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Toykino Gallery - Toy Figures!

 24 July, 2009
Friday

In exploring Samcheong-dong, we stopped off at the compact Toykino Gallery found along Samcheongdong-gil. Its a small place but packed with several rooms full of cabinets displaying all manner of toy figurines.

Toykino-Exterior

Linh and I paid 3,000 KRW each (£1.45) to check out the displays in detail. I say detail, because when we first walked in, being a small place, we could see all the rooms on display anyway.

Each room was themed in some way and these ranged from military, sports, Star Wars, Peanuts, Smurfs, The Simpsons, Popeye and movie tie-ins.

Toykino-Star-Wars-3D-Frame

There were a few life-sized figures, and Linh was happy to pose with Superman and Batman.

Toykino-Superman-Linh

Toykino-Batman-Linh

Movie tie-in's included Kill Bill, Shaun of the Dead and Scarface.

Toykino-Kill-Bill

Toykino-Shaun-Of-Dead

Toykino-Scarface

Some actors were also focused on. There was a collection with Bruce Willis, Kurt Russell and Sylvester Stallone amongst others.

Toykino-Bruce-Willis

The inimitable Bruce Lee was there.

Toykino-Bruce-Lee

Dr. Evil and his Mini Me.

Toykino-Dr-Evil

The Military section featured this funky doll.

Toykino-Military-Girl

A retro section included Betty Boop figures.

Toykino-Retro-Figures

Mario makes an appearance.

Toykino-Mario-Smurf

The many faces of Snoopy.

Toykino-Snoopy

And of course, shelves stacked with superheroes.

Toykino-Superheroes

Toykino-Muscles

Toykino-Ffour

More photos of the Toykino Gallery on Flickr.

Visit the Toykino Gallery.

Toykino-Open

Toykino-Door-Sign

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