Humping dogs!

...they do sit-ups too!

In the late spring, the Tokyo Toy Show was held in Odaiba. I am only now writing a post about it because the toys that were shown there are now hitting the store shelves. Toys like the Humping Dog ! The show is held every year and CScout Japan has great coverage of all the cool things at the show. Well, not all of the cool things. The CScouts must have been too busy covering all of the plastic food toys and plastic flower pots and plastic robots because they missed the Humping Dogs!

Flashback to the spring: I arrived at the Toy Show on a rainy Sunday afternoon. It seems most of the people in Japan under the age 10 were there too. But they seemed rather sedate:
Turns out that they were watching some live action show. There were several going on in different section of the convention hall. A little later on, I saw a smaller venue live action show with this yellow fellow:

Actually Machu Pichu, or whatever his name is, surprised me. I would have expected that this critter would have drawn the larger crowds at the show. I guess my frame of reference is about ten years too late! After peek-a-boo saved the day, I wandered the floor aimlessly until I came across this set of caninetastic technology. Yup. The Humping Dogs:
Actually if you click on the picture to see the larger size, rotate the picture because they were all plugged in via USB ports and acting like they were all in heat. I think it was the best toy at the show, even better than the kissing robot.

So, when I went back to Tokyu Hands (see the previous post) and heard the now familiar sound of these plastic USB dogs, I ran over and got my hands on one that hadn't yet been watching "Lady and the Tramp" nonstop for days. I also grabbed a package of Crunching Dog too, because what dog doesn't like to have six-pack abs!