/toy/
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/toy/ is the self-explanatory board for toys. Not the kinds of toys you'd expect 4chan to talk about, the standard kind that are usually intended for children but mostly purchased by adults with disposable income AKA childless.
/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) 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/mrades bring the /toy/ culture into /tg/.
Culture
- Drossel von Flügel
Drossel is a Disney princess robot originating in the Japanese television series Fireball, called Fireball Charming in the prequel second season, a cel-shadingless computer animated series of shorts in three seasons which feature rapid-fire Japanese puns and wordplay between her and her giant robot butler Gedächtnis (who's name she is incapable of remembering) as well as a monkey robot named Schadenfreude towards the end; English translations are notoriously difficult for Japanese comedy and as a result only youtube fan translations exist. Since a large part of the visual comedy of the show is robotic quick 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 are generally higher quality) figurines were highly poseable. This 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 fact that Drossel possibly dies in the final episode of Fireball, since humanity has been fighting a war against the robot kingdom while Drossel plays and makes jokes, a third season is confirmed; either peace with humans was possible after all or it is another prequel. Get your S3 Figma while you can...
Fireball can be seen here. Fireball Charming can be viewed here for ep 1-5, here for ep 6-10, and here for the end of the season.
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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 buying a Dorcel, or counterfeit Drossel.
Memes
- Hot Glue
To "hot glue" a figure is to apply a substance to it which makes it look like bukake (a fetish where someone is covered in semen). Some claim this to be a legitimate fetish of theirs, but to most it is just a joke which originated on /toy/ (as one can say when posting on almost any board about a new purchase, where a common refrain to things ranging from military antiques to a new car is to hot glue it.
- 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 was something between trollface and naughtyface. As a result Creepy Woody images spawned showing 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.
