/toy/

The board for people with a spare $700 to spend on plastic crack, but not enough time to assemble and paint 500 one-inch tall dudes.

/toy/ is the board for toys. Not the kinds of toys you'd expect 4chan to talk about, the standard kind that parents buy for their children. /toy/ also likes to talk about DIY model kits and artistic (or "artistic") figurines from brands like Figma, Revoltech, and Nendoroid.

/toy/ is known for being among the more professional and down to earth boards on 4chan, a category it also shares with /ck/.

Since /toy/ generally doesn't have a lot of overlap with /tg/ (Warhammer 40000 figures were made once, over a decade ago... (and are again) https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/05/10/bandai-and-warhammer4-our-powers-combinedgw-homepage-post-2/) the crossposting is minimal, although there's a crossover group of posters who are fans of model kits that swap techniques with fa/tg/uys. Also, /tg/ fucking loves Lego. /co/ on the other hand is very closely tied to /toy/, so crossboarding /co/mmrades bring the /toy/ culture into /tg/.

Culture

• Transformers: Transformers is to /toy/ what Warhammer 40000 is to /tg/. The fastest moving threads, with many offshot threads at any given time.

• Drossel von Flügel

Drossel is a Disney princess robot originating in the Japanese television series Fireball, which has two prequel seasons: Fireball Charming (2nd) and Fireball Humorous (3rd, canonically even earlier). The series consists of 3DCG shorts featuring rapid-fire Japanese puns and wordplay between Drossel and her giant robot butler Gedächtnis (who's name she is incapable of remembering). Side characters are introduced later on in the seasons, notably a monkey robot named Schadenfreude towards the end of the first season. English translations are notoriously difficult for Japanese comedy and as a result only YouTube fan translations exist for the show.

Since a large part of the visual comedy of the show is quick, robotic movements between poses (Drossel striking princess poses, Gedächtnis limited in his movement stuck just trying to remain in frame with her) the Drossel Figma (and later Chogokin, which uses die cast metal and is generally higher-quality) figurines were highly poseable. Drossel, and to a lesser extent Gedächtnis, go through visual re-designs with each season, canonically waived as "upgrades", though most fans know by now that Disney Japan wants to sell more figurines. This would be confusing and somewhat underhanded, if every Drossel version wasn't FUCKING ADORABLE and beautiful industrial design. Don't believe me? The second-season version of Drossel was so nice that Disney Japan had a pseudo-life-sized version of her made for their offices. This all lead not only to the MASSIVE popularity of the figures, but also to a great deal of lewd images of Drossel being made.

Drossel remains one of the most popular singular subjects on /toy/ (calling her the "queen of /toy/" is not an unfair statement) and authentic Drossel figures are fairly expensive. Due to the rising demand of the full-sized figures, even chibi Drossel has risen ridiculously in price. Despite the possibility that Drossel dies in the final episode of Fireball (season 1) because humanity has been fighting a war against the robot kingdom while Drossel plays and makes jokes, a third season has been confirmed. Either peace with humans was possible after all or it is another prequel. Prequelberry fields forever! Get your S3 Figma while you can...

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  Season 1 Drossel and Sancho.

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  Season 2 Drossel and Shishkaboo. Comes with hats and a motorcycle.

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  Chibi Drossel.

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  /toy/'s guide to not buying a Dorcel, or counterfeit Drossel.

• Hot Glue

To "hotglue" a figure is to apply a substance to it that resembles semen (or actually jizz on it, but nobody who posts on /toy/ has the man-meat to pull that off). Some people actually get off to this, believe it or not. If you blogpost on /toy/ about a recent purchase, no matter what it is, you will be told to hotglue it and post pics.

• Cast Off

"Cast off" is figure jargon for an otherwise static figure that has removable parts. These parts are almost universally the clothing of large-breasted anime girls. Cast off figurines are a common target of hotgluing.

• Creepy Woody

In 2006 the Kaiyodo company released a Revoltech figure of Woody from Toy Story. This Woody figure was extremely poseable, could swap out parts, and one of the two faces (which fans of the movie will recognize as Woody laughing at Buzz Lightyear) looked like something between a trollface and a rape face. /toy/soldiers both inside and outside Japan took notice and started taking pictures of "Creepy Woody" in compromising positions with pornographic anime figures, or in strange acts of violence with western figures. Or with parts swapped to form an unholy abomination of breasts, penises, and hands that even Slaanesh would do a double take on.

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