They’ve turned Hello Kitty into a lot of things - a KISS member and a Street Fighter character, just to name a few recent ones. But I’ve never seen her turned into a food item. The bento series contains a bunch of food items such as onigiri, peppers, and octopi with Hello Kitty’s face on them. This is just bizarre. And awesome. My favorite is the plush chicken wing above.
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This watch is all sorts of amazing. Sanrio and tokidoki continue their collaboration, this time roping in super stylish watchmakers, Nooka. Gotta love the tokidoki-ified Hello Kitty characters. I’m hoping for a tokidoki x Sanrio blindbox series some day.
Update: Love Through Design have contacted me and let me know that they have headed up this project and that you can pre-order the watch right here.
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A new press release announced a collaboration between Sanrio and NECA which will bring about a new Hello Kitty collection targeted at hardcore collectors.
The most curious section noted that a special Hello Kitty set of the popular (and awesome) Wizkids’ Heroclix is going to be revealed with the set at the New York Comic-Con.
Heroclix is an great tabletop game that mirrors the gameplay of something like Final Fantasy tactics using miniatures from Marvel and DC superheroes. However, with the latest expansions to Heroclix including IPs such as Assassin’s Creed, Street Fighter and Bioshock, it is no surprise that other recognizable properties are getting Heroclix releases. However, Hello Kitty is a bit surprising.
Can’t wait to see what this brings to the game. Heroclix is a fantastic hobby and I love seeing it grow. If you are a fan of strategy games and comics, you should be playing this game.
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Buy It: Street Fighter Heroclix Starter Set
Just in time for Xmas comes two books that combine the badassery of Street Fighter with the adorableness of Sanrio.
Street Fighter x Sanrio: World View features Sanrio playing the parts of Street Fighter characters sharing the wisdom they’ve learned from countless battles across the world. The Street Fighter x Sanrio Sticker Book contains a mix of colorful bumper stickers, paper dolls, and more.
Now they just need to make a Street Fighter x Sanrio game so I can play as a shoto-ized Badtz Maru and chuck fireballs at Hello Kitty’s mouthless little head.
Sanrio have finally launched their line of Street Fighter shirts and accessories. There are plenty of characters to choose from in both men’s and women’s cuts. I’m having a tough time choosing between Blanka / Keroppi and Zangief / Purin. Also, enter “STREETFIGHTER” (minus the quotes) in the promotion code box at checkout to get a set of awesome pins.
Sega has teamed up with Sanrio and their first project is this awesome jumbo plush. It will be available at Sega’s Joyopolis - sort of a Japanese Dave & Buster’s. According to Andriasang.com, the Sanrio x Sega projects will go worldwide next summer.
Nooka have just released these two awesome watches in their Sub 20 line. One of them is based on Hello Kitty and the other is based on Finn from Adventure Time. Zooka also released a Hello Kitty Mini NookaNooka, their vinyl toys / watch holder. The watches are $130 and the Hello Kitty toy is an extra $35, all from the Nooka store. What time is it?
A Little Bit On The Evangelion Kitty Side: With You Can (Not) Redo coming out this fall, Neon Genesis Evangelion will be teaming up with Sanrio to create various types of merchandise with Rei and Asuka Hello Kitties on them.
(Via Toysrevil)
A Little Bit on the tokidoki Update Side: Today is a good day for tokidoki fans. The Porcino vinyl toy is now available for $13. Plus, they just announced a partnership with Sanrio and 7-Eleven in Hong Kong. 7-Eleven stores will sell eight tokidoki x Hello Kitty mini-figures / zipper pulls this month and next month, six more holiday-related figures, and seven color variants. Like I said, good day.
A Little Bit On The Hello Kitty Side: The December issue of Elle Taiwan features Hello Kitty as the cover model.
(Via Thaeger)
While not as “WTF!?” inducing as the announcement of Hello Kitty x Street Fighter, we certainly didn’t see this one coming. Sanrio and Toei have signed up to do crossovers on around 20 different licenses and create over 300 pieces of mash-up merch starting this November.
I feel like this is a sign of some biblical end-of-days shit on the horizon.
(via FreshnessMag)
Hello Kitty x Street Fighter (we shit you not).
Street Fighter series producer Yoshinori Ono showed off an image of Hello Kitty dressed as the boulder-thighed Chun Li (Note: NOT the image above. That’s by Karen Hallion.)during the Street Fighter x Tekken panel at SDCC. Co-branded Capcom x Sanrio merch will hit stores this fall. Hopefully a game will come out of this, but Capcom would probably just cancel it in the middle of development and blame it on the fans.
For the Ladies: These Hello Kitty glasses are available from GuiltyFreeCandy on Etsy, come in a variety of colors, and you can even pick what color bow you want! “But I have 20/20 vision!” No problemo, chick-a-dee! Just get some Hello Kitty contact lenses and you’re golden!
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(via Hello Kitty Hell)
Dailg Graffiti: This Hello Kitty Stormtrooper seems pretty bummed about the Death Star ‘splosion in this Star Wars graffiti spotted by nite-owl.
Check out the Daily Graffiti Archives for more geektastic street art!
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This twisted take on Hello Kitty comes from Berk Ozturk. You can see more of his demented creatures HERE.
