, he's a bit more chill.

Jet's storyline parallel's Kevin's real-life one a little bit-- a lot of the episodes focused on him as a character revolve around him trying to balance his double life.The cartoon also does not mention the time dilation jetlag. Jet, unlike Kevin, does learn how to ask for help, especially as S3 decides to diversify a little more and adds a girl intern, Paige.

S3 in general has a lot of emphasis on diversity and tolerance of others and their differences. The ISO-Basic tensions were running high in the real Grid. It was on Kevin's mind a lot. He was also starting to make thinks on introducing the ISOs to the rest of the world at the time.

Like Reboot in the 1990s, Tron has a lot of episodes devoted to video games and playing games on the Game Grid is a frequent trope. (Hardcore Tron partisans accuse Reboot of stealing this.) Unlike in Reboot, there's no derezzing the losers if the User wins. Games are sometimes the entire plot and sometimes an obstacle or diversion from solving an episode's actual problem.

Since the Grid is open in Tron, there is a recurring cast of villains in the form of viruses and hackers from other systems in addition to technical problems that have to be solved through coding and computer science know-how.

The fourth season didn't get much past a few animatics for the S4 pilot, but what was there got a release for the fancy anniversary collections as special features. Design docs indicate that some new characters were about to be introduced-- Jalen and Radia. Kevin Flynn disappeared while voice actors were being cast for these roles.

NGL I am extremely mad this wasn't a real cartoon.