Toynami

Toynami is a Van Nuys, CA toy company. Originally founded in 2000 by George Sohn, Toynami is primarily focused on anime licenses for speciality retailers and collectors in the North American market.

Part of the early driving force that lead to the creation of the company was Sohn's interest in producing and releasing modern Macross Valkyire toys, something he spearheaded with Japanese company Yamato while VP at Toycom. When legal issues arose blocking the non-grey market release of Yamato's Macross toys in North America, Sohn left Toycom and started Toynami, ironically first acquiring the Robotech license, which was the thing that roadblocked Yamato and Toycom's Macross toys.

Using Robotech as a starting point, Toynami has since expanded seeking other primarily anime based licenses and aiming more towards collectors instead of the mass-market.

Present licenses

*Robotech - Harmony Gold
*Macross - U.S. Market via Harmony Gold
*Naruto
*Bleach
*Inuyasha
*Futurama
*Chobits
*Voltron
*Emily the Strange

List of Released Figures

Futurama

Series 1 - Phillip J. Fry [ [http://toynami.com/popup_futurama_fry01.html "Toynami Website - Phillip J. Fry Figure"] ] & Dr. John Zoidberg [ [http://toynami.com/popup_futurama_zoidberg01.html "Toynami Website - Dr.Zoidberg Figure"] ]

Series 2 - Turanga Leela [ [http://toynami.com/popup_futurama_leela01.html "Toynami Website - Turanga Leela Figure"] ] & Zapp Brannigan [ [http://toynami.com/popup_futurama_zapp01.html "Toynami Website - Zap Brannigan Figure"] ]

Series 3 - Bender [ [http://toynami.com/popup_futurama_bender01.html "Toynami Website - Bender Figure"] ] & Kif Kroker [ [http://toynami.com/popup_futurama_kif01.html "Toynami Website - Kif Kroker Figure"] ]

Series 4 (coming soon) - Captain Yesterday & Nudar [ [http://toynami.com/futurama.html "Toynami Futurama Figures main page"] ]

The first six figures released have a piece needed to build the Robot Devil figure [ [http://toynami.com/popup_futurama_robotdevil01.html "Toynami Website - Robot Devil Figure"] ]

Limited Edition Figures

2006 SDCC Exclusive Glorious Golden Bender

2007 SDCC Exclusive 'mating' Zoidberg [ [http://toynami.com/popup_futurama_cc07_01.html "Toynami Website - Mating Zoidberg Figure"] ]

Wizard Exclusive parellel universe Zoidberg [ [http://toynami.com/popup_futurama_tf07_01.html "Toynami Website - Universe 1 Zoidberg Figure"] ]

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Bleach

Series 1 - Kurosaki Ichigo [ [http://toynami.com/popup_bleach_ichigo01.html "Toynami Website - Kurosaki Ichigo Figure"] ] & Kuchiki Rukia [ [http://toynami.com/popup_bleach_rukia01.html "Toynami Website - Kuchiki Rukia Figure"] ]

Series 2 -Sado "Chad" Yasutora [ [http://toynami.com/popup_bleach_sado01.html "Toynami Website - Sado "Chad" Yasutora Figure"] ] & Inoue Orihime [ [http://toynami.com/popup_bleach_orihime01.html "Toynami Website - Inoue Orihime Figure"] ]

Series 3 -Kuchiki Byakuya [ [http://toynami.com/popup_bleach_byakuya01.html "Toynami Website - Kuchiki Byakuya Figure"] ] & Abarai Renji [ [http://toynami.com/popup_bleach_renji01.html "Toynami Website - Abarai Renji Figure"] ]

Series 4Hitsugaya Toshiro [ [http://tf08.figures.com/showphoto.php?photo=4330 "Toyfair 2008 - Toynami Stand picture - Hitsugaya Toshiro box art] ] & Urahara Kisuke [ [http://tf08.figures.com/showphoto.php?photo=5418 "Toyfair 2008 - Toynami Stand picture - Urahara Kisuke prototype"] ]

Limited Edition Figures

2007 SDCC Exclusive Kurosaki Ichigo [ [http://toynami.com/popup_bleach_ichigo_ex01.html "Toynami Website - Limited Edition Ichigo"] ]

Notes and references

reflist

External links

* [http://www.toynami.com Official Toynami Site]