How cool is that?! A museum full of big toys, small toys and more toys!

A few weeks ago, Miss Tan and I visited the MINT (Moment of Imagination and Nostalgia with Toys) Museum of Toys at 26 Seah Street. Don’t know where Seah Street is? It’s just behind Raffles Hotel.

Har? You don’t know where Raffles Hotel is? It’s only opposite the Raffles City Shopping Centre, which is located near the City Hall MRT. And if you don’t know where City Hall MRT is, um.. I suggest you go ask someone. Haha.

Anyway, here’s how the exterior of the museum look like.

The glass facade museum is 5 storeys tall, and is ’stuck’ in between two other buildings. Looks so futuristic huh.

Visitors begin their journey from 5th floor, and slowly travel downwards until they reach the 1st floor again. Each floor has different themes; There’s the Childhood Favourites, Characters, Outer Space and Collectibles.

If you are looking for more recent toys, like Power Rangers, Pokemon, Digimon, etc, I’m afraid you will be disappointed. Most of the toys displayed there are from the 50s all the way to early 90s. Super nostalgic.

We were fortunate enough to meet Mr Chang, CEO of the museum, during our trip. When I first saw him, I thought he was just another visitor, looking around. When he saw me busy snapping pictures of the toys, he instantly turned on the lights in the glass shelves so that I could have better lighting. He didn’t even stop me from taking pictures! So nice of him. =)

He explained that all the toys in the museum at that time were only 10% of his entire collection, consisting of toys that he started collecting since he was very young, from all over the world. From time to time, he would change some of the toys in the displays so that visitors won’t be seeing the same thing all the time.

Just like an enthusiastic dad talking about his child, he was really excited to share with us exclusive information about each and every toy. It seems like all of the toys are his favourites.

Little did we know that so many toys there are actually rare collector’s items! Some of them are one and only existing toys in the world, while some cost up to a few hundred thousand dollars!

Robin and.. no Batman! If I never remember wrongly, I think this is the one and only Robin toy that shows his face.

Very rare Batman Car toys. Super valuable!

Probably the scariest Santa Claus I have ever seen.

If my photos are not enough to satisfy your ‘hunger’ and interests, I would highly recommend you to make this worthwhile trip down to the museum and see the real thing. The whole place is air-conditioned and very comfortable, with cushioned seats available on almost every floor. There’s even a cafe at the basement for you to enjoy some snacks and beverages with your family and friends.

Oh I forgot to mention, admission to this museum is… not free. Haha. Each entry for an adult costs S$10. For more information about admission charges and promotion, you can visit their website here.

Hmm.

Recently I sort of made a ‘toy’ too! Nah, it’s actually a sculpture for my sculpturing assignment. I managed to produce it from ‘nothing’ in only 6 days, and got a B+. Haha, I’m already quite satisfied!

Tada!

If you are wondering what this is, it’s a tanuki.

Information from wiki: Tanuki is the Japanese word for raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides). They have been part of Japanese folklore since ancient times. The legendary tanuki is reputed to be mischievous and jolly, a master of disguise and shapeshifting, but somewhat gullible and absent-minded.

Here’s a picture of how a pottery statue of a tanuki looks like in Japan.

I found this character very cute, so I decided to make a cuter version myself. Haha.

Those two large round things between his legs are his huge testicles. Please don’t go ‘eeeeee’ or what, haha. This character is really known to have those pair of unusually big testicles, and I don’t know why~

As the lighting and sky was very good on the day of submission, I camwhored my sculpture to death for about 10 minutes!

That marks the end of this post. Will be back for more updates soon. XD

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