The PopCult Toybox
It’s time to let the onslaught begin! Your PopCulteer has returned from New York City and The 2016 International Toy Fair, and has jumped feet-first into the monumental task of sorting out all of the photos and video so that we can tell you what’s coming up from the toy world this year.
When I say “monumental,” I mean it. I will be combing through over 1,300 photos and sorting out nearly two hundred video clips to bring you the most concise and PopCultish coverage of Toy Fair on the planet. We will tell you about established titans of the industry and tiny, nascent toymakers who are just getting their feet wet.
We posted a preview last week, while we were still in New York. Tonight we bring you a much bigger photo essay to give you a hint of what to expect as we bring you the highlights of The 2016 International Toy Fair in New York.
This is just one of several entrances to the display floors at the Javits Center
Nothing out of the ordinary here
The Banangram Car merits a second look
Looking out over one small segment of one floor of the displays
You couldn’t breach the LEGO wall without an appointment (we had one)
Nobody matches Funko when it comes to gigantic display toys
Five Nights At Freddy’s will take the toy world by storm, via Funko and McFarlane Toys
Funko is making over-sized Playmobil-style figures now
Mattel’s Jumbotron fortress
Ben Lashes, the manager of Grumpy Cat, plotting a secret project with Mrs. PopCulteer
Five Guys named Gigantor, at the Mezco booth
Mezco is also making this awesome ONE:12 Space Ghost figure
Marbleocity, from Playmonster, blew us away
New, historical-themed Stratego from Playmonster looked epic
Meccano lets you build your own robot overlords
Zoomer Chimp responds to voice commands, walks, crawls and does tricks.
This voice-response, remote-control BB8 was incredible, but nobody was allowed to shoot video yet
Air Hogs will offer this flying, remote-control Starship Enterprise in time for Christmas
AZIAM presents Yoga Girlz and a whole line of great toys and books
Schilling Star Wars wind-ups, really cool
The Walking Dead entries in McFarlane’s new “Color Tops” line of 7″ collector figures.
McFarlane Toys has a killer series of Game of Thrones construction sets
McFarlane Toys also presents Five Nights At Freddy’s in construction set form
Lincoln Logs celebrate 100 years
You will have to see our video of Lionel’s amazing new Mega Racer
The next batch of Funko’s Walking Dead Mystery Minis
Five Nights At Freddy’s plush, from Funko
LEGO impresses, as always
The smiling poop emoji was all over the place. You can’t make this crap up
Cryptozoic’s DC Meeples for gameplay or just collecting
NECA’s two-foot-plus Hulk
Quarter-scale DC figures from NECA
DC Superhero Girls will be the envy of boys everywhere
Hot Wheels new green initiative encourages kids to make buildings and ramps out of their packaging
It’s hard to beat Safari’s wildlife figures
Ty covers the globe with cute cuddliness
Schleich does Justice League figurines
Talking Michaelangelo from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turles responds to voice commands and will be seen in an upcoming PopCult video
OMX’s photo-realistic Spock 1/6-scale figure. We will be posting pictures of Kirk soon
Nick Croce, the king of bendy figures, shows off the new Batman: The Animated Series Batmobile, and a picture of the Batman figure that will come with it, in progress
How can you not respect a company, Round 2 LLC, that puts out a die-cast car from “Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry?”
One last look back as we left the Javits Center on the final day of Toy Fair
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