Toy Haul 05/05/15 Korean Ddakji Edition!

Today's mailbag we see a little package from all the way from the home of rubber ddakji, South Korea.

Some may remember my first post, showing my curiosity and interest in these types of figures or game pieces, however you look at it, and I'm really glad to say I have my first four to share today with all of you.

These guys are from a bootleg Pokemon set, as I'm sure anyone could really notice, with characters having guns, knifes, scars, and all kinds of hilariously insane things added to the original designs.  

In the two packages I received, I was able to get Mr. Mime, Lickitongue, Meowth, and Golbat, all of which look really nice in the translucent purples, pink, and clear.

I really like these guys, even for not-for-kids-anymore bootlegs.  I've never owned any ddakji before, and really, just weeks ago, and I never even heard of them, so I think I'd be happy with just about anything.

Of course, I have no plans of turning Keshi Drop into Ddakji Drop, but I do plan on picking up some more in the future.  Let me know in the comments below, if that's something you want to me to cover when they arrive.

Thanks for dropping by, everyone!

Slam That Korean Ddakji!

Little rubber gumball minifigures weren't a hit everywhere in the world.  To a certain extent, people could argue they even had limited success here in the States as well.  They could say it was nothing compared to the popularity of TMNT, He-Man, Transformers, and the rest of the Hasbro and Mattel lot you know.  Even in neighboring countries, like South Korea, they had their own ideas with soft plastics.

They are called Ddakji (or Ttakji).  I have no idea how either are correctly pronounced, but they are rooted in a traditional tabletop game with cardboard discs.  Westerners would best recognize traditional Ddakji as something like P.O.G.S. without the metal slammers.  Kids would merely take a cardboard piece and slam it crazy-hard down on others to try to flip them over.

Alternatively, rubber Ddakji found themselves on toy shelves as well, replacing the small thin discs for large, hand-size, rubber cut-outs of popular characters, with the exact same rules: whack your opponents Ddakji so hard with your Ddakji that theirs flips and lands on the opposite side.

I'm personally drawn into these guys, but then again, virtually anything neon, transparent, glittered, and slug-casted will always know how to get my wallet lighter.  Although I don't have the budget into being a serious Ddakji collector, I would love to have a a good amount around, if nothing else than to have a few drunk Ddakji games with friends.

I just recently learned of their existence and currently in the works of picking up some.  I'll do a hands-on review in the future when I get to slam them around myself, maybe even intoxicated.